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Aragona Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$328k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Food & Nutrition$520kEducation$497kHealth$228kCommunity Improvement$115kCivil Rights$100kPhilanthropy$66kPublic Safety & Disaster$52kArts & Culture$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $287k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES$125,000
ADE FOUNDATION$60,000
CORDONATE$52,000
HAND TO HOLD$50,000
ALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY$25,000
LIVESTRONG$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ST THERESA'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $1k → 13%DASVANDH NETWORK: $20k → 16%HAND TO HOLD: $50k → 10%HAND TO HOLD: $21k → 10%HAND TO HOLD: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 10 repeat orgs$300k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$1.4M
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+16%

Still filing today

70%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthReligionCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • C
    CODE2COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +411%
  • HT
    HAND TO HOLD
    3× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +72%
  • TL
    The Livestrong Foundation
    2× · 2021–2022 · $70k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • FC
    FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +61%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS CENTRAL TEXAS
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • SS
    Southern Smoke Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -64%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Raise Texas

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…

Human Services
4
Integrated Care Collaboration

ICC (dba Connxus) is a nonprofit alliance of health care providers in Central Texas dedicated to collecting, analyzing and sharing health information to improve healthcare quality and cost efficiency across the continuum of care.

Health
5
Connectability

ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.

Human Services
6
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
7
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
8
Community Information Now

Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.

Community Improvement
9
Cook Children's Health Plan

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
10
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
11
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
12
Eqtx Equality Texas Foundation

EQTX Equality Texas Foundation works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Texans through education, community organizing, and collaboration.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Capital and the most unlike its peers is Cordonate. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $500,000 · ReligionMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INCPRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · OtherPRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN — $90,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $30,000 · OtherCORDONATE — $52,000 · OtherCORDONATEMISSION CAPITAL — $40,000 · OtherMISSION CAPITALFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC — $25,000 · Other+10 more — $104,500 · Other+10 moreALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY — $100,000 · Human ServicesALLIES AGAINS…HAND TO HOLD — $74,981 · Human ServicesHAND TO HOLDDASVANDH NETWORK — $20,000 · Human ServicesDASVANDH NETW…+1 more — $1,058 · Human ServicesThe Livestrong Foundation — $70,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $21,000 · PhilanthropyA GLIMMER OF HOPE FOUNDATION AUSTIN — $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE INVICTUS FUND NV — $5,000 · PhilanthropyJUST COMMUNITY INC — $75,000 · Community ImprovementCODE2COLLEGE — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentA D E FOUNDATION — $60,000 · HealthTHE CHAMP FOUNDATION — $12,000 · Health
Religion$500,000Other$641,500Human Services$196,039Philanthropy$116,000Community Improvement$75,000Youth Development$75,000Health$72,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $500,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY — $100,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetJUST COMMUNITY INC — $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCODE2COLLEGE — $75,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetHAND TO HOLD — $74,981 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetThe Livestrong Foundation — $70,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetA D E FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetCORDONATE — $52,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMISSION CAPITAL — $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Smoke Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDASVANDH NETWORK — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetA GLIMMER OF HOPE FOUNDATION AUSTIN — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CHAMP FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INVICTUS FUND NV — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $1,058 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Philanthropitch · United Way Worldwide · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Aragona Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Aragona Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Aragona Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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