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Austin Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$4.2MHealth$2.7MEducation$2.0MReligion$708kCommunity Improvement$502kYouth Development$134kPublic Safety & Disaster$115kScience & Tech$72kOther$0
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $127k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $266k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.1M
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$87M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$1,000,000
MV ADVANCEMENTS$500,000
NEWBERG DUNDEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$335,000
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST$250,000
NEWBERG DUNDEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$186,000
NEWBERG DUNDEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$170,000
JULIETTE'S HOUSE$160,000
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST$150,000
NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN CHURCH$150,000
PROVIDENCE NEWBERG HEALTH FOUNDATION$125,000
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST$100,000
YAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP$75,000
CARLTON OBSERVATORY$55,000
LOVE INC NEWBERG$50,000
YAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $800k → 11%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $250k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $365k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $210k → 11%JULIETTE'S HOUSE: $190k → 11%JULIETTE'S HOUSE: $173k → 11%JULIETTE'S HOUSE: $160k → 11%IN KIND BOXES: $6k → 8%JULIETTE'S HOUSE: $160k → 11%JULIETTE'S HOUSE: $158k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $150k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $150k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $143k → 11%YAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $125k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $120k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $100k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $100k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $100k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $100k → 11%YAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $89k → 11%YAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $89k → 11%YAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $89k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $85k → 11%YAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $75k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $68k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $67k → 11%JULIETTE'S HOUSE: $50k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $25k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $25k → 11%YAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $10k → 11%JULIETTE'S HOUSE: $9k → 11%JULIETTE'S HOUSE: $9k → 11%JULIETTE'S HOUSE: $6k → 11%JULIETTE'S HOUSE: $1k → 11%YAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $1k → 11%LOVE INC NEWBERG: $55k → 11%LOVE INC NEWBERG: $50k → 11%LOVE INC NEWBERG: $50k → 11%LOVE INC NEWBERG: $50k → 11%LOVE INC NEWBERG: $50k → 11%NEWBERG FISH EMERGENCY SERVICE: $30k → 11%LOVE INC NEWBERG: $10k → 11%NEWBERG FISH EMERGENCY SERVICE: $10k → 11%NEWBERG FISH EMERGENCY SERVICE: $500 → 11%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 38 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
18

Total granted

$9.0M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+86%

Still filing today

58%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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

  • LC
    Lutheran Community Services Northwest
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +78%
  • VG
    VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +63%
  • JH
    JULIETTE'S HOUSE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $916k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHEHALAM CULTURAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $14k
  • BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +86%
  • VT
    VALUES TO ACTION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +5%
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
Newberg Baseball

Baseball league for youth.

Youth Development
2
Newberg Early Birds Rotary Foundation

The newberg early birds rotary foundation's primary purpose is to fund projects in and around the newberg, oregon community

Human Services
3
Craig Newmark Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Newport Hospital & Health Services Foundation

We grow partnerships to support a strong hospital and healthy community for the Pend Oreille River Valley.

Health
5
Nw Furniture Bank

Nw furniture bank helps to restore hope, dignity and stability in our community by recycling donated furniture to people in need.

Human Services
6
New Ground Foundation

Provide support and resources for fostered or adopted children and their families

Human Services
7
Family Promise of Greater New Braunfels

To prevent and end homelessness for families with children and help them achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.

Human Services
8
Eclb

Every Child mobilizes community to support children and families impacted by foster care in Linn, Benton, Lincoln.

Human Services
9
New Braunfels Area Community Foundation

The new braunfels area community foundation develops and encourages a culture of philanthropy by accepting gifts, administering funds, investing assets, and making grants to charitable organizations on behalf of donors for the greater…

Community Improvement
10
Nw Childrens Foundation

To end the intergenerational cycle of child abuse, neglect and trauma.

Crime & Legal
11
New Glarus Emergency Medical Services in

Provide emergency medical services and transport to the Village of New Glarus and surrounding municipalities

Health
12
Northeast Oregon Network

Northeast Oregon Network (the Organization) is a non-profit organization established to create a healthier Oregon by reducing barriers for both residents and regional systems that support their health. The Organization fulfills its mission…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Newberg Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is In Kind Boxes. 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

