· Private foundation
Dlr Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN | $9,300 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHALOM | $3,643 |
| SHALOM AUSTIN | $1,500 |
| CARITAS OF AUSTIN | $1,200 |
| AUSTIN PBS | $1,200 |
| THE SAFE ALLIANCE | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
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 (FY20–23, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- TCTHE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +12%
- SASHALOM AUSTIN3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +50%
- COCARITAS OF AUSTIN4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $13k
- SASEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +36%
- BFBLACK FRET DBA SONIC GUILDone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -24%
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.
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Public arts funding
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Contemporary Austin Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Art Produce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 33 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 WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SHALOM AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds Center for Women and Their Work Inc ↗
- Who funds SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds FUSE BOX AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK FRET DBA SONIC GUILD ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Glasstire ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds AIDS SERVICES OF AUSTIN INC ↗
- Who funds Art Produce ↗
- Who funds FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
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: Better Business Bureau · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Topfer Family Foundation · The Moody Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Ecg Foundation · Still Water Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Powell Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · St David's 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 Dlr Trust 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.