· Private foundation
Carson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY | $25,000 |
| HAYS CALDWELL WOMENS CENTER | $3,000 |
| CASA OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $2,500 |
| BOWIE HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY PHILOSOPHY | $2,500 |
| SAN MARCOS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| FARM AND CITY | $2,500 |
| THE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| EXPLORE AUSTIN | $2,500 |
| WIMBERLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT | $2,500 |
| PROJECT ART | $2,500 |
| WIMBERLEY VALLEY RADIO | $2,500 |
| HAYS COUNTY FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HWHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $29k · revenue +7%
- COCASA of Central Texas Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $16k · revenue +25%
- FAFarm and City4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- TETEAM ESPERANZAone grant, 2022 · $5k
- TSTexas State University Musicone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SOSPECIAL OPPORTUNITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +36%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
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…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
ICC (dba Connxus) is a nonprofit alliance of health care providers in Central Texas dedicated to collecting, analyzing and sharing health information to improve healthcare quality and cost efficiency across the continuum of care.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
Reduce hunger and help the environment by connecting surplus food with our neighbors in need.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
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…
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.
To provide research, education and advocacy related to affordable housing
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wimberley Valley Radio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASA of Central Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds Wimberley Valley Radio ↗
- Who funds Farm and City ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Hays County Food Bank ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN EXPLORE INC ↗
- Who funds Hill Country Alliance ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Burdine Johnson Foundation · St David's Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · San Marcos Lions International · Harry L Willett Foundation C O Boyd Ryan · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Carson Family 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.