· Community foundation
Austin Community Foundation Inc
We mobilize ideas and resources to strengthen central texas.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 764 grants below total $54,696,819 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $62,818,145 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,121,326 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k123 grants · $866k
- $10k–50k427 grants · $8.3M
- $50k–250k187 grants · $19M
- $250k+27 grants · $27M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHOLE FOODS MARKET FOUNDATION | $6,075,835 |
| ONE MISSOULA CHURCH INC | $4,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (UT AUSTIN) | $3,553,300 |
| TEAM CHURCH | $2,000,000 |
| AUSTIN OPERA | $1,021,331 |
| SHALOM AUSTIN | $878,395 |
| TEXAS TRIBUNE | $808,983 |
| MERCY STREET INC | $800,000 |
| NOTLEY FOUNDATION | $712,291 |
| AUSTIN ED FUND | $694,954 |
| TEXAS ONE FUND INC (FORMERLY HORNS WITH HEART INC) | $650,000 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION (CAF) AMERICA | $624,932 |
| ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $565,500 |
| HONDURAS GOOD WORKS | $500,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE | $405,938 |
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 (FY17–24, $15.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Austin Community Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 77% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
928 repeat relationships — 538 still active in FY2024, 390 since wound down; 169 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10.0M 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
- WFWhole Foods Market Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +107% · 34% of their budget
- SASHALOM AUSTIN8× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +93%
- UWUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN8× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +66%
Funded once
- RRREDWOOD RESEARCH GROUP INCone grant, 2021 · $1.3M · revenue -100%
- WHWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -3%
- OGORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INCone grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue +5%
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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
1561 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1561 of the 1,933 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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: St David's Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin · The Moody Foundation · Donald D Hammill Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Ascension Seton · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center 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 organization Austin Community 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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.