Texas · Nonprofit
SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC
SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $549,540 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($142,040). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $990k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $550k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What San Antonio Festival of Books Inc does
Mission
The san antonio book festival unites readers and writers in a celebration of ideas, books, libraries, and literary culture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The San Antonio Book Festival celebrates national and local authors and their contributions to the culture of literacy, ideas, and imagination. The free, day-long event is a gift to visitors and the citizens of San Antonio, bringing books to life through author presentations, innovative panel discussions, and book sales and signings. Also included in this fun day of literary entertainment are family activities such as children's theater performances, a technology area, interactive play and art stations, and a selection of the city's famous food trucks. SABF generates more than $1 million for the city's economy.
$703,770 spent90% of program spendingAuthors in Schools is the year-round annual educational outreach program of the San Antonio Book Festival that pairs award-winning authors with underserved, low-income schools in our partner school districts to deliver presentations to hundreds of students, tell funny stories, share personal journeys, and describe the process of writing their books. All students in attendance receive a free, signed copy of the author's book to take home. Making a personal connection with an author can be the motivation kids need to jump start their imagination with books.
$78,104 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $781,874.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $1.7M (+16%).
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 41% · 2021 49% · 2022 43% · 2023 39% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Charles Parrish
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $70k → $142k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC’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
SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
68% 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 SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 43% · 2022 29% · 2023 28% — 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
63% of SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC'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 $205k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $345k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC?
- SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $549,540 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($142,040). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $549,540 in grants to SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $142,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 12 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