San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is asking business, foundation and philanthropic leaders to step in with multi-year funding commitments for a list of local organizations as the city faces what she described as an estimated $158 million gap in its FY 2027 budget.<\/p>\n
In a letter dated July 24, 2026, Ortiz Jones wrote that many organizations \u201chave received financial support from city taxpayers via the city\u2019s General Fund,\u201d but said, \u201cthe economic environment has changed.\u201d <\/p>\n
She asked recipients to consider \u201ca three-year funding commitment\u201d for the listed entities that \u201cmatches or exceeds what the City of San Antonio (COSA) contributed\u201d in FY 2026, with funding beginning in FY 2027.<\/p>\n
Ortiz Jones asked interested groups to contact her chief of staff, Andrew Fuentes, at andrew.fuentes@sanantonio.gov by Aug. 21, 2026.<\/p>\n
The letter listed the following outside agency contracts and City of San Antonio General Fund FY 2026 budget amounts:<\/p>\n
Avenida Guadalupe Association, $142,000.BioMed SA, $100,000.Diez y Seis de Septiembre Commission, $40,000.DreamVoice, LLC (Produces DreamWeek), $175,000.LiftFund, $500,000.Local Initiatives Support Corporation, $250,000.San Antonio Book Festival, $150,000. The letter noted the festival also receives $97,725 in Hotel Occupancy Tax.San Antonio Botanical Garden, $1,080,000.San Antonio Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission, $300,000. The letter noted the commission organizes the MLK March.San Antonio Education Partnership Scholarship & Outreach Program, $2,477,814.San Antonio Parks Foundation, $125,000.SAWS, Plumbers to People and Laterals to People Programs, $750,000.Sicl\u00f3via, $80,000.Supply SA, $200,000.U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Hiring our Heroes (Program to connect veterans, military spouses, and transitioning service members to employment), $150,000.<\/p>\n
It remains unclear how cuts would disrupt service to these programs, or if any of these programs are at risk of termination due to the budget gap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is asking business, foundation and philanthropic leaders to step in with multi-year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-385943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}