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Crews Kolodzey 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.

$147k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$150kRecreation & Sports$84kYouth Development$73kArts & Culture$72kFood & Nutrition$65kHealth$51kCrime & Legal$45kEducation$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $112k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUNT PRESERVATION SOCIETY$32,000
CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL$22,000
CASA MARIANELLA$16,000
ROOMMATES IN RECOVERY$11,000
COASTAL BEND WELLNESS FOUNDATION$11,000
TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$10,000
KEEP AUSTIN FED$10,000
HAYS COUNTY BROWN SANTA$7,500
HIGHLAND LAKES CHRISTMAS IS FOR KIDS$5,000
HAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER$5,000
THE PURPLE DOOR$5,000
POLICE ASSOCIATION OF LOCKHART$5,000
WILLIAMSON COUNTY BROWN SANTA$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
BUDA POLICE BLUE SANTA$2,500
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 (FY21–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WILLIAMSON COUNTY BROWN SANTA: $5k → 6%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $40k → 10%BLACK OUTSIDE INC: $10k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $10k → 16%WILLIAMSON COUNTY BROWN SANTA: $3k → 6%Meals on Wheels: $20k → 10%PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$153k · 8 repeat orgs$532k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
33

Total granted

$153k
$407k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+15%

Still filing today

63%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionEmploymentOther

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

  • SH
    SPECIAL HEARTS IN THE ARTS
    2× · 2021–2023 · $40k · revenue +12%
  • HW
    HAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER
    2× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue -3%
  • Central Texas Food Bank Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue -28%

Funded once

  • AG
    AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -32%
  • AA
    AUSTIN ANGELS
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • LI
    LATINITAS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +13%

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
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
2
Casa of Williamson County Texas

CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.

Crime & Legal
3
Bluebonnet Childrens Center

To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.

Crime & Legal
4
Atx Helps

ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.

Human Services
5
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
6
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
—
7
Teen and Family Services Austin

Teen and Family Services Austin provides counseling and education on an individual as well as group basis to provide support to parents and teens who are coping with teen high risk behavior.

—
8
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
9
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal
10
Children's Aid Society of West Tx Inc

To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…

Human Services
11
Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc

Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. provides a voice, heals the hurt and breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for children in Fort Bend County.

Civil Rights
12
Casa for Kids of South Central Texas Inc

To recruit, train and supervise volunteers that advocate in the best interests of abused and neglected children in court.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hays-Caldwell Women's Center and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%6%<5yr16%8%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr10%39%35–55yr11%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%5%<5yr16%10%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr10%41%35–55yr11%10%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
16%
6,297/38,929

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, 2017–2025.

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. 37 of the 51 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
23/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AUSTIN ANGELS — $30,000 · OtherAUSTIN ANGELSNAMI Central Texas — $20,000 · OtherNAMI Central TexasCASA MARIANELLA INC — $16,000 · OtherCASA MARIANELLA INCPOLICE ASSOCIATION OF LOCKHART — $15,000 · OtherBUDA POLICE BLUE SANTA — $12,500 · OtherRoommates in Recovery — $11,000 · OtherVolunteer Services Council for Austin State School — $10,000 · OtherCHARIOTS — $10,000 · OtherTHE SAFE ALLIANCE — $10,000 · OtherTrafick911 — $10,000 · OtherSAN MARCOS POLICE DEPT BLUE SANTA — $10,000 · OtherLATINITAS INC — $20,000 · OtherLATINITAS INCTexas Children in Nature — $10,000 · OtherSchoolyard Dogs — $15,000 · OtherAUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS — $10,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE OF SOUTH TEXAS — $20,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE OF SOUTH TEXASPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $10,000 · OtherCentral Texas Table of Grace Inc — $10,000 · Other+9 more — $43,500 · Other+9 moreAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY — $40,000 · Human ServicesAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE …HAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER — $30,000 · Human ServicesHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S …MEALS ON WHEELS — $20,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELSHays County Brown Santa — $12,500 · Human ServicesHays County Brown Sant…BLACK OUTSIDE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesBLACK OUTSIDE INCPathways for Little Feet — $10,000 · Human ServicesPathways for Little Fe…WILLIAMSON COUNTY BROWN SANTA INC % TREASURER — $7,500 · Human ServicesWILLIAMSON COUNTY BROW…PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL ( — $22,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S A…The Blue Bird Circle — $20,000 · HealthThe Blue Bir…THE SETTLEMENT CLUB — $20,000 · HealthTHE SETTLEME…COASTAL BEND WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 · HealthCOASTAL BEND…SPECIAL HEARTS IN THE ARTS — $40,000 · Arts & CultureSPECIAL H…AUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN CR…James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts — $6,000 · Arts & CultureJames Dic…HUNT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $32,000 · Recreation & SportsGIRLSTART — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $25,000 · Food & NutritionKEEP AUSTIN FED — $10,000 · Food & NutritionCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK — $10,000 · Food & NutritionAUSTIN EXPLORE INC — $10,000 · EducationCon Mi MADRE — $10,000 · EducationRISE SCHOOL OF CORPUS CHRISTI — $10,000 · EducationThe Ann Richards School Foundation — $5,000 · Education
Other$293,000Human Services$135,000Health$73,000Arts & Culture$56,000Recreation & Sports$47,000Food & Nutrition$45,000Education$35,000

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 budgetAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSPECIAL HEARTS IN THE ARTS — $40,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL ( — $22,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLATINITAS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE OF SOUTH TEXAS — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNAMI Central Texas — $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetThe Blue Bird Circle — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS — $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGIRLSTART — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSchoolyard Dogs — $15,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetHays County Brown Santa — $12,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetCOASTAL BEND WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVolunteer Services Council for Austin State School — $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetAUSTIN EXPLORE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTexas Children in Nature — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK OUTSIDE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPathways for Little Feet — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCentral Texas Table of Grace Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCon Mi MADRE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRISE SCHOOL OF CORPUS CHRISTI — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWILLIAMSON COUNTY BROWN SANTA INC % TREASURER — $7,500 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetJames Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Ann Richards School Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Austin Community Foun…A Glimmer of Hope Fou…St David's FoundationImpact Austin Foundat…The Burdine Johnson F…Shield-Ayres Foundati…United Way for Greate…Better Business BureauAlice Kleberg Reynold…Carl C Anderson Sr an…The Moody FoundationEcg Foundation
Austin Community Foundation IncTX33.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin · St David's Foundation · Impact Austin Foundation · The Burdine Johnson Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Better Business Bureau · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Ecg 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 Crews Kolodzey 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Crews Kolodzey Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Crews Kolodzey 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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