· Public charity
Caritas of Austin
CARITAS OF AUSTIN provides a home and tailored services to prevent and end homelessness.
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.
The 6 grants below total $933,448 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,824,558 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,891,110 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR THE HOMELESS | $193,878 |
| SUNRISE HOMELESS NAVIGATION CENTER | $177,585 |
| THE SAFE ALLIANCE | $157,778 |
| LIFEWORKS | $153,588 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $131,273 |
| FAMILY ELDERCARE | $119,346 |
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, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +120% since the first grant, against +79% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $467k 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
- FFFOUNDATION FOR THE HOMELESS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +196%
- TSTHE SAFE ALLIANCE FACILITIES HOLDINGS7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +81% · 84% of their budget
- FEFAMILY ELDERCARE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $948k · revenue +199%
Funded once
- CCCatholic Charities of Central Texasgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $88k · revenue +49%
- SASAFE ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $72k · revenue +79%
- AASHwellgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $56k · revenue +257%
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 mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…
Engage in building procted to provide emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent housing while offering job skills training and support to help residents move toward self-sufficiency.
Saafe house is committed to empowering victims of family violence and sexual assault by providing individualized, immediate, free, and confidential services. our goal is to prevent family violence.
Provide programs and services to enable adults with intellectual disabilities to live full, rich lives in a safe environment and to meaningfully participate in the community.
To provide hope and healing to those impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault.
The family abuse center exists to eliminate domestic violence in central texas by sheltering victims of domestic violence and by preventing abuse from occurring through intervention and education.
To ensure and preserve quality, affordable housing opportunities for low- to moderate-income families in austin as well as provide financial literacy and homeownership opportunities.
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
The organization provides shelter and safety to victims of interpersonal violence and helps to eliminate abuse through education and training of community partners.
To provide relief to distressed members of families in the community, lessen the burden of state and local govermental agencies, and violence and sexual assault and create public awareness
To provide housing for low to moderate income families and to create a community environment that promotes resident education, self-sufficiency, leadership, and volunteerism
Provide shelter and counseling to domestic assault victims
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Safe Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Goodwill Industries of Central Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 19 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE FACILITIES HOLDINGS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ELDERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds AIDS SERVICES OF AUSTIN INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC ↗
- Who funds Front Steps Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Central Texas ↗
- Who funds SAFE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHwell ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE CAPITAL AREA ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · Donald D Hammill Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · United Way Worldwide · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Georgetown Healthcare System Inc · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Religious Coalition to Assist the Homeless
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 Caritas of Austin 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.