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Aragona Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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 & CultureHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • FG
    FLATWATER GENERAL OPERATIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • AG
    A GLIMMER OF HOPE FOUNDATION AUSTIN
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -3%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Capital; 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 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. 19 of the 29 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · PhilanthropyCODE2COLLEGE: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUST COMMUNITY INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementA D E FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthTHE CHAMP FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Health
Religion$500,000Other$641,500Human Services$196,039Philanthropy$116,000Youth Development$75,000Community Improvement$75,000Health$72,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $500,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY: $100,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetCODE2COLLEGE: $75,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetJUST COMMUNITY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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 budgetA GLIMMER OF HOPE FOUNDATION AUSTIN: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDASVANDH NETWORK: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSouthern Smoke Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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
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.

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.

Austin Community Foun…St David's FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …PhilanthropitchUnited Way WorldwideJpmorgan Chase Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…Greater Houston Commu…National Philanthropi…Shell USA Company Fou…Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aragona Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aragona Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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