· Private foundation
Austin Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
76% of Austin Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Austin Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $57k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k9 grants · $7k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS | $50,338 |
| Canyon Brook Private School | $4,000 |
| Mothers without Borders | $800 |
| Utah Food Bank | $515 |
| Humanitarian Experience for Youth | $512 |
| Primary Childrens Hospital Foundat | $500 |
| Utah Valley Refugees | $250 |
| Operation Underground Railroad | $103 |
| Bonneville Foundation | $100 |
| Institute for Justice | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 19% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +76% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HEHumanitarian Experience Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +41%
- MWMothers Without Borders5× · 2017–2021 · $3k · revenue +144%
- OROUR RESCUE4× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- DDoyourpartorgone grant, 2018 · $1k
- RRRecreational Rehab Servicesone grant, 2017 · $250
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $206
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.
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.
USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.
Ummah relief international is a dedicated grassroots relief organization providing humanitarian services to bring help and hope to thousands of victims of natural and human disasters with quick and targeted action.
The mission of international justice mission is to protect people in poverty from violence by working with partners to rescue victims, bring criminals to justice, restore survivors to safety and strength, (see schedule o)and help local law…
To enhance the protection of rights of the displaced worldwide by the provision of advice and assistance on the application of international law, the conducting of research on the interpretation and application of international law and the…
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
To create transnational access to legal assistance for victims of labour exploitation and human trafficking so that they can seek rightful compensation, even after returning home.
We provide aid to refugees, both at home and abroad. Simply humanitarian.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
World hunger relief institute equips people to alleviate hunger through education, research, and sustainable agriculture.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Humanitarian Experience Inc ↗
- Who funds Mothers Without Borders ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UTAH VALLEY REFUGEES INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
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