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Dripping Springs Community Foundation

Provide a means for giving financial aid and support to organizations that serve the community

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$38kEducation$26kHuman Services$24kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $22,450, the rows itemized in this filing. The $28,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,800 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$15,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$868k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRANTS TO NON PROFITS 5000$15,500
KERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FUND$6,950
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$97k · 3 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
2

Total granted

$97k
$16k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • GT
    GRANTS TO NON PROFITS 5000
    5× · 2017–2025 · $53k
  • DE
    DS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $26k
  • TR
    THE REFUGE FOR DMST
    2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue -24%

Funded once

  • PC
    PROJECT CONNECT GROUP
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

1 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. 1 of the 6 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/1
Grantees still filing
0/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRANTS TO NON PROFITS 5000: $53,371 · OtherGRANTS TO NON PROFITS 5000DS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $26,000 · OtherDS EDUCATION FOUNDATIONTHE REFUGE FOR DMST: $18,000 · OtherTHE REFUGE FOR DMSTPROJECT CONNECT GROUP: $10,000 · OtherPROJECT CONNECT GROUPKERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FUND: $6,950 · OtherKERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FUNDHELPING HANDS: $6,100 · Other
Other$120,421

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE REFUGE FOR DMST: $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds THE REFUGE FOR DMST ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dripping Springs Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dripping Springs Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
’20’21’22
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–22
    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.

    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 6 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 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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