Texas · Public charity
Caritas of Austin
CARITAS OF AUSTIN provides a home and tailored services to prevent and end homelessness.
- $7.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $933k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $157,778
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $193,878
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Caritas of Austin funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $933k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $1.7M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $977k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $900k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $861k | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifeworks | $1,287,768 | 8 | n/a |
| Foundation for the Homeless Inc | $1,277,824 | 9 | 12% |
| The Safe Alliance Facilities Holdings | $1,040,419 | 7 | 84% |
| The Salvation Army | $1,003,707 | 7 | n/a |
| Family Eldercare Inc | $947,616 | 9 | 2% |
| Catholic Diocese of Austin | $696,082 | 7 | n/a |
| AIDS Services of Austin Inc | $687,733 | 6 | 2% |
| Goodwill Industries of Central Texas | $613,663 | 7 | 0% |
| Any Baby Can of Austin Inc | $609,623 | 8 | 1% |
| Front Steps Inc | $425,528 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifeworks | $1,287,768 | 8 | n/a |
| Foundation for the Homeless Inc | $1,277,824 | 9 | 12% |
| The Safe Alliance Facilities Holdings | $1,040,419 | 7 | 84% |
| The Salvation Army | $1,003,707 | 7 | n/a |
| Family Eldercare Inc | $947,616 | 9 | 2% |
| Catholic Diocese of Austin | $696,082 | 7 | n/a |
| AIDS Services of Austin Inc | $687,733 | 6 | 2% |
| Goodwill Industries of Central Texas | $613,663 | 7 | 0% |
| Any Baby Can of Austin Inc | $609,623 | 8 | 1% |
| Front Steps Inc | $425,528 | 6 | 1% |
| Meals on Wheels and More Inc | $357,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Sunrise Community Church | $177,585 | 1 | n/a |
| The Safe Alliance | $157,778 | 1 | 0% |
| Salvation Army & Its Components | $131,273 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities of Central Texas | $87,803 | 1 | n/a |
| Safe Alliance Foundation | $72,340 | 1 | n/a |
| ASHwell | $55,658 | 1 | n/a |
| The Arc of the Capital Area | $53,006 | 1 | 3% |
| The Salvation Army | $48,322 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Caritas of Austin supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · 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
How this is measured
About Caritas of Austin
- How much does Caritas of Austin give?
- Caritas of Austin reported 6 itemized grants totaling $933,448, out of $7,824,558 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Caritas of Austin fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (79%), Human Services (9%), Health (6%).
- Who are Caritas of Austin's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lifeworks ($1.3M), Foundation for the Homeless Inc ($1.3M), The Safe Alliance Facilities Holdings ($1.0M).
- Does Caritas of Austin fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Caritas of Austin?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, St David's Foundation, Donald D Hammill Foundation.
- Where is Caritas of Austin based?
- Caritas of Austin is based in TX.
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