· Public charity
American Constructors Foundation
AMERICAN CONSTRUCTORS FOUNDATION is a nonprofit corporation with a focus of bringing lasting and positive impacts to communities by funding charitable and/or educational organizations, organizing and/or supporting service projects, providing educational scholarships and providing support for other opportunities that benefit our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $171,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $192,097 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,597 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AUSTIN AREA | $110,000 |
| LEANDER EDUCATION EXCELLENCE FUND | $15,000 |
| DRIPPING SPRINGS EDUCATION FND | $14,500 |
| LAKE TRAVIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BASTROP EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| TEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of American Constructors Foundation’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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY INC3× · 2020–2022 · $200k · revenue +40%
- LELEANDER EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $64k · revenue +61%
- SDST DAVID'S FOUNDATION COMMUNITY FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- ACAustin Community College Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +68%
- DVDel Valle Isd Education Foundationone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
Grants provided to teachers to fund innovative, creative, instructional projects for students and teachers and to fund scholarships in La Porte ISD schools.
To provide community-based support to the aldine independent school district in pursuit of excellence in teaching innovation in the classroom and superior learning opportunities for all students
The foundation (1) awards grants for administrators compensation (2) administers student scholarships (3) awards innovative teaching grants to the professional staff of the disd (4) honors students at award banquets.
Funds received exclusively for the support of education projects of tatum independent school district and student scholarships for those pursuing higher education.
To aid in the fulfillment of teaching and service functions of the Bryan Independent School District by providing funds and property.
Provide grant funding for ecisd students & teachers
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
The Santa Fe Texas Education Foundation CULTIVATES and NURTURES the culture of generosity in our community, IGNITES exemplary experiences for every student and teacher, and INSPIRES the achievement of lifelong success.
To provide scholarships to graduating high school students in the Frisco Independent School District. The Foundation also supports educational programs and educators in the District through Grants for Great Ideas.
The Dickinson ISD Education Foundation's mission is to ensure that all students have successful learning opportunities that help them reach their full potential and add quality throughout their lives.
Canyons School District Education Foundation works in tandem with community and business partners to build support for public schools and to advance Canyons School Districts mission to help every student become college- and career-ready…
To generate and distribute resources to provide enhancements for excellence in education to Canyon ISD, its students and staff.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Temple Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boys and Girls Clubs of Austin and Travis County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LEANDER EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DRIPPING SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lake Travis Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Austin Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds Bastrop Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Del Valle Isd Education Foundation ↗
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 · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 American Constructors 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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