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Harry and Rubye Gaston Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$907k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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100% of Harry and Rubye Gaston Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Austin Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’19
1
’20
1
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2022
$536,903
Largest grant, FY2022
$536,903
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2022
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Harry and Rubye Gaston Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20212$84k0%
FY20202$33k50%
FY20191$5kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Philanthropy$907kEducation$108kArts & Culture$14k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum$13,50031%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to Harry and Rubye Gaston 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.

About Harry and Rubye Gaston Foundation

How much does Harry and Rubye Gaston Foundation give?
Harry and Rubye Gaston Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $906,903 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does Harry and Rubye Gaston Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (88%), Education (11%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Who are Harry and Rubye Gaston Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2021: Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum ($14k).
Does Harry and Rubye Gaston Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harry and Rubye Gaston Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Harry and Rubye Gaston Foundation based?
Harry and Rubye Gaston Foundation is based in TX.

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 3 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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