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Carolyn Bartlett Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Carolyn Bartlett Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$66kHealth$44kEducation$30kRecreation & Sports$25kHuman Services$21kYouth Development$17kInternational$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS$20,000
GEN AUSTIN$14,267
CANDLELIGHT RANCH$10,000
HOSPICE AUSTIN$8,750
A4CH$2,500
ST DAVIDS FOUNDATION$1,700
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 (FY20–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $12k → 10%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $10k → 10%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $9k → 10%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $3k → 10%AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $10k → 10%AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $10k → 10%GEN AUSTIN: $14k → 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$208k · 11 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -22% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$208k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
-22%

Still filing today

64%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • HA
    HOSPICE AUSTIN
    4× · 2021–2025 · $34k · revenue +25%
  • CR
    CANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +7%
  • AP
    Austin Playhouse
    3× · 2020–2023 · $24k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • U
    UTPAC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DRAMA
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
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
Flower Hill Foundation Austin Texas
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2
A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin
Philanthropy
3
Austin Rainbow Theatre

Austin Rainbow Theatre provides affordable theatre that focuses on creating belonging, reducing stigma, honoring diverse LGBTQIA+ history and stories, and amplifying LGBTQIA+ artist and community voices.

Arts & Culture
4
Austin Pride Foundation
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5
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
6
The Giving Rose Foundation Atx
Public Benefit
7
Austin Creative Alliance

The mission of Austin Creative Alliance is to advance, connect, and celebrate Austin's arts, culture, and creative communities in order to nourish and strengthen the character, quality of life, and economic prosperity of our region.

Arts & Culture
8
Center for Austin Independent Journalism

To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…

Arts & Culture
9
Atx Helps

ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.

Human Services
10
Austin Theatre Alliance

We're here to inspire generations. we connect people and strengthen community by showcasing unforgettable performances across genres, providing life-changing arts education programs, and dreaming up magical experiences in iconic venues…

Arts & Culture
11
Austin Temple of Cao-Dai Tay-Ninh I
Religion
12
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Austin; the most unlike its peers is Casa Mea. 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

10 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. 10 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASUTPAC: $20,000 · OtherUTPACIndividual grant recipient: $19,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DRAMA: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DRAMAAGE: $15,000 · OtherAGEZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE: $11,500 · OtherZACHARY SCOTT THEATREIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+8 more: $17,500 · Other+8 moreHOSPICE AUSTIN: $34,200 · Human ServicesHOSPICE AUSTINAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $20,000 · Human ServicesAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDE…GENAUSTIN: $14,267 · Human ServicesGENAUSTINAustin Playhouse: $23,500 · Arts & CultureAustin Playho…IMPACT ARTS INC: $11,700 · Arts & CultureIMPACT ARTS I…CANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCANDLELIG…Water to Thrive: $11,000 · InternationalST DAVID'S FOUNDATION: $6,950 · Health
Other$149,350Human Services$68,467Arts & Culture$35,200Recreation & Sports$25,000International$11,000Health$6,950

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 budgetHOSPICE AUSTIN: $34,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAustin Playhouse: $23,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGENAUSTIN: $14,267 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIMPACT ARTS INC: $11,700 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWater to Thrive: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST DAVID'S FOUNDATION: $6,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITOL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA MEA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 HOSPICE AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds CANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Austin Playhouse ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
  • Who funds GENAUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Water to Thrive ↗
  • Who funds ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAPITOL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA MEA ↗

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 Foun…Better Business BureauUnited Way WorldwideGe Aerospace Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Austin Community Foundation IncTX21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Better Business Bureau · United Way Worldwide · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Carolyn Bartlett Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carolyn Bartlett Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Carolyn Bartlett Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Carolyn Bartlett Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 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-PF 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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