· Public charity
Fruitful Commons
Every neighborhood has vibrant spaces that reconnect people to growing food, nature and each other.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kalpulli Texas Quetzalcoatl | $5,000 |
| Rebuilding Broken Communities | $5,000 |
| Red Salmon Arts | $5,000 |
| Festival Beach Food Forest | $5,000 |
| Festival Beach Community Gardens | $5,000 |
| Alamo Community Garden | $5,000 |
| Green Gate Neighborhood Development | $5,000 |
| El Buen Samaritano El Buen | $5,000 |
| Ecology Action of Texas | $3,500 |
| The Salvation Army Austin Area Comm | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 9 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, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PTPTA TEXAS CONGRESS2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +37%
- PFPARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +40%
- EBEl Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +288%
Funded once
- SSerafinaone grant, 2023 · $14k
- PTPTA TEXAS CONGRESSone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CFCenter for Maximum Potential Building Systems Incone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -18%
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.
Farm&City is an independent 501c3 think & do tank dedicated to high quality urban & rural human habitat in Texas in perpetuity. We improve public policies to improve millions of Texans lives in ways that preserve and enhance Texas land,…
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.
Every neighborhood has vibrant spaces that reconnect people to growing food, nature and each other.
Pease Park Conservancy works to restore, enhance and maintain Pease Park for the sustainable use and enjoyment of all.
Improving public and park land communities using educational and vocational training for underserved youth.
Evolve Austin advocates for and champions the Imagine Austin comprehensive plan, crafted by the people of Austin to create a more affordable, mobile, and sustainable city.
Barton Springs Conservancy honors, preserves, and enhances the experience of Barton Springs for everyone through education and park improvements.
Farmshare Austin's mission is to grow a healthy, just and equitable local food system by increasing community food access and cultivating new farmers.
The Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve's mission is community-based conservation to reconnect people with the natural and cultural environment while promoting sustainable economic growth in Southeast Texas.
Empowering Texans to fight pollution through sustained grassroots organizing campaigns that shift corporate and governmental policy.
Our mission is to engage people and communities through face-to-face public education, grassroots organizing and action-oriented research for a cleaner and healthier Texas.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 21 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 DOWNTOWN AUSTIN PARKS LLC ↗
- Who funds PTA TEXAS CONGRESS ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY ↗
- Who funds El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission ↗
- Who funds Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems Inc ↗
- Who funds RED SALMON ARTS ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds Ecology Action of Texas 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.
Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Better Business Bureau · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fruitful Commons funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fruitful Commons. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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