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Foundation for Expanding Horizons at a glance

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Foundation for Expanding Horizons

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$39kCivil Rights$25kHousing & Shelter$23kEducation$20kHuman Services$16kCrime & Legal$14kArts & Culture$9kEnvironment$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$271k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Austin Tan Cerca De La Frontera$6,500
Austin Presbyterian Theological Sem$5,500
Salvavision$5,000
St Stephens Episcopal School$4,000
Fellowship of Reconciliation$2,000
Boys Girls Club of Tucson$2,000
Foundation Communities$1,500
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 (FY19–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Other Ones Foundation: $2k → 10%Foundation for the Austin Network: $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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Foundation for Expanding Horizons’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Foundation for Expanding Horizonslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$88k · 9 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$88k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+28%

Still filing today

78%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
PhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • FC
    FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $15k · revenue +176%
  • AG
    American Gateways
    2× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +61%
  • TS
    THE SAFE ALLIANCE
    2× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • GN
    GRANT NO MORE DEATHS
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • LI
    LLACUNA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • AP
    Arizona Public Media
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
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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2
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
3
Leadership Austin

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

Youth Development
4
Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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5
Border Workers United

A community-based organization that develops leadership of workers to construct a movement of worker families in the texas borderlands.

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6
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
7
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
8
Austin Together Fund

Austin together enables sustained collaborations that strengthen the nonprofit community to create better outcomes for central texans through our unique grant and community engagement model.

Community Improvement
9
Austin Public Library Friends Foundation

Support and strengthen austin public libraries

Education
10
Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc

We are texas lawyers for texas communities, boldly serving the movement for equality and justice in and out of the courts.

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11
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Llacuna Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 28 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)
18/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SAFE ALLIANCE: $10,000 · OtherTHE SAFE ALLIANCEGRANT NO MORE DEATHS: $6,000 · OtherGRANT NO MORE DEATHSKUT Radio: $6,000 · OtherKUT RadioAustin Presbyterian Theological Sem: $5,500 · OtherAustin Presbyterian Theological SemSALVAVISION: $5,000 · OtherSALVAVISIONLLACUNA INC: $4,000 · OtherLLACUNA INCST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $4,000 · OtherST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLTexas Low Income Housing: $3,652 · OtherTexas Low Income HousingArizona Public Media: $3,000 · OtherGRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP INC: $2,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL COMAL COUNTY: $2,190 · OtherLONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $3,000 · Other+5 more: $6,150 · Other+5 moreAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION…COLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATI…PHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST: $2,790 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST+1 more: $600 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA: $13,000 · InternationalAUSTIN TAN CERC…FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalFELLOWSHIP OF R…University of Arizona Foundation: $16,000 · EducationUniversity …TEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $1,000 · EducationTEXAS TRIBU…FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $15,430 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATION…American Gateways: $11,500 · Crime & LegalFAMILIES IN NATURE: $3,000 · Environment
Other$60,992Philanthropy$42,390International$23,000Education$17,000Housing & Shelter$15,430Crime & Legal$11,500Environment$3,000

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 budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $15,430 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Gateways: $11,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILIES IN NATURE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST: $2,790 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL COMAL COUNTY: $2,190 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE: $600 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.

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…Shield-Ayres Foundati…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Austin Community Foundation IncTX21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Foundation for Expanding Horizons funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Expanding Horizons. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Foundation for Expanding Horizons?

    Find your warmest path to Foundation for Expanding Horizons 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.

    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 28 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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