How much does Ecg Foundation give?

Ecg Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $216,345 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Ecg Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Arts & Culture (14%), Health (13%).

Who are Ecg Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Texas Book Festival ($65k), Helping Hand Home for Children Inc ($40k), The Trustees of Princeton University ($35k).

Does Ecg Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ecg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ecg Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr, Topfer Family Foundation.

Ecg Foundation

Ecg Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Ecg Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$216k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$221kArts & Culture$149kHealth$142kYouth Development$78kRecreation & Sports$73kEducation$71kCommunity Improvement$65kFood & Nutrition$64kOther$0

02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k42 grants · $196k
$10k–50k2 grants · $20k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$10,000
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL	$10,000
CREATIVE ACTION	$8,690
AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$7,500
CARITAS OF AUSTIN	$7,500
TEXAS GUN SENSE	$6,500
HOSPICE AUSTIN	$6,000
HYPERREAL FILM CLUB	$5,000
JUNIOR LEAGUE	$5,000
BRIDGES TO LIFE	$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AUSTIN	$5,000
THE TEXAS TRIBUNE	$5,000
AUSTIN CENTER FOR GRIEF & LOSS	$5,000
FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS	$5,000
HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$921k · 54 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$921k

$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+11%

Still filing today

72%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

TB
Texas Book Festival
5× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +80%
The Trustees of Princeton University
5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +51%
AH
AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +255%

Funded once

PP
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TX
one grant, 2023 · $15k
N
NAMI
one grant, 2022 · $15k
TO
THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -5%

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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Good Work Austin

Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.

Public Benefit

Center for Austin Independent Journalism

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…

Arts & Culture

Austin Street Center

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…

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Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development

Any Baby Can of Austin Inc

Any baby can, an austin-based nonprofit, partners with parents so children reach their full potential. with programs that meet clients where they are at home, work or school any baby can provides in-home therapy, parent education, mental…

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Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture

Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services

American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

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.

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Austin Free-Net

To provide technology training and access to the community, fostering skills that enable people to succeed in the digital age.

Education

Austin Public Library Friends Foundation

Support and strengthen austin public libraries

Education

Austin Affordable Housing Corporation

To ensure and preserve quality, affordable housing opportunities for low- to moderate-income families in austin as well as provide financial literacy and homeownership opportunities.

Housing & Shelter

HomeAid Austin Inc

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.

Employment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Center Texas; the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 83 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

54/55

Grantees still filing

34/55

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$487,500Human Services$192,000Recreation & Sports$118,000Health$83,000Education$79,310Arts & Culture$69,535Youth Development$46,500

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

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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX69.4× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · Topfer Family Foundation · St David's Foundation · Better Business Bureau · The Moody Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Impact Austin Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ecg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ecg 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home