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Budd Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $736k
- $250k+1 grant · $508k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INCARNATION PLACE INC | $508,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION | $209,500 |
| PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE ORACABESSA MARINE TRUST | $95,200 |
| CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION | $81,253 |
| AMERICAN RIVERS | $80,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $70,000 |
| TEXAS TRIBUNE | $50,000 |
| INCARNATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KATY TRAIL | $45,000 |
| SAINT PHILIP'S SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| LITERACY ACHIEVES | $10,000 |
| HOLY CROSS MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| GATEWAY OF GRACE | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL DALLAS CHURCH | $8,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
30 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TUThe University of Texas Law School Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · $2.4M · revenue +146%
- IPINCARNATION PLACE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $868k · revenue +118% · 52% of their budget
- PJPUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $596k · revenue +79%
Funded once
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +109%- TBTHE BUDD CENTER AT SMUone grant, 2020 · $91k
- WTWEST TEXAS FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +77%
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.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
The mission of Bexar Land Trust (Green Spaces) is to sustain the natural environment and enhance urban spaces through land conservation, community engagement, and education.
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
End hunger together.
The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Fe Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Crested Butte Mountain Bike 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 37 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 — 0.0% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 52 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 The University of Texas Law School Foundation ↗
- Who funds INCARNATION PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY AVENUE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds THE INCARNATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WACO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds DREAM TREE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TAOS HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds MILES OF FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Taos Inc dba Stray Hearts Animal Shelter ↗
- Who funds American Whitewater ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TAOS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds The Reciprocity Collective ↗
- Who funds Taos Mountain Bike Association ↗
- Who funds Twirl A Play and Discovery Space Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
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: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Reed Family Foundation Inc · The Taos Community Foundation Inc · Lor Foundation Inc · The Addy Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Planet in Peace Foundation · Grace Family 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 Budd Family 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.
- American Whitewater — 5% 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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