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Austin Together Fund

Austin together enables sustained collaborations that strengthen the nonprofit community to create better outcomes for central texans through our unique grant and community engagement model.

$239k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $220,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $238,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$18,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$422k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DRIVE A SENIOR AUSTIN$60,000
CREATIVE ACTION$50,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$30,000
CAPACITY CATALYST$25,000
LOLA$18,000
USTRIVE$10,000
CHARIOT$10,000
SENIOR ACCESS$10,000
SIMS FOUNDATION$7,500
02The need
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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 (FY25–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DRIVE A SENIOR AUSTIN: $60k → 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 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
Drive a Senior Network

To provide services that enhance the independence and quality of life for senior adults in the austin metropolitan area.

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2
Safe Streets Austin

Safe Streets Austin is a movement to transform Austins streets, bikeways, and trails into safe, vibrant, equitable places for people of all ages and abilities to walk, bike, roll, and gather.

Education
3
Austin Up

AustinUP works with local and regional business and civic leaders, entrepreneurs, non-profit service organizations and a multigenerational group of passionate individuals to raise the profile of our senior population and prepare our…

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4
Austin Creative Alliance

The mission of Austin Creative Alliance is to advance, connect, and celebrate Austin's arts, culture, and creative communities in order to nourish and strengthen the character, quality of life, and economic prosperity of our region.

Arts & Culture
5
Arts & Design Alumni Reserch

The mission of the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) is to maximize the success and impact of creatives in society by driving evidence-informed change in training and illuminating the value of arts and design education.

Education
6
Good Work Austin

Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.

Public Benefit
7
Atx Helps

ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.

Human Services
8
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
9
Austin Area Mental Health Consumers

Austin Mental Health Community (AMHC) provides peer-driven programs designed to support, empower, and connect individuals throughout their mental health journey. Our Warm Line offers a safe and welcoming space where trained Warm Line…

Health
10
Southwest Outreach for Older People

To promote independence, preserve dignity, and enhance the quality of life of older adults and people with disabilities by coordinating and providing educational and transportation services.

Human Services
11
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
12
Austin Coming Together

To increase the collective impact of our member organization on improving education economic development outcomes within the Austin Community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Drive a Senior Central Texas; the most unlike its peers is Lola- Local Opera Local Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Creative Action: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCreative ActionLOLA- LOCAL OPERA LOCAL ARTS: $18,000 · Arts & CultureLOLA- LOCAL OPERA LOCAL ARTSSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $30,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INCCapacity Catalyst: $25,000 · EducationCapacity CatalystSTRIVE FOR COLLEGE INC: $10,000 · EducationSTRIVE FOR COLLEGE INCDRIVE A SENIOR AUSTIN TEXAS: $60,000 · Human ServicesDRIVE A SENIOR AUSTIN TEXASSENIOR ACCESS TX: $25,000 · OtherSENIOR ACCESS TXDRIVE A SENIOR CENTRAL TEXAS: $10,000 · OtherDRIVE A SENIOR C…THE SIMS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Health
Arts & Culture$68,000Education$65,000Human Services$60,000Other$35,000Health$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCreative Action: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSENIOR ACCESS TX: $25,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSTRIVE FOR COLLEGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDRIVE A SENIOR CENTRAL TEXAS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Austin Together Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Austin Together Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Austin Together Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Austin Together Fund 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 9 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 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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