· Private foundation
Coon Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
- $250k+1 grant · $586k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARITY BUZZ | $586,028 |
| JASON MRAZ FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE TEXAS TRIBUNE | $75,000 |
| ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA AND MUSICAL THEATRE | $50,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UTAH PIONEER HERITAGE ARTS | $25,000 |
| COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| AUSTIN EMERGENCY SUPPLY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL STORYTELLING CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $63k) 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +91% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
TEXAS TRIBUNE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $415k · revenue +39%- UAUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $300k · revenue +1000%
- SAST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL2× · 2017–2018 · $300k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- MCMAYO CLINICone grant, 2021 · $100k
- RERepresentUs Education Fundone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -40%
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +39%
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.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
Support nonprofit organizations by managing & distributing charitable gifts
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jason Mraz Foundation. 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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 36 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 AUSTIN EMERGENCY SUPPLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jason Mraz Foundation ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs Education Fund ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH PIONEER HERITAGE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds KIMOKEO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL STORYTELLING CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 4ATX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION 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: Topfer Family Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Coon 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.
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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