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Vaughan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO | $15,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK | $7,500 |
| ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| CHRISTUS SANTA ROSA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| MUSEUM OF BIG BEND- SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERISTY | $3,500 |
| BAMC FISHER HOUSE | $3,000 |
| THE WITTE MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| UTSA DEAN'S FUND FOR THE COLLEGE OF SCIENCES | $3,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL CENTER OPERATING FUND | $3,000 |
| TRANSPLANTS FOR CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - MCDONALD OBSERVATORY | $2,000 |
| ACORN SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| THE SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against -96% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $69k · revenue +6%
- SASAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +18%
- AHALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF BIG BEND- SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $3k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TECAS AT SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2020 · $3k
- SSSYMPHONY SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -96%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.
To engage our alumni in activities that will advance utsa as a top-tier institution. our focus is to deliver value-added services and events where our alumni can connect with each other, with current students and/or with the university. we…
The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.
The San Antonio Museum of Art brings people together with art by collecting, preserving, and presenting significant works of art representing a broad range of history and cultures, advancing human connection and understanding, and…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.
To develop and enhance the international trade-related economic development of the san antonio area through foreign investment, trade development, and advocacy.
The mission of Southwest Winners Foundation is to provide an adaptive and effective learning environment that prepares students for success in the workplace and/or college.
The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Orchestras of San Antonio and the most unlike its peers is Brackenridge Park Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds Brackenridge Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Family Service Association of San Antonio Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRANSPLANT ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · San Antonio Area Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Pat & Tom Frost Foundation F0731600 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Vaughan Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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