How much did Austin Coming Together grant in FY2023?

Human Services$715kHousing & Shelter$345kEmployment$123kCrime & Legal$98kCommunity Improvement$59kEnvironment$39kYouth Development$35kEducation$11kOther$898k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

violenceguidedtrainingchicagononviolencebusiness

2021

westsidestrengthenswesthealthviolenceguidedbusiness

2022

westsidestrengthensyounghealthviolenceguidedjustice

2023

guidedviolencejusticenonviolence

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k8 grants · $159k
$50k–250k3 grants · $350k

$20,550

Median grant

States reached

$6.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

Jehovah Jireh #1 Outreach Ministry$150,390
Austin Childcare Providers' Network$117,132
Forty Acres Fresh Market LLC$82,000
BUILD Inc$38,500
South Austin Neighborhood Association$24,665
One Earth Collective$20,550
Manufacturing Renaissance (MR)$16,891
Institute for Nonviolence Chicago$16,500
St Joseph Services$15,000
Jane Addams Resource Corporation (JARC)$14,000
New Moms Inc$12,500
IFF Real Estate Services LLC$5,133

02The need

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 (FY19–23, $715k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.0M · 17 repeat orgs$338k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%

+44%

Still filing today

82%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementEmploymentEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther

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

AC
Austin Childcare Providers' Network
5× · 2019–2023 · $422k · revenue +271% · 46% of their budget
WH
Westside Health Authority
2× · 2021–2022 · $270k · revenue +306%
BI
BUILD Inc
5× · 2019–2023 · $178k · revenue +572%

Funded once

OP
Oak Park Regional Housing Center
one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +7%
TP
The Prevention Partnershipgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +481%
CS
Catalyst Schoolsgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +44%

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.

Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights

Urban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc

Urban Neighborhood Initiatives, Inc. (UNI) engages in comprehensive action to address human and community development. Individuals and families are enthused as they prosper and become encouraged to invest in their homes and communities.

Human Services

Open Communities

Fair housing testing and enforcement; hud certified counseling services for renters and homeowners; advocacy for fair and inclusive housing in north and northwest suburban chicago.

Housing & Shelter

Opportunity Council

Opportunity Council helps people improve their lives through education, support, and direct assistance while advocating for just and equitable communities.

Human Services

Together for West Philadelphia

Together for West Philadelphia partners with healthcare systems community-based organizations, academic institutions, and public and private stakeholders to achieve equitable health outcomes for West Philadelphians.

Unclassified

Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers

Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers guides low-income urban youth in Chicago along pathways of success. Our proven enrichment programs embrace the dignity of the person by focusing on academic excellence, virtue development, individual…

Education

South East Chicago Commission

SECC collaborates with other University of Chicago businesses, and organizations to foster a spirit of community and to enhance ongoing quality of life across neighborhoods it serves.

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Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp

To provide job skills, adult education and counseling to employed and unemployed workers.

Education

Chicago Learning Exchange

The Chicago Learning Exchange (CLX) is a nonprofit organization that connects and supports our city's array of out-of-school time youth-focused organizations in order to prepare youth, youth workers, and our city for the future.

Youth Development

California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified

Local Economic and Employment

North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.

Employment

Near North Development Corporation

Inner-city housing and economic development focusing on low-income individuals.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Our People Excel Community Devel and the most unlike its peers is Westside Health Authority. 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/25

the rest of the field

14%

4,320/31,485

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.

05the grantee network

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/20

Grantees still filing

16/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$943,981Human Services$714,729Housing & Shelter$344,693Employment$123,000Crime & Legal$98,000Community Improvement$58,751Environment$38,510

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.

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.

United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL30× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Oak Park-River Forest · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Jehovah Jireh #1 Outreach Ministry.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~20 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 611681204 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Jehovah Jireh #1 Outreach Ministry, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 20 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 46% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Austin Coming Together?

Find your warmest path to Austin Coming Together through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Austin Coming Together

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Austin Coming Together?

More from the funding graph

Austin Coming Together

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Austin Coming Together?

More from the funding graph