· Private foundation
Foresight Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
75% of Foresight Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Foresight Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k12 grants · $23k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| San Juan Diego Catholc High School | $1,150,000 |
| St Marys Catholic School | $450,000 |
| Holy Trinity Catholic High School | $450,000 |
| Christian Blind Mission | $150,000 |
| Breakthrough Central Texas | $5,500 |
| Eanes Education Foundation | $5,000 |
| Therapy Pet Pals of Texas | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Hyde Park Baptist School Foundation | $1,000 |
| YoungLife - Capernaum | $1,000 |
| Feed My Starving Children | $500 |
| Dream A Dream Horse Therapy | $500 |
| TVC Veterans Program | $500 |
| Eanes Special Olympics | $500 |
| YMCA of Austin Camp in Motion | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2017, 5 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BBREAKTHROUGH3× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +199%
Best Buddies International Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $9k · revenue +43%- EEEanes Education Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- SJSan Juan Diego Catholc High Schoolone grant, 2017 · $1.1M
- SMSt Marys Catholic Schoolone grant, 2017 · $450k
- HTHOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $450k
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.
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 Samaritan Foundation (GSF) is a fundraising and grant-making organization dedicated solely to Texas nursing. Its mission is to increase the number of nurses dedicated to clinical care and to improve the quality of nurse education and…
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
To fund neurofibromatosis research and education and to provide for support groups for those facing the illness.
ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.
First3years nurtures early relational and mental health of infants and toddlers in texas. working in deep collaboration with caregivers, parents, and professionals statewide, we cultivate strong early childhood systems, educate our…
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds Eanes Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds SHADE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLATWATER FOUNDATON ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds MAINSPRING SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds CHEYANNA'S CHAMPIONS 4 CHILDREN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Foresight Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foresight Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Foresight Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Foresight 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.
Play a game based on Foresight’s filings →