· Private foundation
Austin 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
86% of Austin Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Dupage Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Austin Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $10k. 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USCGA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH CHRIST SCIENTIST | $2,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CAMP LEELANAU & KOHAHUA FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| TEEN PARENT CONNECTION | $1,000 |
| INDIAN PRAIRIE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CEDARS CAMPS | $1,000 |
| OSWEGO FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCEL | $1,000 |
| PINELLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SISamaritan Interfaith Counseling Center2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue +38%
- TMTHE MORTON ARBORETUM3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +28%
- LFLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- CLCamp Leelanau Kohahua Foundation Inone grant, 2020 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $500
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.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 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.
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 THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The Cedars Camps Inc ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds TEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN PRAIRIE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oswego Foundation for Educational Excellence ↗
- Who funds CAMP LEELANAU AND KOHAHNA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Austin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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