· Private foundation
Vaughan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHRISTUS SANTA ROSA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| MUSEUM OF BIG BEND- SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERISTY | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| BAMC FISHER HOUSE | $3,000 |
| UTSA DEAN'S FUND FOR THE COLLEGE OF SCIENCES | $3,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| THE WITTE MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL CENTER OPERATING FUND | $3,000 |
| TRANSPLANTS FOR CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - MCDONALD OBSERVATORY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ACORN SCHOOL | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against -96% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Family Service Association of San Antonio Inc ↗
- Who funds Brackenridge Park Conservancy ↗
- 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vaughan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vaughan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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