· Public charity
Caritas of Austin
CARITAS OF AUSTIN provides a home and tailored services to prevent and end homelessness.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| 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 |
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 (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 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 +120% since the first grant, against +79% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
To provide hope and healing to those impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault.
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.
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
The organization provides shelter and safety to victims of interpersonal violence and helps to eliminate abuse through education and training of community partners.
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.
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.
We are committed to helping victims of sexual assault and abuse and domestic assault and abuse through advocacy support and education. We provide emergency shelter to domestic assault victims. We Also are committed to educating the public…
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.
Emergency shelter for victims of domestic 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.
Provide shelter and counseling to domestic assault victims
The mission of domestic violence and sexual assault services is to support individuals affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual exploitation, and to lead the community toward ending these abuses of power.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 19 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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Caritas of Austin funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caritas of Austin. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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