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Woods 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 $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $328k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Girls Inc San Antonio | $117,643 |
| JEWISH SENIOR CITIZENS OF SAN ANTONIO | $110,000 |
| ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FREDERICKSBURG BIBLE CHURCH | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SHELTER | $30,000 |
| UT HEALTH SAN ANTONIO | $25,000 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD | $20,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER | $20,000 |
| THRU PROJECT | $10,000 |
| Blood and Tissue Foundation | $10,000 |
| ISRAEL AM | $10,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| 1 W 54TH ST FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UTSA | $500 |
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 (FY20–24, $193k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SAN ANTONIO2× · 2022–2024 · $143k · revenue -4%
- JSJEWISH SENIOR CITIZENS OF SAN ANTONIO2× · 2023–2024 · $115k
- ANADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2021 · $25k
- TSTexas State Universityone grant, 2022 · $25k
- LLLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF TXone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
Provides short term shelter, housing and other services for the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in bexar county.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…
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.
She Is Safe prevents, rescues and restores women and girls from abuse and exploitation in high risk communities across the globe, equipping them to build lives of freedom and faith for a strong future. We accomplish our work in partnership…
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.
The montessori school of san antonio (mssa) guides children to be passionate learners, independent thinkers, and engaged citizens. through the guiding principles of montessori curriculum and the school culture, children develop critical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Our Daily Bread Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 25 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 GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds THRU PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Respite Care of San Antonio Inc ↗
- Who funds RBC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART ↗
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: San Antonio Area Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Nustar Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Woods 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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