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Caritas of Austin

CARITAS OF AUSTIN provides a home and tailored services to prevent and end homelessness.

$7.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$194k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$7.7MHuman Services$899kHealth$629kEmployment$495kCrime & Legal$53k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $933,448, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,824,558 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,891,110 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$157,778
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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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.

area typical 8%THE SAFE ALLIANCE: $337k → 10%THE SAFE ALLIANCE: $185k → 10%THE SAFE ALLIANCE: $172k → 10%THE SAFE ALLIANCE: $105k → 10%THE SAFE ALLIANCE: $88k → 10%SAFE PLACE: $80k → 10%SAFE PLACE: $74k → 10%SAFE PLACE: $72k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $144k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $135k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $119k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $117k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $107k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $106k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $80k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $74k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $65k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.9M · 11 repeat orgs$784k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$8.9M
$317k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+120%
+79%

Still filing today

73%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $467k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEmploymentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +196%
  • TS
    THE SAFE ALLIANCE FACILITIES HOLDINGS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +81% · 84% of their budget
  • FE
    FAMILY ELDERCARE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $948k · revenue +199%

Funded once

  • CC
    Catholic Charities of Central Texasgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $88k · revenue +49%
  • SA
    SAFE ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $72k · revenue +79%
  • A
    ASHwellgraduated
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Safe Alliance Inc

To provide hope and healing to those impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault.

Human Services
2
Saafe House

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.

Health
3
Safe Alterntvs for Abused Families

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

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4
Safenet Inc

The organization provides shelter and safety to victims of interpersonal violence and helps to eliminate abuse through education and training of community partners.

Human Services
5
Austin Affordable Housing Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
Family Abuse Center Inc

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.

Human Services
7
S a F E Shelter

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…

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8
HomeAid Austin Inc

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.

Employment
9
A Safe Place

Emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence.

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10
Community Homes for Adults Inc

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.

Human Services
11
Advocates Against Domestic Assault

Provide shelter and counseling to domestic assault victims

Human Services
12
Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services of Whatcom County

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Safe Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFEWORKS: $1,287,768 · OtherLIFEWORKSFOUNDATION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $1,277,824 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR THE HOMELESS INCThe Salvation Army: $1,003,707 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF AUSTIN: $696,082 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF AUSTINANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC: $609,623 · OtherANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC+7 more: $711,425 · Other+7 moreTHE SAFE ALLIANCE FACILITIES HOLDINGS: $1,040,419 · Human ServicesTHE SAFE ALLIANCE FACIL…FAMILY ELDERCARE INC: $947,616 · Human ServicesFAMILY ELDERCARE INCSAFE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $72,340 · Human ServicesAIDS SERVICES OF AUSTIN INC: $687,733 · HealthGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $613,663 · EmploymentFront Steps Inc: $425,528 · Housing & ShelterMEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC: $357,600 · Food & Nutrition
Other$5,586,429Human Services$2,060,375Health$687,733Employment$613,663Housing & Shelter$425,528Food & Nutrition$357,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $1,277,824 over 9y, 12% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE FACILITIES HOLDINGS: $1,040,419 over 7y, 84% of budgetFAMILY ELDERCARE INC: $947,616 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetAIDS SERVICES OF AUSTIN INC: $687,733 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $613,663 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC: $609,623 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetFront Steps Inc: $425,528 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC: $357,600 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $157,778 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $53,006 over 1y, 2.7% of budget
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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX35.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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