Texas · Nonprofit
BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY
BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,913 to it, the largest being CHILD'S PLAY ($195,463). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $385k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $213k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Blue Bird Auxiliary does
Mission
To provide financial support to various programs, research and education for the direct benefit of patients and/or the families of the methodist hospitals at the medical center, san antonio. See schedule oprovide financial support for research, education and services that directly benefit medically challenged children and adults in san antonio and the surrounding area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Blue Bird Auxiliary [blue bird] provides services to the patients of methodist healthcare system in san antonio and to their families and guests. Blue bird also provides financial support to the various hospital programs that directly benefit patients and/or their families.blue bird provides financial support or grants to community organizations for research, education and services that directly benefit medically challenged children and adults in san antonio and the surrounding area.
$206,812 spentof which $35,200 as grants$248,778 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $206,812.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.9M to $2.3M (+22%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
1% of BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $65k → $7k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY?
- BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,913 to it, the largest being CHILD'S PLAY ($195,463). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $212,913 in grants to BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY?
- CHILD'S PLAY is the largest funder on record, with $195,463 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE BIRD AUXILIARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing