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Chance Comes Once Foundation at a glance

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Chance Comes Once 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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

International$71kHuman Services$15kCommunity Improvement$15kRecreation & Sports$7kEducation$7kAnimals$7kEnvironment$5kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,037
Median grant
7
States reached
$441k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSION POSSIBLE OF AUSTIN$6,061
PELOTON U$4,166
AFRICA NEW LIFE MINISTRIES$3,000
AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION$2,000
HOPE WALKS$1,066
EXPLORE AUSTIN$1,052
AUSTIN PETS ALIVE$1,050
FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS$1,040
AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS$1,037
CARITAS OF AUSTIN$1,037
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION TEXAS$1,034
ACTION AID$1,033
COMMUNITY FIRST$1,032
FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION$1,032
CASA MARIANELLA$1,030
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 (FY19–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THORN: $537 → 14%FOSTER VILLAGE: $2k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $1k → 10%FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $1k → 10%FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $513 → 10%FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $513 → 10%FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $513 → 10%FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $500 → 10%FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
OR
PA
CA
CO
TN
DC
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$131k · 21 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
11

Total granted

$131k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+99%

Still filing today

81%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentReligionOther
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

  • AN
    AFRICA NEW LIFE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $64k · revenue +47%
  • PI
    PELOTONU INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +106%
  • FW
    FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • FV
    FOSTER VILLAGE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • A
    AIDNET
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • AA
    ALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
2
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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3
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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4
Austin Public Library Friends Foundation

Support and strengthen austin public libraries

Education
5
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
6
Austin Community Foundation Inc

We mobilize ideas and resources to strengthen central texas.

Philanthropy
7
Austin Area Foundation

Support nonprofit organizations by managing & distributing charitable gifts

Philanthropy
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
Austin City Lutherans

Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.

Religion
10
Greater Austin Christian Foundation

Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.

Religion
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Justin Graves Ministries. 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

32 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. 32 of the 40 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AFRICA NEW LIFE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $63,750 · EducationAFRICA NEW LIFE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONALPELOTONU INC: $6,725 · EducationPELOTONU INCAUSTIN EXPLORE INC: $2,604 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationMISSION POSSIBLE OF AUSTIN: $14,597 · OtherMISSION POSSIBLE OF AUSTINTHE REFUGE FOR DMST: $6,139 · OtherTHE REFUGE FOR DMSTTHE TRAIL FOUNDATION: $2,265 · OtherCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $2,069 · OtherCASA MARIANELLA INC: $2,030 · OtherTHE ACCESS FUND: $1,869 · OtherAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $3,115 · OtherAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INCShoal Creek Conservancy: $2,500 · OtherShoal Creek Conservancy+13 more: $11,760 · Other+13 moreFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION: $3,579 · Human ServicesFOSTER VILLAGE INC: $2,058 · Human ServicesBACK ON MY FEET: $2,015 · Human ServicesAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $1,037 · Human ServicesALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY: $1,020 · Human ServicesTHORN: $537 · Human ServicesAUSTIN ZOO INC: $4,032 · Arts & CultureCreative Action: $1,010 · Arts & CultureGREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE FOUNDATION: $521 · Arts & CultureTHE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC: $3,558 · InternationalHOPE WALKS INC: $1,066 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalAUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $4,080 · Health
Education$73,579Other$46,344Human Services$10,246Arts & Culture$6,563International$5,624Recreation & Sports$4,500Health$4,080

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 budgetAFRICA NEW LIFE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $63,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPELOTONU INC: $6,725 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REFUGE FOR DMST: $6,139 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $4,080 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN ZOO INC: $4,032 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION: $3,579 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC: $3,558 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $3,115 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN EXPLORE INC: $2,604 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetShoal Creek Conservancy: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $2,069 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER VILLAGE INC: $2,058 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA MARIANELLA INC: $2,030 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBACK ON MY FEET: $2,015 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND: $1,869 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $1,532 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE WALKS INC: $1,066 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTreeFolks Inc: $1,029 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY: $1,020 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCreative Action: $1,010 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHORN: $537 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE FOUNDATION: $521 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trail Conservancy: $510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBookSpring: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTIN GRAVES MINISTRIES: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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…Shield-Ayres Foundati…Better Business BureauAlice Kleberg Reynold…The Powell FoundationSt David's FoundationImpact Austin Foundat…The Webber Family Fou…United Way for Greate…Christian Community F…The Moody FoundationOne Skye Foundation I…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX34.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Powell Foundation · St David's Foundation · Impact Austin Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · One Skye Foundation Inc

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 Chance Comes Once Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chance Comes Once Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Chance Comes Once Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Chance Comes Once 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 40 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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