· Public charity
Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau
Promoting conventions, travel and tourism in and to the city of austin, and providing related services to convention attendees, travelers, and tourists.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRENCH LEGATION MUSEUM | $118,000 |
| HUSTON-TILLOTSON COLLEGE | $10,365 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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
- ATAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE3× · 2017–2020 · $339k · revenue +307%
- ACAustin Club3× · 2019–2022 · $138k · revenue +44%
- HUHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2021 · $28k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- PAPRESERVATION AUSTINgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $47k · revenue +511%
- BSBarton Springs Conservancyone grant, 2018 · $45k · revenue -86%
- SESt Edwards Universityone grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue -3%
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.
The conservancy is dedicated to restoring, protecting and enhancing the ecological, social and cultural vibrancy of shoal creek in austin, texas, for the people of austin by engaging the public and partnering with the community, including…
Texas Society of Architects is the voice for Texas architecture, supporting the creation of safe, beautiful, sustainable environments.
The mission of Austin Creative Alliance is to advance, connect, and celebrate Austin's arts, culture, and creative communities in order to nourish and strengthen the character, quality of life, and economic prosperity of our region.
To support the production and exhibition of art and film
Support and strengthen austin public libraries
The Texas Association of Museums strengthens the Texas museum community through collaborations, connections, professional development, and advocacy.
To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…
The Association supports the Austin History Center to achieve excellence in its efforts to serve as the collective memory of Austin and Travis County.
Austin area arts applauds and advances all arts by welcoming diverse, creative individuals to share their unique talents to inspire our community.
The Downtown Austin Parks' mission is to create a vibrant, historic, and active spaces at the hear of Austin, Texas community through quality management of public space and creative programing that is based on historic relevance of…
Fostering conservation and reuse through creativity, education, and community building.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Preservation Austin and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Deep Eddy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Austin Womans Club ↗
- Who funds Austin Club ↗
- Who funds DAUGHTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Pease Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds Barton Springs Conservancy ↗
- Who funds St Edwards University ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN AUSTIN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DEEP EDDY INC ↗
- Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc · Better Business Bureau · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Moody Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Austin Parks Foundation · Still Water Foundation · The Powell Foundation · St David's Foundation · The Summerlee Foundation · Ibm International 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 Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau 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.