· Private foundation
A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $299k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAND TOGETHER TRUST | $352,000 |
| MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES | $332,500 |
| SUNRISE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $261,000 |
| THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| ENDING COMMUNITY HOMELESSNESS COALITION | $75,000 |
| SAFE ALLIANCE | $52,500 |
| CANDLELIGHT RANCH | $48,250 |
| SAINT LOUISE HOUSE | $25,000 |
| CASA MARIANELLA | $25,000 |
| EL BUEN SAMARITANO | $25,000 |
| THE SETTLEMENT HOME FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| KEEP AUSTIN FED | $25,000 |
| LIFEWORKS | $25,000 |
| STREET YOUTH MINISTRY | $20,500 |
| AUSTIN ANGELS | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 91% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MLMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC6× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +94%
- TOTHE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $735k · revenue ×15
- HUHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2022 · $358k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- JCJUST COMMUNITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $51k · revenue +69%
- EYEcoRise Youth Innovationsgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +46%
- EYE4 YOUTH INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +93%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.
ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.
Engage in building procted to provide emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent housing while offering job skills training and support to help residents move toward self-sufficiency.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
Teen and Family Services Austin provides counseling and education on an individual as well as group basis to provide support to parents and teens who are coping with teen high risk behavior.
Austin Justice Coalition educates, organizes, and empowers communities in Austin to build racial equity and dismantle systems of oppression through advocacy, policy change, and community programs.
The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…
To increase the collective impact of our member organization on improving education economic development outcomes within the Austin Community.
To provide research, education and advocacy related to affordable housing
Austin together enables sustained collaborations that strengthen the nonprofit community to create better outcomes for central texans through our unique grant and community engagement model.
To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…
Any baby can, an austin-based nonprofit, partners with parents so children reach their full potential. with programs that meet clients where they are at home, work or school any baby can provides in-home therapy, parent education, mental…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saffron Trust Womens Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 165 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ending Community Homelessness Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA MARIANELLA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds VINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Table of Grace Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFFRON TRUST WOMENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOSTER VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CODE2COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds African American Youth Harvest Foundation ↗
- Who funds MISSION ACCOMPLISHED ↗
- Who funds HUNGRY SOULS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KEEP AUSTIN FED ↗
- Who funds LATINITAS INC ↗
- Who funds JUST COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SETTLEMENT CLUB ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPITCH ↗
- Who funds EcoRise Youth Innovations ↗
- Who funds E4 YOUTH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SENIOR ACCESS TX ↗
- Who funds EXCELLENCE AND ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Our Shared Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR RECOVERY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Better Business Bureau · The Moody Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Ecg Foundation · Donald D Hammill Foundation · Impact Austin Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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