Texas · Nonprofit
DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO
DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,266 to it, the largest being W G CHRISTIANSON FOUNDATION ($16,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $36k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inclocalportfolio match
- San Antonio Area Foundation Group Returnlocalportfolio match
- The Sheltering Arms Foundationshared funders
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 21% · 2023 30% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $10k → $8k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 94% · 2022 47% · 2023 81% — diversifying over time.
“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
56% of DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $16k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inclocalportfolio matchTX · funds 88 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- San Antonio Area Foundation Group Returnlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 83 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Sheltering Arms Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- George W Brackenridge Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Charter Schools Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marin Child Care Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado League of Charter Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ewing Halsell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A for Arizonaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scholar Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Building Hope Impact Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Girard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO?
- DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,266 to it, the largest being W G CHRISTIANSON FOUNDATION ($16,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $36,266 in grants to DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO?
- W G CHRISTIANSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO 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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing