· Private foundation
Alice Gist Dunaway Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $197k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RISE RESOURCE CONSORTIUM | $30,000 |
| REDEEMER CHURCH | $18,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS AMARILLO | $17,000 |
| HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| HOPE HEALS | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS LUBBOCK | $15,000 |
| CASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS | $15,000 |
| SNACK PAC 4 KIDS | $15,000 |
| LAUNCH GLOBAL | $12,000 |
| EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE | $10,000 |
| LOVE LUBBOCK TRINITY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER | $10,000 |
| TEXAR | $8,000 |
| CRU | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 12 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
- LGLAUNCH GLOBAL5× · 2019–2025 · $69k · revenue +24%
The Houston Food Bank3× · 2019–2025 · $61k · revenue +109%- MOMEALS ON WHEELS5× · 2017–2022 · $27k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- TATHE AUSTIN STONE COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $38k
- TFThe Flying Horse Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +430%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +8%
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.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Crisis center of west texas' mission is to respond, shelter, and educate to end domestic and sexual violence in west texas.
To provide shelter to abused families.
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…
Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.
ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.
To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.
The mission of hope's door new beginning center is to offer intervention and prevention services to individuals and families affected by intimate partner and family violence and to provide education programs that enhance the community's…
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Covenant house texas shelters, protects, and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, and sexually exploited youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of the South Plains Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Flying Horse Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 50 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 LAUNCH GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds TEAM KIWI INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds The Flying Horse Foundation ↗
- Who funds Hope Heals Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FAITH CITY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds TESSA ↗
- Who funds EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE ↗
- Who funds ALPINE AUTISM CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEXSAR INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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: Xcel Energy Foundation · William & Louise Mullins Foundation · Merrick Foundation · Amarillo Business Foundation · The United Way Inc · Mays Foundation · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · The Ware Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation
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 Alice Gist Dunaway 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.