Barrett Family Foundation
San Antonio, TX · EIN 47-4490086. Reported 76 grants totalling $797,786 to 48 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Barrett Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $750 and $10,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $125,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tobin Center | San Antonio, TX | $213,456 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Mary's University | San Antonio, TX | $175,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Benedictine Sisters | Boerne, TX | $65,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| University of Dayton | Dayton, OH | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alamo Colleges Foundation | San Antonio, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Christus Santa Rosa | San Antonio, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Saint Mary's University | San Antonio, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sacred Heart Church | San Antonio, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jewish Federation of San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Marys University | San Antonio, TX | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hispanic Sports Foundation for Education | San Antonio, TX | $15,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Eohsj Southwestern Lieutenancy | Houston, TX | $12,260 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Rey Feo Consejo Education Foundation | San Antonio, TX | $11,750 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Saisd Foundation | San Antonio, TX | $11,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rey Feo Consejo Educational Foundation | San Antonio, TX | $10,580 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Arboretum San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Archdiocese of San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way | San Antonio, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rey Feo Scholarship Fund | San Antonio, TX | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Las Misiones | San Antonio, TX | $7,625 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Historic Neighborhoods Development Corp | San Antonio, TX | $7,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Main Plaza Conservancy | San Antonio, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church | San Antonio, TX | $7,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Christus Santa Rosa Friends Foundation | San Antonio, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Christus Santa Rosa Foundation | San Antonio, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Larry Kurth for Rey Feo Rey Feo 74 | San Antonio, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Morgan's Inclusion Initiative | San Antonio, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rey Feo Lxxii Thomas Aguillon | San Antonio, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Robb School Memorial Fund | Austin, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Daughters of Mary Help of Christians | New Rochellle, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Klrn | San Antonio, TX | $3,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lo Bello Womens Association | San Antonio, TX | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Antonio Queen of Soul | San Antonio, TN | $1,600 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Leukemia & Lymphoma Society | San Antonio, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Manela Lopez Rey Feo Scholarship Fund | San Antonio, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Opera San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Southwest School of Art | San Antonio, TX | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Utsa | San Antonio, TX | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| San Antonio Art League | San Antonio, TX | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cheer-Riffic Techniques | San Antonio, TX | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Doseum | San Antonio, TX | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St John the Evangelist | San Antonio, TX | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Texas at San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| San Antonio Botanical Garden | San Antonio, TX | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Todays Catholic | San Antonio, TX | $265 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Irreverent Warriors Inc | Leander, TX | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Thrivewell Cancer Foundation | San Antonio, TX | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Cleveland, OH | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
12 of 48 (25%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 42%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Tobin Center
PROMOTE A DIVERSE RANGE OF CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC EXPERIENCES TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE - Friends of Christus Santa Rosa
COMMUNITY SUPPORT TO SUPPORT MEDICAL SOCIETY - Alamo Colleges Foundation
SUPPORTING ART STUDENTS WITHIN ALAMO COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO ENGAGE IN CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN MEXICO - Main Plaza Conservancy
RESTORING HISTORIC DOWNTOWN SAN ANTONIO - Historic Neighborhoods Development Corp
RESTORATION OF THE HISTORIC EAST SIDE OF SAN ANTONIO - Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
TO SUPPORT MEDICAL SOCIETY
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 19 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 18 | $179,750 | $4,500 |
| 2022 | 18 | $88,650 | $3,000 |
| 2023 | 12 | $93,645 | $2,625 |
| 2024 | 14 | $163,821 | $3,750 |
| 2025 | 14 | $271,920 | $1,800 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
95% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Barrett Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 12818 Vista Del Norte Bldg 3, San Antonio, TX, 78216. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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