· Private foundation
Amherst Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Navy SEAL Foundation Inc | $65,000 |
| Capital City Fund for Eductation | $50,000 |
| Firefly Fund | $25,000 |
| The Univesity of Texas | $5,000 |
| Inclusion Matters by Shane's Inspir | $5,000 |
| Foundation Communities Inc | $5,000 |
| Donee's under 500 - 16 total | $3,088 |
| Project Schoolhouse | $3,000 |
| The Rise School | $2,500 |
| Hurricanes Baseball Inc | $1,500 |
| Bear Hug Foundation | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Amherst Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 34% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 32%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc3× · 2019–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +97%
Feeding America3× · 2020–2023 · $170k · revenue +40%
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $115k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- DODonee's of 1K - Ft Myer Relief 2022one grant, 2022 · $150k
- TDTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -17%
- URU R OUR HOPEone grant, 2023 · $55k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
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.
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
United way for greater austin brings our community together to break economic barriers and build opportunity for all.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Aaro, a non-partisan thought leader for central texas, has worked behind the scenes on critical regional issues since 1980. the membership is an intentionally diverse group of central texas leaders drawn from business, industry, education,…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Texas 2036 identifies and advances data-driven policies that will improve lives and expand opportunities for all Texans.
Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
How this is measured
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 151 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Better Business Bureau · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Moody Foundation · United Way Worldwide · United Way for Greater Austin · The Applied Materials Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · St David's Foundation · Ecg Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Amherst Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amherst Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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