· Private foundation
Abundant Grace Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZOE EMPOWERS | $18,000 |
| BRIDGES TO LIFE | $10,250 |
| CYPRESS CREEK CHURCH | $9,350 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,304 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,295 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,995 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| HILL COUNTRY ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
| WIMBERLEY VALLEY ARTS AND CULTURAL ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,200 |
| RIVERBEND CHURCH | $2,000 |
| WIMBERLEY COMMUNITY CIVIC CLUB | $1,435 |
| BARNABAS CONNECTION | $1,000 |
| TESPA | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
Zoe Empowers5× · 2021–2025 · $48k · revenue +42%- BTBRIDGES TO LIFE5× · 2021–2025 · $46k · revenue +2%
- HCHill Country Alliance4× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $17k
- HHOMEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
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…
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…
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
It is the mission of the Texas Immigration Law Council to protect and promote the basic rights of immigrants and refugees of all nationalities within Texas.
See Schedule OTLR works to shape policy primarily in the Texas civil justice and court system through public education, legislative advocacy and building broad public support for a fair, competent and honest judiciary as well as a fair,…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. 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 21 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 76 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 Wimberley Village Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds Zoe Empowers ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO LIFE ↗
- Who funds Hill Country Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds WIMBERLEY VALLEY ARTS AND CULTURAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CIVIC CLUB ↗
- Who funds EMERGE Fellowship ↗
- Who funds Crisis Breadbasket ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds WILDFLOWER DONOR INC ↗
- Who funds EmilyAnn Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION ↗
- Who funds RAISEUP FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds START UP KIDS CLUB ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN SPEECH LABS INC ↗
- Who funds Justice For All Immigrants ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON REVISION ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Harry L Willett Foundation C O Boyd Ryan · The Burdine Johnson Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Angell Fund Inc · Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Abundant Grace Foundation 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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