· Private foundation
Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k28 grants · $731k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $952k
- $250k+1 grant · $337k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $336,733 |
| JERUSALEM FOUNDATION | $168,367 |
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $168,367 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| CIVIC NATION | $100,000 |
| LA VEGA PIRATES EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| WACO FAMILY MEDICINE | $55,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS | $50,605 |
| TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS | $50,000 |
| TEXAS APPLESEED | $50,000 |
| LONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| LONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| CARITAS OF WACO | $47,500 |
| CIVICLEX INCORPORATED | $45,550 |
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 (FY17–25, $685k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $742k 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
- GWGREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE4× · 2017–2023 · $672k · revenue +3% · 36% of their budget
- TTTHE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $665k · revenue +3%
TEXAS TRIBUNE INC3× · 2020–2024 · $330k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- WAWACO ARTS FEST - DORIS MILLER MEMORIAL PROJECTone grant, 2019 · $300k
- NCNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIPone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -53%
- FHFAMILY HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2020 · $129k
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.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
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…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Texans for vaccine choice exists to directly influence vaccine choice public policy and legislation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Rural Funders and the most unlike its peers is Dream of Detroit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
112 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. 112 of the 165 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 JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WACO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF WACO ↗
- Who funds Center for Public Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds GREATER WACO LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Civic Nation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds American Gateways ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Appleseed ↗
- Who funds WACO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE WACO ↗
- Who funds TALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WACO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CEN-TEX HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMM ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY ↗
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: Cooper Foundation · Waco Foundation · Baylor University · United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Meadows Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc · Ascension Providence · Clifton Foundation · Episcopal Health Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Fentress 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 Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation 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.
- Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
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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