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Georgetown Area Community Foundation
The mission of GEORGETOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (gacf) is to bridge donors to nonprofits with effective solutions to meet real community needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 32 grants below total $1,952,020 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,240,134 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $288,114 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $391k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $546k
- $250k+1 grant · $989k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF GEORGETOWN PARKS AND REC | $989,140 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $110,000 |
| ROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS | $102,400 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| GRACE ACADEMY GEORGETOWN | $53,000 |
| CASA OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY TEXAS | $50,500 |
| HONOR FLIGHT AUSTIN | $50,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF GEORGETOWN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE GRATITUDE INITIATIVE | $50,000 |
| GEORGETOWN BACKPACK BUDDIES | $45,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - UNIVERSITY RELATIONS | $40,000 |
| GEORGETOWN FAMILY YMCA | $30,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GEORGETOWN | $27,500 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $23,000 |
| GEORGETOWN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $22,237 |
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 (FY17–24, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- RRROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $863k · revenue +147%
- GAGrace Academy of Georgetown8× · 2017–2024 · $382k · revenue +118%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS6× · 2019–2024 · $374k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- TATexas A&M Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +74%
- LGLIVING GRACE CANINE RANCHgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue +40%
- SOSEEDS OF STRENGTH GIVING CIRCLEone grant, 2021 · $42k · revenue -9%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown Caring Place and the most unlike its peers is Site Projects Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
71 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. 71 of the 94 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 CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Grace Academy of Georgetown ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CASA of Williamson County Texas ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GEORGETOWN ↗
- Who funds The Georgetown Project ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN CARING PLACE ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OFGEORGETOWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GRATITUDE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Honor Flight Austin ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Georgetown Backpack Buddies ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ROTARY CLUB OF GEORGETOWN - SUN CITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION GEORGETOWN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE GEORGETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
- Who funds LIVING GRACE CANINE RANCH ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds Literacy Council of Williamson County ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF STRENGTH GIVING CIRCLE ↗
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: Georgetown Healthcare System Inc · Central Texas Community Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Williamson County · United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · W D Kelley Foundation · The Moody Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Topfer Family Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr
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 Georgetown Area Community Foundation 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.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
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.