About Greehey Family Foundation
The Greehey Family Foundation gives heavily in San Antonio, with a clear emphasis on healthcare, children’s services, and local community safety-net organizations. Its largest grants support major medical institutions and capital campaigns, while recurring pledges suggest long-term relationships with a small set of trusted grantees rather than broad, transactional giving. The foundation also backs education and youth development, with a noticeable mix of faith-based, civic, and social service organizations across the city.
Focus Areas
San Antonio Health Systems and Hospital Capital CampaignsChildren’s Mental Health and Bereavement ServicesYouth Education, Scholarships, and School SupportHomelessness and Emergency Shelter Services in Bexar CountyFaith-Based Human Services and Community CharitiesMilitary and Veteran Support in San Antonio
Giving Approach
Concentrated giving with many repeat grantees and multi-year pledges; a handful of seven-figure and six-figure commitments anchor the portfolio, supplemented by targeted mid-size grants to local service organizations and institutions.
Notable grantees: University Health System Foundation, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, KIPP Texas Public Schools, Meadows Mental Health Institute, Haven For Hope Of Bexar County
About Greehey Family Foundation
The Greehey Family Foundation’s recorded giving is built around a single payee and large, flexible contributions: three grants totaling $23,653,515, each listed as a general charitable contribution to “See Attachment A.” That pattern points to a foundation that channels significant support through one recipient rather than distributing many smaller awards across a wide slate of nonprofits. In the recent grants data, the same recipient appears in 2023, 2024, and 2025, showing a repeated funding relationship over multiple years. The foundation’s public grant programs add more context for how that support is meant to function. It offers spring and fall cycles, with a primary emphasis on nonprofit organizations serving Bexar County and the greater San Antonio area. Program descriptions point to health and human services, education, community support, homelessness and housing, mental health and addiction, children and youth, senior services, and faith-based or civic community needs. Across the dataset, every recorded grant goes to Texas recipients, and the foundation’s giving is local in scope.
What Greehey Family Foundation Funds
Several program areas appear repeatedly in the foundation’s grant descriptions. In health and human services, the foundation says it funds nonprofit work that improves the lives of Bexar County residents and surrounding areas, including support for people facing hardship. Education is another stated area, alongside community support initiatives. One program description notes support for programs that strengthen families, uplift youth, and care for the elderly, which places children, families, and older adults within the foundation’s stated community priorities. Housing and homelessness also appear across the grant program summaries, as does mental health and addiction in the biannual competitive program. The foundation also describes support for civic, cultural, and faith-based initiatives in its general grantmaking language, showing that its community-support category extends beyond direct human-services work.
How Greehey Family Foundation Gives
The grant-size distribution is tightly clustered at the multi-million-dollar level: p25 is $8,054,206, median is $8,298,442, and p75 is $8,542,678. That narrow spread matches the recent grant record, where each award is a very large general charitable contribution rather than a small project grant. The pattern is recurring across years, with recorded grants in 2023, 2024, and 2025 to the same recipient listed as “See Attachment A.” The foundation is a family foundation, and the available programs show both unsolicited and non-unsolicited grant channels. Several program descriptions also say the foundation reviews applications twice yearly, with spring and fall cycles, indicating a biannual cadence for parts of its grantmaking.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$7.1M
Total Assets
$173.5M
Total Revenue
$18.5M
Total Expenses
$8.8M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $25K, with a median of $15K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$15K
75th Percentile
$25K
Geographic Reach
Local9 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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