· Community foundation
Central Texas Community Foundation
To serve as a catalyst to nurture and inspire philanthropic giving, to build "community capital" through a permanent endowment fund, to provide a flexible vehicle for donors with varied philanthropic interests, to take initiative in addressing needs and shaping effective responses and to enrich the quality of life in the central texas…
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 65 grants below total $3,067,711 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,517,925 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,450,214 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 $10k5 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $894k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $829k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE ALLIANCE | $1,012,000 |
| THE ASSOC OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TAMU | $300,000 |
| DELL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| TEXAS ONE FUND INC | $100,000 |
| SETON WILLIAMSON FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $95,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN | $75,000 |
| FOSTER ANGELS | $62,500 |
| HONOR FLIGHT AUSTIN | $61,400 |
| ROCK (RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS) | $60,000 |
| SHEPHERD THEM ALL INC | $50,400 |
| MAESTRO CARES FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HELPING HAND HOME | $50,000 |
| BACKPACK FRIENDS | $45,000 |
| AUSTIN RIDGE BIBLE CHURCH | $40,000 |
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, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% 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.
77 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 24 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $790k 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
- BIBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +217%
- WCWILLIAMSON COUNTY CRISIS CENTER5× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +260%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS8× · 2017–2024 · $647k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- TATHE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +50%
- HFHOLY FAMILY AMERICAN CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $200k
Central Texas Food Bank Incone grant, 2020 · $113k · revenue -28%
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.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…
When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…
ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.
Teen and Family Services Austin provides counseling and education on an individual as well as group basis to provide support to parents and teens who are coping with teen high risk behavior.
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.
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascension Seton Williamson Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Md Anderson Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
125 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 125 of the 151 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 Round Rock Area Serving Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Honor Flight Austin ↗
- Who funds THE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION SETON ↗
- Who funds ANNIE'S WAY JUST BECAUSE MINISTRIES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Humane Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds I LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATION OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds ALPINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Sacred Heart Community Clinic ↗
- Who funds CANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GEORGETOWN ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Texas One Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FERALLIFE GUARDS ↗
- Who funds THE ANNUNCIATION MATERNITY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Independent Identity ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Georgetown Healthcare System Inc · Georgetown Area Community Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · United Way of Williamson County · Topfer Family Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · United Way Worldwide · Better Business Bureau
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 Central Texas 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 World Relief Inc — 47% 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.