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Aubrey Smith Family Foundation Inc

To support Other 501 (c) (3) orgaizations

$3.4M
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222023.

Education$1.9MInternational$900kHuman Services$450kHealth$350k
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.3M
$400,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
McCombs Business School$1,400,000
Conectar Global$400,000
Hays-Caldwell Womens Center$400,000
St Davids Foundation$400,000
Austin Samaritans$400,000
Hospice Austin$250,000
Austin Plastic Surgery Foundation$100,000
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 (FY23–23, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Hospice Austin: $250k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 5 repeat orgs$350k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$3.3M
$350k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+49%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionHealthOther

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

  • AS
    AUSTIN SAMARITANS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +36% · 78% of their budget
  • CG
    CONECTAR GLOBAL
    3× · 2022–2025 · $450k · revenue +26%
  • SD
    ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION COMMUNITY FUND
    8× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +201%

Funded once

  • HA
    HOSPICE AUSTIN
    2× · 2023–2025 · $250k · revenue +11%
  • AP
    Austin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smilesgraduated
    2× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +49%

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
Greater Austin Christian Foundation

Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.

Religion
3
Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

4
Hospice Austin Fund

The fund is a type 1 supporting organization of hospice austin. assets of the fund are used for maintenance, support, and operations of hospice austin programs.

5
San Antonio Medical Foundation

The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.

Health
6
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
7
Austin Public Library Friends Foundation

Support and strengthen austin public libraries

Education
8
Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

9
Austin Street Center

The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…

10
Austin City Lutherans

Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.

Religion
11
San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries Inc

Provides short term shelter, housing and other services for the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in bexar county.

12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Austin and the most unlike its peers is Austin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles. 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

8 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS — $1,450,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER — $450,000 · Human ServicesHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S …HOSPICE AUSTIN — $250,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE AUSTINAUSTIN SAMARITANS — $450,000 · InternationalAUSTIN SAMARITANSAustin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles — $100,000 · InternationalAustin Plastic Su…CONECTAR GLOBAL — $450,000 · ReligionCONECTAR GLOBA…ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION COMMUNITY FUND — $450,000 · HealthST DAVID'S FOU…
Other$1,450,000Human Services$700,000International$550,000Religion$450,000Health$450,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAUSTIN SAMARITANS — $450,000 over 8y, 78% of budgetCONECTAR GLOBAL — $450,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetST DAVID'S FOUNDATION COMMUNITY FUND — $450,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER — $450,000 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetHOSPICE AUSTIN — $250,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAustin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles — $100,000 over 2y, 12% 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.

  • Who funds AUSTIN SAMARITANS
  • Who funds CONECTAR GLOBAL
  • Who funds ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION COMMUNITY FUND
  • Who funds HAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER
  • Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN
  • Who funds Austin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Aubrey Smith Family Foundation Inc 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
2021222324
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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

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    How do I get to Aubrey Smith Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Aubrey Smith Family Foundation Inc 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 7 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $12k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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