· Private foundation
Buena Vista Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $368k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUSTIN ED FUND | $368,111 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $200,000 |
| EXPLORE AUSTIN | $150,000 |
| UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN | $131,663 |
| HUMANITIES TEXAS | $130,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREATER TEXAS | $100,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA - AUSTIN | $75,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND - AUSTIN 2030 | $75,000 |
| CREATIVE ACTION | $70,000 |
| UNIV OF TEXAS AT AUSTINDEVELOPMENT OFC | $60,000 |
| POWER FOR PARKINSON'S | $60,000 |
| ROOTED WHOLEWAY HOUSE INC | $50,000 |
| ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION COMMUNITY FUND | $50,000 |
| TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL | $34,875 |
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 (FY24–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Buena Vista Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 90%.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
58 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 13 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $788k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TJTodos Juntos Learning Center6× · 2020–2025 · $424k · revenue +299%
- HTHUMANITIES TEXAS6× · 2020–2025 · $330k · revenue +31%
- AEAUSTIN EXPLORE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +276%
Funded once
- RFRETINA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $125k
- WGWATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCYone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -79%
- ILI LIVE HERE I GIVE HEREone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -19%
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.
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How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 89 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
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.
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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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Still Water Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Impact Austin Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Buena Vista Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buena Vista Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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