· Private foundation
Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $514k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $482k
- $250k+4 grants · $5.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The University of Texas at Austin | $2,600,000 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | $1,600,000 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | $462,000 |
| Trinity Valley Community College Foundation | $300,000 |
| Texans for Greater Mental Health | $100,000 |
| Salvation Army of Greater Austin | $77,000 |
| Americans for Ibogaine | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
| Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country | $60,000 |
| City of Athens TX | $55,000 |
| Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children | $50,000 |
| Heroic Hearts Project | $40,000 |
| Athens Christian Preparatory Academy | $30,000 |
| Austin Theatre Alliance | $25,000 |
| Word of Honor Fund | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $560k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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 +3% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $690k 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
Southern Methodist University2× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +3%- ETEAST TEXAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $210k · revenue +250%
- ACAUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY2× · 2023–2024 · $115k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- USUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $2.5M
PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXASgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +31%
Health Alliance for Austin Musiciansgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +59%
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & South Texas and the most unlike its peers is Americans for Ibogaine. 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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 113 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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds TRINITY VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Word of Honor Fund ↗
- Who funds Health Alliance for Austin Musicians ↗
- Who funds SEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK FRET DBA SONIC GUILD ↗
- Who funds TEXANS FOR GREATER MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes ↗
- Who funds LILA LANE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds HEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR IBOGAINE ↗
- Who funds ATHENS CHRISTIAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · East Texas Communities Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Ginger Murchison Foundation · Athens Thrift Store Inc · St David's Foundation · Henderson County United Way · United Way for Greater Austin · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Ben and Maytee Fisch 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 Effie and Wofford Cain 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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