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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k12 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k269 grants · $6.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN AND SOUTHERN ARTS ASSOCIATES INC | $40,000 |
| URBAN PATCHWORK | $40,000 |
| ECOSCIENCE LLC | $40,000 |
| KHADIJAH LLC | $40,000 |
| THE BEE ON 6TH STREET LLC | $40,000 |
| JULIO'S MOTORS LLC | $40,000 |
| SUNNY F OGUNRO CPA PLLC | $40,000 |
| FIGURE 8 COFFEE PURVEYORS LLC | $40,000 |
| HILL COUNTRY WEAVERS | $40,000 |
| RUSTY MAMMOTH LLC | $40,000 |
| RUNA WORKSHOP LLC | $40,000 |
| GAMINE LLC | $40,000 |
| YOGAHOUSE AUSTIN LLC | $40,000 |
| HIP HAVEN INC | $40,000 |
| DKO ENTERPRISES LP | $40,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $655k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
107 repeat relationships — 107 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 174 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M 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
- BLBLUE LAPIS LIGHT INC2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +60%
- ETESQUINA TANGO CULTURA SOCIETY2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +78%
- EYE4 YOUTH INCORPORATED2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- SLSESA LLCone grant, 2020 · $40k
- DCDAILY CIRCUS LLCone grant, 2020 · $40k
- JLJD LANDSCAPING SERVICES LLCone grant, 2020 · $40k
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.
Austin Rainbow Theatre provides affordable theatre that focuses on creating belonging, reducing stigma, honoring diverse LGBTQIA+ history and stories, and amplifying LGBTQIA+ artist and community voices.
TexARTS is an arts education and performance destination that builds character, professionalism, and careers. Its mission is to cultivate a thriving arts community by exposing all people to the visual and performing arts. TexARTS prepares…
As a non-profit organization, Deaf Austin Theatre's purpose is to enrich, inspire, educate, create, and entertain the Austin community by using American Sign Language (ASL) within all of our theatrical productions that range from classics…
The mission of the Austin Fine Arts Alliance is to sustain Austin's arts ecosystem through direct funding to artists, public education and convenings that raise the value of the arts in our community.
To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…
Festival to provide free music to the community.
Provide opportunities for diverse, emerging artists and arts professionals to reach the broader Austin community through unique experiences. In lieu of a physical gallery space, we exhibit art through creative collaborations, pop-up…
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.
Cultura Brasil in Austin promotes art and cultural education by sponsoring and providing programs related to various aspects of the Brazilian culture including language classes, visual and performing arts, a library lectures, workshops,…
ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ballet Austin Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Children's Haven Association. 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 19 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
370 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. 370 of the 1,142 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc · United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · The Applied Materials Foundation · Impact Austin 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 Better Business Bureau 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.