{"id":439684,"date":"2026-09-18T07:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439684\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T07:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:06:16","slug":"san-antonio-h-e-b-siblings-make-forbes-2026-list-of-richest-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439684\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio H-E-B siblings make Forbes’ 2026 list of richest Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two members of San Antonio\u2019s H-E-B family are once again<\/a> among the wealthiest individuals in the country, according to Forbes’ newly released<\/a> “400 Richest People In America” list.\u00a0<\/p>\n

H-E-B Chairman Charles Butt<\/a> and his sister, Eleanor Butt Crook<\/a>, both made the annual ranking of the nation\u2019s wealthiest Americans, with a combined fortune of approximately $16 billion. Butt, 88, ranked at No. 137 on this year\u2019s Forbes 400 with an estimated net worth of $11.3 billion.<\/p>\n

Crook, 94, ranks No. 367 with an estimated net worth of $4.7 billion, and is part of the same H-E-B family that has long been tied to the San Antonio-headquartered grocery chain. Although she does serve on H-E-B\u2019s board of directors, she doesn’t have a role in the company\u2019s day-to-day operations.<\/p>\n

So, where exactly does the fortune come from? Of course, the family’s H-E-B grocery empire is at the center of it all.<\/p>\n

Forbes says H-E-B has about $50 billion in annual revenue and 455 stores across Texas and Mexico. The company traces its roots to 1905, when Florence Butt \u2014 Charles and Eleanor\u2019s grandmother \u2014 founded the grocery business after her husband became ill and could no longer work.<\/p>\n

Charles Butt began working for the family business as an 8-year-old bagging groceries. He became H-E-B\u2019s chairman and CEO in 1971 before handing the CEO position to his nephew, Howard Butt III, in 2021.<\/p>\n

And the H-E-B fortune isn\u2019t the only San Antonio connection to make Forbes\u2019 list. Two other Alamo City billionaires also landed among the nation\u2019s wealthiest, including Christopher Goldsbury, No. 2,052 with an estimated $2 billion, and James Leininger, No. 2,177 with an estimated $1.9 billion.<\/p>\n

Goldsbury is the CEO of Pearl developer Silver Ventures, while Leininger founded San Antonio medical device company Kinetic Concepts.<\/p>\n

The 2026 Forbes 400 is a particularly exclusive club this year. Forbes estimates the 400 richest Americans are collectively worth a record $8 trillion, while it now takes at least $4.4 billion to make the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two members of San Antonio\u2019s H-E-B family are once again among the wealthiest individuals in the country, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-439684","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\/439684","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=439684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}