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Central Texas Food Bank Inc

To increase food access in Central Texas by providing nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through programs, education, and innovative solutions.

$91M
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Food & Nutrition$2.8MHuman Services$692kReligion$456kYouth Development$213kPublic Safety & Disaster$202kHousing & Shelter$180kHealth$158kCommunity Improvement$140kOther$0
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $161,297 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $91,470,962 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $91,309,665 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$15,754
Median grant
1
States reached
$123M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT$37,500
ST EDWARDS UNIVERSITY$28,000
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS$26,660
MONTOPOLIS RECREATION CENTER$15,754
TURNER ROBERTS RECREATION CTR$15,701
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$15,000
DOVE SPRINGS RECREATION CENTER$12,031
MISSION WACO$10,651
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 (FY17–22, $898k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HUTTO RESOURCE CENTER: $47k → 6%HELPING HANDS MINISTRY OF BELTON INC: $39k → 14%WACO SHEPHERDS HEART: $50k → 16%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES: $8k → 14%AMEN: $35k → 11%HELPING HANDS MINISTRY OF BELTON INC: $7k → 14%CARITAS OF WACO INC: $114k → 16%REVEAL RESOURCE CENTER: $86k → 6%AMEN: $25k → 11%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF GREAT TEMPLE INC: $40k → 14%REVEAL RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 6%REVEAL RESOURCE CENTER: $7k → 6%1-32-409 PROGRAMS - KC E AUSTIN COLLEGE PREP: $18k → 10%HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $116k → 10%HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $103k → 10%HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $84k → 10%HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $75k → 10%HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $28k → 10%OPERATION LIBERTY HILL: $7k → 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.

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.

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 16 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +163% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
34

Total granted

$3.5M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+163%
+35%

Still filing today

75%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementReligionEducationHealthOther

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

  • CO
    CTFB of TX Support Corporation
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +273% · 100% of their budget
  • HC
    HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES
    5× · 2017–2021 · $406k · revenue +172%
  • FC
    FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $180k · revenue +176%

Funded once

  • GC
    GEORGETOWN CARING PLACEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue +56%
  • GC
    GENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
    one grant, 2021 · $130k
  • SB
    SOUTHERN BAPTISTS OF TEXAS CONVENTION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $128k

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.

1
South Texas Food Bank

To alleviate hunger in the immediate service area through the distribution of food products donated by the usda, feeding america, area grocery stores, etc. which are distributed to the needy by way of area food banks and other qualified…

Community Improvement
2
North Dallas Food Pantry

North Dallas Food Pantry (DBA NTX Community Food Pantry) is dedicated to building relationships by sharing resources, hope and faith in a welcoming environment, with love and dignaty.

Human Services
3
Feeding America Texas

Feeding America Texas operates exclusively for charitable purposes by supporting food assistance, hunger relief, and community aid initiatives for individuals and families experiencing food insecurity throughout Texas. The organization…

Food & Nutrition
4
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
5
Food Pantry of Jeff Davis County Inc

None

Food & Nutrition
6
Bridge Ministries of Bryan Texas

To share Christ with others through serving those in need in the brazos valley and surrounding areas or wherever God leads and to bridge the gap by joining churches and other groups in serving together.

Religion
7
Tillman County Food Bank Foundation
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8
North East Texas Benevolence Inc

Provide basic food essentials to individuals and families in need in local community through voluntary contributions from individuals and organiztions.

Food & Nutrition
9
Brazos Church Pantry Inc

Collection of food to provide to needy people in brazos, county, texas

—
10
Lake Travis Crisis Ministries

Meet the short-term needs of people in crisis situations by providing immediate help in the form of food & financial assistance. Long-term assistance may also be provided.

Human Services
11
Clear Lake Food Pantry

We believe it is our faith in the love of Jesus Christ that calls us to be a fountain of hope for our fellow man. Through our ministries and following the teachings of Jesus Christ, we strive to help feed the hungry, comfort the cold, and…

Food & Nutrition
12
United Christian Care Center of Vidor Texas Inc

The United Christian Care Center of Vidor Texas Inc shall be a Christian witness to the Vidor area of Orange County, Texas, seeking to provide meaningful service to God and His Creation. To accomplish this goal, the United Christian Care…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Care Center and the most unlike its peers is Area Ministries for Emergency Needs. 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 backsteadyMedical Professional Associ…Family Philanthropic Founda…Local Heritage & Community …Legal Advocacy & Justice Se…Pregnancy Support ServicesHealthcare Quality & Infras…
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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr17%25%10–20yr14%25%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr12%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr17%59%10–20yr14%13%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr12%5%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
14%
2,145/15,876

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.

