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Austin Startup Games Inc
Austin startup games unites high-growth startup companies in friendly competition to build great cultures while giving back to their local communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $98,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $152,572 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $54,572 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC | $19,500 |
| AUSTIN LOST AND FOUND PETS | $18,000 |
| AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC | $12,000 |
| NONPAREIL INSTITUTE | $12,000 |
| FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $9,000 |
| HACA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC | $7,500 |
| LIFE ANEW RESTORATIVE JUSTICE | $7,000 |
| E4 YOUTH INCORPORATED | $7,000 |
| CODE2COLLEGE | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +117% since the first grant, against +66% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
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 FY2020, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- MLMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC2× · 2019–2020 · $39k · revenue +218%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC2× · 2018–2019 · $33k · revenue +9%
- BBREAKTHROUGH2× · 2018–2019 · $27k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- KIKURE IT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +97%
- TSTHE SAFE ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue +66%
- FOFRIENDS OF AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTERone grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue -19%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kure It Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 24 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 MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds KURE IT INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTERING ARMS INC ↗
- Who funds NONPAREIL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Life Anew Restorative Justice ↗
- Who funds E4 YOUTH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds CODE2COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ANDREW S RODDICK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN ↗
- Who funds POP CULTURE CLASSROOM ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Topfer Family Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Texas Instruments Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Startup Games 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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