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Austin Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$35k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$203kHuman Services$120kHealth$33kHousing & Shelter$26kEducation$19kCrime & Legal$8kPhilanthropy$2kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$974k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN$35,000
OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$20,000
ABARA INC$20,000
INSPIRATION MINISTRIES$10,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20k → 7%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20k → 7%AGAPE HOUSE: $1k → 10%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$403k · 9 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
11

Total granted

$403k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+14%

Still filing today

78%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • OC
    OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +16%
  • CL
    CHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES
    5× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +59%
  • FC
    FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $16k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • GC
    GENEVA CAMPUS CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • LG
    LAKE GENEVA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +56%
  • AGAPE HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +14%
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
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
2
Charis Bible College Inc

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.

Religion
3
A Christian Food Pantry Inc

Serve food to families and individuals in need.

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4
Cedar Lake Ministries

Cedar lake ministries exist to provide a life changing environment for evangelism and spiritual growth.

—
5
Cross (Christians Reaching Out in Social Services)

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.

Religion
6
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
7
Feed the Hunger Inc

Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.

—
8
Crawford Christian Academy

Christian day school with pre-k thru 12

Education
9
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
10
Agape Schools

Religious preschool and daycare services

Human Services
11
Lakelight Institute

Lakelight Institute equips Christians with timeless wisdom for modern life.

Religion
12
Welch College

Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith Christian School Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRACE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH: $160,000 · OtherGRACE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCHSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $127,375 · OtherSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDRENCHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES: $31,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES+6 more: $4,325 · OtherOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $40,000 · Human ServicesOUTREACH CO…+2 more: $1,300 · Human ServicesABARA INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterFAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $16,000 · EducationWheaton College: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationNEW DAY WOMEN'S CLINIC INC: $1,500 · HealthHOPE STREET MINISTRY INC: $500 · HealthCLAPHAM SCHOOL: $500 · HealthCHILDRENS WORLD IMPACT INC: $2,200 · PhilanthropyLAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Religion
Other$322,700Human Services$41,300Housing & Shelter$25,000Education$18,500Health$2,500Philanthropy$2,200Religion$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES: $31,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetABARA INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $16,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDRENS WORLD IMPACT INC: $2,200 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWheaton College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW DAY WOMEN'S CLINIC INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGAPE HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE STREET MINISTRY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLAPHAM SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Kunes Family Foundati…Green Bay Packers Fou…Natl Christian Charit…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Kunes Family FoundationWI19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Austin Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Austin Family Foundation Inc 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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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