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William & Salome McAllen Scanlan Foundation at a glance

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William & Salome McAllen Scanlan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$370k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.2MArts & Culture$663kHousing & Shelter$379kEnvironment$176kHealth$169kRecreation & Sports$140kCivil Rights$140kFood & Nutrition$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$775k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL$100,000
MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY$100,000
ST EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY$30,000
SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF INCARNATE WORD$25,000
SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
HEADWATERS AT INCARNATE WORD$20,000
KLRN$19,968
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UVALDE CISD MOVING FORWARD FOUNDATION: $25k → 25%MISSION ROAD DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
VA
MD
NM
TN
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 24 repeat orgs$623k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
32

Total granted

$3.3M
$523k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+40%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TU
    Trinity University
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +83%
  • MP
    MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $314k · revenue +215%
  • AP
    ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • SA
    San Antonio Public Library
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +15%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
2
Uatx

Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…

Education
3
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
4
San Antonio Medical Foundation

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.

Health
5
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…

Arts & Culture
6
University of Texas At San Antonio Alumni Association

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…

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7
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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9
San Antonio Area Foundation

To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.

Philanthropy
10
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
11
San Antonio Teachers Council

Represent public education employees in labor related matters, to include matters specific to wages, hours, and thier condition of employment.

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12
Greater Satx

The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of the Incarnate Word; the most unlike its peers is The William Alanson White Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 57 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
26/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Trinity University: $1,169,035 · EducationTrinity UniversitySt Edwards University: $120,000 · EducationSt Edwards UniversityTeach for America Inc: $100,000 · EducationTeach for America IncUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $100,000 · EducationUniversity of the Incarnate Word+3 more: $37,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINA SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINA SCHOOL OF ART…UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLEGE OF A…THE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherTHE RIO GRANDE SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN: $75,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDENCHILDREN'S REHABILITATION INSTITUTE TELETON USA: $75,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S REHABILITATION INSTITUTE…ACLU FOUNDATION OF NEW MEXICO: $70,000 · OtherACLU FOUNDATION OF NEW MEXICOARMY RESIDENCE COMMUNITY: $50,000 · OtherTHE UNIV OF TX HEALTH SCIENCE CTR OF SA: $42,500 · Other+22 more: $335,497 · Other+22 moreALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $149,776 · Arts & CultureALAMO PUBLIC TELECO…Witte Museum: $110,500 · Arts & CultureWitte MuseumTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PUBLIC RADIOSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC …DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC: $68,000 · Arts & CultureDOCUMENTARY EDUCATI…SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO FESTIVA…SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $41,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM …San Antonio Report: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $19,750 · Arts & CultureMAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY: $313,557 · Housing & ShelterMAIN PLAZ…Haven for Hope of Bexar County: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHeadwaters at Incarnate Word Inc: $75,000 · Crime & LegalACLU Foundation of Texas Inc: $70,000 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL (: $25,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · Health
Education$1,526,035Other$1,247,997Arts & Culture$669,026Housing & Shelter$328,557Crime & Legal$75,000Civil Rights$70,000Health$50,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrinity University: $1,169,035 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY: $313,557 over 7y, 22% of budgetALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $149,776 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSt Edwards University: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWitte Museum: $110,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $100,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetHeadwaters at Incarnate Word Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetACLU Foundation of Texas Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC: $68,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $41,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSan Antonio Report: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL (: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDINBURG DANCE THEATRE: $6,250 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe William Alanson White Institute: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMISSION ROAD DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO-MEXICAN FRIENDSHIP COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Trinity University ↗
  • Who funds MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN ↗
  • Who funds St Edwards University ↗
  • Who funds Witte Museum ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds THE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Headwaters at Incarnate Word Inc ↗
  • Who funds ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds San Antonio Report ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL ( ↗
  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Haven for Hope of Bexar County ↗

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.

Faye L & William L Co…Hixon Family Foundati…Charitable Foundation…Betty Stieren Kelso F…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Elizabeth Huth Coates…San Antonio Area Foun…80-20 FoundationJack and Doris Smothe…Pryor Myra Stafford C…The Nancy Wood Moorma…Impetus Foundation
Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable FoundationTX26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Hixon Family Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · San Antonio Area Foundation · 80-20 Foundation · Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · The Nancy Wood Moorman Foundation · Impetus Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William & Salome McAllen Scanlan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William & Salome McAllen Scanlan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Documentary Educational Resources Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to William & Salome McAllen Scanlan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to William & Salome McAllen Scanlan Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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