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Carol K Engler Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$522k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$494kArts & Culture$371kHuman Services$350kEducation$323kFood & Nutrition$209kPhilanthropy$146kAnimals$76kYouth Development$41kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $275k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL$65,000
AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE$60,000
LIRIOS PEDIATRICS$50,000
BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES$50,000
HOPEAUSTIN$50,000
HEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC$40,000
FOSTER KINSHIP$25,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$25,000
AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE$10,000
AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
SEEDLING FOUNDATION$10,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS$10,000
WOMENS WILDERNESS INSTITUTE$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $329k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $150k → 20%WISCONSIN UKRAINIANS INC: $1k → 10%WOMENS WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $8k → 12%NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC: $4k → 7%FOSTER KINSHIP: $25k → 13%GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $1k → 14%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 20%WOMENS WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%FOSTER KINSHIP: $25k → 13%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $29k → 20%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $8k → 7%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 20%PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 14% of Carol K Engler Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 68% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Carol K Engler Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 22 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
26

Total granted

$1.8M
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+14%

Still filing today

91%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • AT
    AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $275k · revenue +165%
  • BC
    BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $249k · revenue +28%
  • TA
    THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $205k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • RS
    REFUGEE SERVICES OF TEXAS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • BK
    BE KIND SAN ANTONIO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +81%
  • CT
    CENTRAL TX FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Austin Street Center

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…

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2
Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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3
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
4
Homeless Network of Texas

To lead texas communities to make homelessness rare, brief, and non- curring; to help communities strategically plan to prevent and end homelessness.

Community Improvement
5
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc

The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…

Animals
6
Good Work Austin

Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.

Public Benefit
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Children's Aid Society of West Tx Inc

To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…

Human Services
8
Caritas of Austin

Caritas of austin provides a home and tailored services to prevent and end homelessness.

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9
Humane Society of Central Texas

As an advocate for the community goal of maintaining its no kill status, the humane society provides adoption, rescue and foster opportunities for the homeless animals at the city of waco animal shelter, as well as community education…

Animals
10
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
11
Any Baby Can of Austin Inc

Any baby can, an austin-based nonprofit, partners with parents so children reach their full potential. with programs that meet clients where they are at home, work or school any baby can provides in-home therapy, parent education, mental…

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Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health provides comprehensive and complementary health care services in settings that preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of the individual, advocates…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mount Auburn Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersSenior Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…School District FoundationsDance Arts OrganizationsEnvironmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Food PantriesAddiction Recovery ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Elementary Literacy TutoringPolicy Research and AdvocacyChristian Missionary Organi…Domestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%8%<5yr16%18%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr10%16%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%8%<5yr16%19%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr10%8%35–55yr13%29%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/58
the rest of the field
15%
20,232/136,746

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
32/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL — $205,000 · HealthMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITALHEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC — $156,200 · HealthHEAL THE CITY FREE CLINICLIRIOS PEDIATRICS — $120,000 · HealthLIRIOS PEDIATRICS+2 more — $3,500 · HealthAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE — $275,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIA…CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL — $47,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL OF TEXAS PUB…AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO SYMPHONY IN…ORMAO DANCE COMPANY INC — $12,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $6,000 · Arts & CultureBAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES — $248,800 · Human ServicesBAPTIST COMMUNITY…FOSTER KINSHIP — $50,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER KINSHIPWOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE — $12,500 · Human Services+5 more — $18,000 · Human Services+5 moreTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $205,000 · OtherTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOU…REFUGEE SERVICES OF TEXAS INC — $25,000 · OtherREFUGEE SERVICES OF TEXA…DIOCESE OF AMARILLO SEMINARY BURSE — $17,000 · OtherBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $70,000 · OtherBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCI…GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $30,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL T…+23 more — $103,525 · Other+23 moreHOPEAUSTIN — $118,281 · Food & NutritionHOPEAUSTI…PASSEL PROVIDES FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Food & NutritionPASSEL PR…BE KIND SAN ANTONIO INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionBE KIND S…+4 more — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 moreCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $65,000 · PhilanthropyAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,700 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $80,000 · EducationSEEDLING FOUNDATION — $34,500 · EducationMOUNTAIN PHOENIX COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Education+3 more — $5,500 · Education
Health$484,700Arts & Culture$370,500Human Services$329,300Other$450,525Food & Nutrition$178,281Philanthropy$145,700Education$135,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE — $275,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES — $248,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $205,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL — $205,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC — $156,200 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLIRIOS PEDIATRICS — $120,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetHOPEAUSTIN — $118,281 over 3y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOSTER KINSHIP — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL — $47,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDLING FOUNDATION — $34,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPASSEL PROVIDES FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBE KIND SAN ANTONIO INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMOUNTAIN PHOENIX COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE — $12,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetORMAO DANCE COMPANY INC — $12,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF AMARILLO TEXAS — $4,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS — $4,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOROTHY DAY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY — $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN WALDORF SCHOOL INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeart Mind Haven — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOOK TRAILS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOME INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatures Educators — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJust City Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJustWorld International Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGALS BEST PAL INCORPORATED — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBirds of Prey Foundation — $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN UKRAINIANS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetVN TEAMWORK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Amarillo Area Foundat…Xcel Energy FoundationThe United Way IncDr Kent Roberts & Ile…Mary E Bivins Foundat…Austin Community Foun…Paul F & Virginia J E…Josephine Anderson Ch…Colorado Gives Founda…Texas Instruments Fou…Gilliland Family Foun…Wright Family Foundat…
Amarillo Area Foundation IncTX23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · The United Way Inc · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Paul F & Virginia J Engler Fndn · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Colorado Gives Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Gilliland Family Foundation · Wright Family Foundation

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 Carol K Engler Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • National Center for Victims of Crime Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Carol K Engler Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carol K Engler Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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