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Faulkner Family Foundation at a glance

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Faulkner Family Foundation

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.

$93k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$181kPublic Benefit$21kHuman Services$16kEducation$11kRecreation & Sports$3kReligion$3kYouth Development$2kAnimals$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$886k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DISABILITY RESOURCES$67,737
HONOR FLIGHT AUSTIN$13,000
MAKE-A-WISH$10,000
THE MISSY PROJECT$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $184k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GIDEON'S 300: $2k → 9%DISABILITY RESOURCES: $68k → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%DISABILITY RESOURCES: $26k → 16%DISABILITY RESOURCES: $26k → 16%DISABILITY RESOURCES: $20k → 16%DISABILITY RESOURCES: $18k → 16%DISABILITY RESOURCES: $15k → 16%DISABILITY RESOURCES: $6k → 16%DISABILITY RESOURCES: $3k → 16%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$217k · 6 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
15

Total granted

$217k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+44%

Still filing today

33%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • DR
    Disability Resources Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue -47%
  • HF
    Honor Flight Austin
    5× · 2019–2024 · $21k · revenue +48%
  • TC
    TOTAL CITY SPORTS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $8k

Funded once

  • PI
    PELOTONU INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +106%
  • G3
    GIDEONS 300
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +434%
  • TS
    THE SETTLEMENT CLUB
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · 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.

1
Texas Wounded Warriors

The mission of the texas wounded warrior foundation is to raise awareness, to honor, and to empower our wounded united state military warriors, enabling them to assimilate back to daily life upon their return from combat. we seek to…

Public Benefit
2
Disabled American Veterans of Texas Service Foundation
Human Services
3
Texas Wranglers

Texas Wranglers affords students an opportunity to make lifelong friends from all walks of life; to become a student leader through community involvement throughout the student network.

Philanthropy
4
Lonestar Soccer Club of Austin Inc

Lonestar promotes an active, healthy lifestyle and love for the "beautiful game". lonestar develops complete soccer players with key core values which lonestar believes provides players the best opportunity to succeed at the next level…

Recreation & Sports
5
Austin Explore Inc

Explore austin empowers youth to reach their full potential through mentoring, leadership, and outdoor adventure.

Education
6
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
7
Atx Kids Club

ATX KIDS CLUB's mission is to empower youth through educational adventures that promote independence, confidence, and a deeper connection to their community - one field trip at a time.

Education
8
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
9
San Antonio Patriots

San Antonio Patriots goal is to provide high quality, school athletic programs that are Christ honoring for our homeschool students.

Recreation & Sports
10
Friends of the Children - Texas

The objectives of friends of the children - texas are to sustain and grow existing friends of the children chapters in austin and houston, expand and build new friends of the children chapters in other texas cities, and enhance the…

Human Services
11
Waco Warriors Sports Foundation

To provide the youth of waco and their parents the opportunity to promote personal growth through athletics and sportsmanship.

Recreation & Sports
12
NextOp Inc

NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gideons 300. 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

12 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. 12 of the 22 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Disability Resources Inc: $180,237 · Human ServicesDisability Resources Inc+3 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH: $10,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISHTOTAL CITY SPORTS: $7,500 · OtherTOTAL CITY SP…THE MISSY PROJECT: $3,500 · OtherTHE MISSY PRO…RIVERBEND BAPTIST CHURCH: $2,835 · OtherRIVERBEND BAP…LONE STAR CATTLEMEN FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherLONE STAR CAT…Individual grant recipient: $1,000 · Other+5 more: $1,600 · Other+5 moreHonor Flight Austin: $20,700 · Public BenefitHonor Fli…PELOTONU INC: $2,500 · EducationWESTLAKE CHAP CLUB INC: $150 · EducationTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $1,000 · HealthSTART UP KIDS CLUB: $1,000 · Community ImprovementYOUNG LIFE: $500 · Youth DevelopmentRODEO AUSTIN: $250 · Animals
Human Services$183,737Other$28,935Public Benefit$20,700Education$2,650Health$1,000Community Improvement$1,000Youth Development$500Animals$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDisability Resources Inc: $180,237 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetHonor Flight Austin: $20,700 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPELOTONU INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRODEO AUSTIN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTLAKE CHAP CLUB INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Disability Resources Inc ↗
  • Who funds Honor Flight Austin ↗
  • Who funds PELOTONU INC ↗
  • Who funds GIDEONS 300 ↗
  • Who funds THE SETTLEMENT CLUB ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds START UP KIDS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds RODEO AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds DRIPPING SPRINGS SHOOTING TEAM BOOSTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTLAKE CHAP CLUB INC ↗

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 Foun…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Austin Community Foundation IncTX13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Faulkner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Faulkner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
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 →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of 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, FY20–25
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.

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 22 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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