· Private foundation
Fara Foundation Formerly Known as Foundacion Fara
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of FARA FOUNDATION FORMERLY KNOWN AS FOUNDACION FARA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $26,390 |
| UT AUSTIN-LITERACY FIRST | $7,500 |
| TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,300 |
| GOD'S PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE | $5,000 |
| RAMJAANE JOSUA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| MORE THAN WELCOME | $2,500 |
| OPERATION GAME THIEF | $2,500 |
| HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC | $2,500 |
| MISSION POSSIBLE AUSTIN | $2,500 |
| ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- IIINKIND INC3× · 2021–2023 · $27k · revenue -2%
- UAUT AUSTIN-LITERACY FIRST4× · 2021–2024 · $18k
- RJRAMJAANE JOSUA FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $15k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $100k
- TLTEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +7%
- AIAVANCE Incone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.
We provide assistance to families in east Austin to improve their lives through better nutrition, better health care, healthier lifestyles, better educational opportunities, and cultural diversity activities.
Empowers older and disabled adults to live independentlly in thier own homes by providing nutritious home-delivered meals, safety checks, socialization, and community connection, which result in an enhanced quality of life and purpose as…
Caritas of austin provides a home and tailored services to prevent and end homelessness.
The mission of family promise of midland is to "end homelessness, one family at a time."
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Provide comprehensive medical & dental services to low income uninsured families, provide
To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.
The mission of people's community clinic is to improve the health of medically underserved and uninsured central texans by providing high quality, affordable health care with dignity and respect.
Uniting volunteers to prepare meals that get delivered to the food insecure
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Academy 4 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.
11 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. 11 of the 22 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 INKIND INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GET UP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MISSION POSSIBLE AUSTIN INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ACADEMY 4 ↗
- Who funds OPERATION GAME THIEF ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WELCOME INC ↗
- Who funds ST DAVID'S 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: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Fara Foundation Formerly Known as Foundacion Fara 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.