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Better Business Bureau
Bbb's mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k12 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k269 grants · $6.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOONTIME LLC | $40,000 |
| RUNA WORKSHOP LLC | $40,000 |
| BOUNCE MARKETING & EVENTS | $40,000 |
| PONCE 1973 LLC | $40,000 |
| ECOSCIENCE LLC | $40,000 |
| KHADIJAH LLC | $40,000 |
| SUNNY F OGUNRO CPA PLLC | $40,000 |
| DKO ENTERPRISES LP | $40,000 |
| THE PANACEA COLLECTION LLC | $40,000 |
| TEXAS TECH SOLUTIONS INC | $40,000 |
| URBAN AXES AUSTIN LLC | $40,000 |
| THE AUSTIN BARREL CONCEPT | $40,000 |
| YOGAHOUSE AUSTIN LLC | $40,000 |
| AUSTIN DIESEL AND JEEP LLC | $40,000 |
| GAMINE LLC | $40,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
370 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. 370 of the 1,142 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Better Business Bureau funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Better Business Bureau. Bigger dots raise more.
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