· Public charity
Austin Coming Together
To increase the collective impact of our member organization on improving education economic development outcomes within the Austin Community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $244k
- $250k+1 grant · $7.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation | $7,038,121 |
| Jehovah Jireh #1 Outreach Ministry | $150,390 |
| Forty Acres Fresh Market LLC | $94,080 |
| One Earth Collective | $23,550 |
| Austin Community Food Co-OP | $12,919 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $7.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ACAustin Childcare Providers Network5× · 2019–2023 · $422k · revenue +561% · 46% of their budget
- WHWESTSIDE HEALTH AUTHORITY2× · 2021–2022 · $270k · revenue +155%
- BIBUILD INC5× · 2019–2023 · $178k · revenue +332%
Funded once
- OPOAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -26%
- TPTHE PREVENTION PARTNERSHIP INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +80%
- CSCATALYST SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Chicago vibrant neighborhoods collective (cvnc) works to build healthy, vibrant communities in historically disinvested neighborhoods by strengthening small and medium homegrown community-based organizations (cbos) with a suite of tools,…
The center provides young adults in the austin district and other areas of chicago with the basic education necessary to increase the employability of those who have dropped out of the standard school system.
Together chicago exists to be a catalyst for lasting change by reducing gun violence and increasing thriving communities in our city. we catalyze faith, business, community, and government leaders to inspire hope and affect peace and…
Community Desk Chicago ("the Desk") is an Illinois 501 (C)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to advance equitable economic prosperity in collaboration with historically under-resourced communities. The Organization serves as a help desk and…
To realize a more equitable and inclusive economy by advancing innovative workforce solutions that equip local residents with the skills and resources to access high-growth employment opportunities in tech and other rapidly growing fields…
The Alliance of the SouthEast (ASE) builds the capacity of leaders, organizers, and associations that carry out community and social change. We envision a powerful grassroots base that impacts decision makers and wins real improvements in…
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
To inspire, equip and empower urban youth to develop a godly character, to reach their full potential and to transform lives and communities on the west side of chicago.
Enlace Chicago convenes, organizes, and builds the capacity of little village stakeholders to confront systemic inequities and barriers to economic and social access. Enlace Chicago is dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives…
To strengthen communities through educational dialogue, leadership development, emotional resilience, and intercultural competence programs that help people bridge differences and build trust.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oak Park Regional Housing Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 76% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ASPIRE CENTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP ↗
- Who funds Austin Childcare Providers Network ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE HEALTH AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds JEHOVAH JIREH #1 OUTREACH MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds WHAT ABOUT US CHARITABLE ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds Institute for Nonviolence Chicago ↗
- Who funds JANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE FKA CENTER FOR LABOR AND COMMUN ↗
- Who funds OAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PREVENTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ONE EARTH COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds HELPING OUR PEOPLE EXCEL COMMUNITY DEVEL ↗
- Who funds Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE FORWARD ↗
- Who funds BETHEL NEW LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Austin Coming Together ↗
- Who funds CATALYST SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST AUSTIN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHANGING COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds IFF ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good
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 Austin Coming Together 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.
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.
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