04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 57 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
28/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CTFB of TX Support Corporation — $1,691,322 · Food & NutritionCTFB of TX Support CorporationWelcome Table Incorporated — $63,200 · Food & Nutrition+6 more — $138,816 · Food & Nutrition+6 moreTRAVIS HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN OUTREACH — $263,668 · OtherTRAVIS HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN OUTREACHIndividual grant recipient — $150,314 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLA GRANGE AREA DISASTER RECOVERY TEAM — $141,890 · OtherLA GRANGE AREA DISASTER RECOVERY TEAMGENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST — $130,000 · OtherGENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVEN…SOUTHERN BAPTISTS OF TEXAS CONVENTION INC — $128,000 · OtherSOUTHERN BAPTISTS OF TEXAS CONVENTION I…FAMILY OF FAITH WORSHIP CENTER — $110,000 · OtherFAMILY OF FAITH WORSHIP CENTERSOUTHSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST FOOD PANTRY — $107,000 · OtherSOUTHSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST FOOD PANTRYCity of Austin — $94,156 · OtherBastrop County Emergency Food Pantry — $83,000 · OtherAUSTIN VOICES FOR EDUCATION & YOUTH — $93,600 · Other+23 more — $522,172 · Other+23 moreHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES — $406,395 · Human ServicesHILL COUNTRY COMMUN…CARITAS OF WACO — $114,000 · Human ServicesCARITAS OF WACOREVEAL RESOURCE CENTER — $103,000 · Human ServicesREVEAL RESOURCE CEN…AREA MINISTRIES FOR EMERGENCY NEEDS — $60,000 · Human ServicesAREA MINISTRIES FOR…HELPING HANDS MINISTRY OF BELTON INC — $53,149 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS MINIS…WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesWACO SHEPHERD'S HEA…HUTTO RESOURCE CENTER — $46,800 · Human ServicesTEMPLE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH INC — $40,000 · Human Services+2 more — $24,561 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC — $180,000 · Housing & ShelterGEORGETOWN CARING PLACE — $140,132 · Community ImprovementFEEDING TEXAS — $26,483 · Community ImprovementRICHARD ALLEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $6,000 · Community ImprovementAIDS SERVICES OF AUSTIN INC — $157,500 · HealthICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC — $124,188 · Public Safety & Disaster
Food & Nutrition$1,893,338Other$1,823,800Human Services$897,905Housing & Shelter$180,000Community Improvement$172,615Health$157,500Public Safety & Disaster$124,188

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCTFB of TX Support Corporation — $1,691,322 over 7y, 100% of budgetHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES — $406,395 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC — $180,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAIDS SERVICES OF AUSTIN INC — $157,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLA GRANGE AREA DISASTER RECOVERY TEAM — $141,890 over 2y, 52% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC — $124,188 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCARITAS OF WACO — $114,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREVEAL RESOURCE CENTER — $103,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetAUSTIN VOICES FOR EDUCATION & YOUTH — $93,600 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetBastrop County Emergency Food Pantry — $83,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetWelcome Table Incorporated — $63,200 over 1y, 20% of budgetLorena Shepherds Heart — $61,816 over 2y, 33% of budgetAREA MINISTRIES FOR EMERGENCY NEEDS — $60,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRY OF BELTON INC — $53,149 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWACO SHEPHERD'S HEART INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC — $46,906 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHUTTO RESOURCE CENTER — $46,800 over 1y, 17% of budgetTEMPLE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH INC — $40,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetEl Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission — $38,382 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHURCHES TOUCHING LIVES FOR CHRIST — $32,949 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetKINGSLAND SHARING THE HARVEST — $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHays County Food Bank — $29,644 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSt Edwards University — $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS — $26,660 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS — $26,483 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRIPPING SPRINGS HELPING HANDS INC — $22,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetRound Rock Area Serving Center Inc — $21,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SOUPER BOWL OF CARING INC — $20,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST KEY PROGRAMS INC — $17,561 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGatesville Care Center — $14,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFOOD CARE CENTER — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION LIBERTY HILL — $7,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetShepherd's Heart Food Pantry and Community Ministries — $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRICHARD ALLEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $6,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCALDWELL COUNTY CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

St David's FoundationUnited Way for Greate…Austin Community Foun…United Way of William…The Moody FoundationRick Caywood Ministri…Carl C Anderson Sr an…Waco FoundationUnited Way WorldwideCommunities Foundatio…Shell USA Company Fou…Enterprise Holdings F…
St David's FoundationTX33.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St David's Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Austin Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Williamson County · The Moody Foundation · Rick Caywood Ministries · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Waco Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 Central Texas Food Bank Inc 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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.

    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 57 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $79M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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