38 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. 38 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
27/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lutheran Community Services Northwest: $2,068,014 · Human ServicesLutheran Community Services NorthwestJULIETTE'S HOUSE: $916,061 · Human ServicesJULIETTE'S HOUSEEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $840,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INCYAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $479,061 · Human ServicesYAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIPLOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST INC OF THE NEWBERG AREA: $265,000 · Human ServicesLOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST INC OF THE NEWBERG ARE…+2 more: $46,500 · Human ServicesNEWBERG PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1,057,237 · OtherNEWBERG PUBLIC SCHOOLSNEWBERG DUNDEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $711,800 · OtherNEWBERG DUNDEE PUBLIC SCHOOLSMV ADVANCEMENTS: $500,000 · OtherMV ADVANCEMENTSNORTHWEST CHRISTIAN (NEWBERG CHRISTIAN): $440,500 · OtherNORTHWEST CHRISTIAN (NEWBERG CHRISTIA…NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $159,000 · Other+48 more: $668,636 · Other+48 moreVIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $1,215,000 · HealthVIRGINIA GARCIA MEMOR…PROVIDENCE NEWBERG HEALTH FOUNDATION: $762,862 · HealthPROVIDENCE NEWBERG HE…+3 more: $41,000 · HealthYAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY: $100,000 · Community ImprovementREACH NORTHWEST: $55,500 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $109,700 · EducationEDWARDS VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION: $12,878 · EducationSMART READING: $10,500 · Education+3 more: $6,500 · EducationCARLTON OBSERVATORY AT EVERGREEN: $68,000 · Science & TechNewberg-Dundee Police Foundation: $59,750 · Crime & LegalYAMHILL COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE FOUNDATION: $2,623 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$4,614,636Other$3,537,173Health$2,018,862Community Improvement$160,500Education$139,578Science & Tech$68,000Crime & Legal$62,373

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest: $2,068,014 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetVIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $1,215,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetJULIETTE'S HOUSE: $916,061 over 5y, 14% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $840,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPROVIDENCE NEWBERG HEALTH FOUNDATION: $762,862 over 5y, 25% of budgetMV ADVANCEMENTS: $500,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetYAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $479,061 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST INC OF THE NEWBERG AREA: $265,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $109,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY: $100,000 over 4y, 10.0% of budgetCARLTON OBSERVATORY AT EVERGREEN: $68,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetNewberg-Dundee Police Foundation: $59,750 over 5y, 74% of budgetREACH NORTHWEST: $55,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetNEWBERG FISH EMERGENCY SERVICE: $40,500 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetVIVIAN LEE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetNEWBERG DOWNTOWN COALITION: $18,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetEDWARDS VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION: $12,878 over 2y, 17% of budgetWITH COURAGE: $11,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetNEWBERG ANIMAL SHELTER FRIENDS: $10,680 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSMART READING: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAZELS HOUSE RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND PETS HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVALUES TO ACTION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetUPWARD BOUND CAMP FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetEVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIn Kind Boxes: $6,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNEWBERG AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDUNDEE WOMANS CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetNEWBERG EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNEWBERG ROTARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLibrary Foundation of Newberg: $4,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetC S LEWIS ACADEMY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYAMHILL COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE FOUNDATION: $2,623 over 1y, 18% of budgetSEE YA LATER FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetChehalem Center Association dba Chehalem Cultural Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWBERG BOOSTER CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 Lutheran Community Services Northwest ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JULIETTE'S HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE NEWBERG HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MV ADVANCEMENTS ↗
  • Who funds YAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds LOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST INC OF THE NEWBERG AREA ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds YAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CARLTON OBSERVATORY AT EVERGREEN ↗
  • Who funds Newberg-Dundee Police Foundation ↗
  • Who funds REACH NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds NEWBERG FISH EMERGENCY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds VIVIAN LEE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEWBERG DOWNTOWN COALITION ↗
  • Who funds EDWARDS VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds WITH COURAGE ↗
  • Who funds NEWBERG ANIMAL SHELTER FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds SMART READING ↗
  • Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
  • Who funds HAZELS HOUSE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND PETS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗

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.

The Oregon Community …The Ford Family Found…Newberg Early Birds R…Hayes Family Foundati…Providence Health & S…The Roundhouse Founda…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Newberg Rotary Founda…Maybelle Clark Macdon…The Autzen FoundationThe Reser Family Foun…The Collins Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR31.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Newberg Early Birds Rotary Foundation · Hayes Family Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Oregon · The Roundhouse Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Newberg Rotary Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Autzen Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · The Collins 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 Austin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Austin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Mv Advancements: 81% of income from government
  • Yamhill Community Action Partnership: 61% of income from government
  • Upward Bound Camp for Persons With Special Ne: 30% of income from government
  • Newberg Downtown Coalition: 7% of income from government
  • Smart Reading: 3% of income from government
  • George Fox University: 2% of income from government
  • Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum: 2% of income from government
  • Newberg Animal Shelter Friends: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Austin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Austin Family Foundation 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 77 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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