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Aubrey Smith Family Foundation Inc

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

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Austin Samaritans$400,000
Hays-Caldwell Womens Center$400,000
St Davids Foundation$400,000
Hospice Austin$250,000
Austin Plastic Surgery Foundation$100,000
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 (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 its 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
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+47%
+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
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

  • AS
    AUSTIN SAMARITANS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +38% · 78% of their budget
  • CG
    CONECTAR GLOBAL
    3× · 2022–2025 · $450k · revenue +47%
  • SD
    ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION COMMUNITY FUND
    8× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +201%

Funded once

  • HA
    HOSPICE AUSTINgraduated
    2× · 2023–2025 · $250k · revenue +30%
  • AP
    Austin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smilesgraduated
    2× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +49%
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
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.

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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

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Austin; 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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

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

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 Aubrey Smith Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aubrey Smith Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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, FY20–24
    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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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