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Cleve H Tandy 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUSTIN RIDGE BIBLE CH | $10,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY PRESB CH | $9,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $3,000 |
| 100 CLUB COMAL COUNTY | $3,000 |
| CEN TX NARCOTICS ANON | $2,000 |
| OPEN DOOR BAPTIST CH | $2,000 |
| AUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| WORLD DENTAL RELIEF | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| INGRAM VFD | $1,000 |
| AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
64 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 3 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, 91% 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +40%
- SCSUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +48%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $13k
- GRG RIDGE CITIZEN POL ALUone grant, 2023 · $5k
- LOL OAK CITIZEN POL ALUMone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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…
Engage in building procted to provide emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent housing while offering job skills training and support to help residents move toward self-sufficiency.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.
Established in 1934, vna helps older adults live with dignity and independence at home by providing in-home care, food and friendship for the ill, hungry, and homebound.
Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
The sobering center enhances public health and safety by providing a safe place for publicly intoxicated individuals to sober up as an alternative to the emergency room or jail and, where appropriate, to provide a bridge to recovery.
Provide education to members and general public on police related issues. negotiate work contracts for police officers with the city of austin.
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…
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Austin and the most unlike its peers is New Braunfels Downtown Rotary Scholarship Fund. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
38 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. 38 of the 104 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW BRAUNFELS DOWNTOWN ROTARY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FACTORY INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN GLOBAL AMBASSADORS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD DENTAL RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds INGRAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds BRACKEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank 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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Rwh Foundation · Donald D Hammill Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc
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 Cleve H Tandy 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.
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.
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