· Private foundation
Austin Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN | $35,000 |
| ABARA INC | $20,000 |
| OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| INSPIRATION MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- OCOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +16%
- CLCHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES5× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +59%
- FCFAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC2× · 2020–2021 · $16k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- GCGENEVA CAMPUS CHURCH INCone grant, 2020 · $2k
AGAPE HOUSE INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -5%- LGLAKE GENEVA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +56%
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.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
Serve food to families and individuals in need.
Cedar lake ministries exist to provide a life changing environment for evangelism and spiritual growth.
The organization provides direct assistance and support services to residents of champlin, corcoran, dayton, maple grove, osseo and rogers, mn targeting households with low incomes and those faced with financial crisis.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Christian day school with pre-k thru 12
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Religious preschool and daycare services
Lakelight Institute equips Christians with timeless wisdom for modern life.
Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith Christian School Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Day Women's Clinic Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 21 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 OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ABARA INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS WORLD IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY WOMEN'S CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE STREET MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CLAPHAM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BIG FOOT EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Kunes Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Family 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.
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.
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