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Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2023
70
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Health$3.0MHuman Services$2.6MEducation$963kYouth Development$850kHousing & Shelter$800kFood & Nutrition$570kRecreation & Sports$465kArts & Culture$340kOther$0
02FY2023 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k60 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $785k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCK-RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS$200,000
MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC$125,000
CASA ESPERANZA INC$100,000
FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS$60,000
SETTLEMENT HOME FOR CHILDREN$50,000
DOWN HOME RANCH INC$50,000
RISE ADVENTURES$50,000
HALF HELEN FOUNDATION$50,000
URBAN ROOTS$50,000
HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN$50,000
CANDLELIGHT RANCH$45,000
AUSTIN SMILES$40,000
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN$40,000
TEXAS RAMP PROJECT$40,000
DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER$40,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ADAPTIVE TRAINING FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $50k → 10%DOWN HOME RANCH: $100k → 12%SUMMERHOUSE HOUSTON: $25k → 16%DOWN HOME RANCH: $100k → 12%DOWN HOME RANCH: $75k → 12%VILLAGE LEARNING CENTER INC: $30k → 16%DOWN HOME RANCH INC: $50k → 12%CAL FARLEYS BOYS RANCH: $34k → 20%DOWN HOME RANCH: $40k → 12%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $25k → 10%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $25k → 10%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $25k → 10%BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN: $50k → 6%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $25k → 10%CLAYON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $35k → 14%CLAYON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $35k → 14%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $60k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $25k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $25k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $25k → 10%GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $50k → 10%GENAUSTIN: $30k → 10%HAND TO HOLD: $50k → 10%HAND TO HOLD: $50k → 10%HEAING WITH HORSES RANCH: $40k → 10%HEALING WITH HORSES RANCH: $30k → 10%HEALING WITH HORSES RANCH: $25k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $125k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 10%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $30k → 10%GENAUSTIN: $30k → 10%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $30k → 10%FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $60k → 10%FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $60k → 10%FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $60k → 10%FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $50k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 10%WONDERS & WORRIES: $50k → 10%WONDERS & WORRIES: $40k → 10%WONDERS & WORRIES: $30k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $50k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $30k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%THE MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.1M · 75 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

75 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2023, 25 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
35

Total granted

$9.1M
$957k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+15%

Still filing today

84%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $503k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • RR
    ROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $500k · revenue +101%
  • MF
    MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $450k · revenue +23%
  • DH
    DOWN HOME RANCH INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $365k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • BI
    BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -37%
  • DC
    DELL CHILDREN MEDICAL CENTER FDN
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • DC
    DELL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Texas Children's Home

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.

Human Services
2
Raise Texas

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…

Human Services
3
Any Baby Can of Austin Inc

Any baby can, an austin-based nonprofit, partners with parents so children reach their full potential. with programs that meet clients where they are at home, work or school any baby can provides in-home therapy, parent education, mental…

4
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
5
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
6
Leadership Austin

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

Youth Development
7
Austin Child Guidance Center

To improve the mental health of children and their families through early intervention, diagnosis, and treatment to help them develop the emotional skills for meeting life's challenges.

8
Achievement Center of Texas Inc

Provide day care, day habilitation (life skills training), arts exploration, educational assistance and community inclusion for children and young adults with special needs.

Human Services
9
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
10
HomeAid Austin Inc

Engage in building procted to provide emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent housing while offering job skills training and support to help residents move toward self-sufficiency.

Employment
11
Lone Star Casa Inc

Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…

Civil Rights
12
Children's Aid Society of West Tx Inc

To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Child Protection and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation At Shield Ranch. 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%1%<5yr16%5%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr11%34%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr11%34%35–55yr12%27%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/101
the rest of the field
16%
4,067/25,513

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.

04the grantee network

99 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 130 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/99
Grantees still filing
64/99
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 · Human ServicesMARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INCDOWN HOME RANCH INC — $365,000 · Human ServicesDOWN HOME RANCH INCFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION — $230,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS …HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $225,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN …Wonders & Worries Inc — $165,000 · Human ServicesWonders & Worries IncHOSPICE AUSTIN — $150,000 · Human ServicesHAND TO HOLD — $140,000 · Human ServicesAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY — $135,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY ELDERCARE INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesGENAUSTIN — $110,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE — $105,000 · Human Services+22 more — $747,236 · Human Services+22 moreANY BABY CAN — $200,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $190,000 · OtherDELL CHILDREN MEDICAL CENTER — $175,000 · OtherHOPE HOUSE OF AUSTIN — $150,000 · OtherTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC — $175,000 · OtherMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $235,000 · OtherMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INCAustin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles — $215,000 · OtherRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC — $185,000 · Other+54 more — $2,790,000 · Other+54 moreThe West Texas Rehabilitation Center — $250,000 · HealthThe West T…THE SETTLEMENT CLUB — $240,000 · HealthTHE SETTLE…Half-Helen Foundation — $235,000 · HealthHalf-Helen…Casa Esperanza Inc — $100,000 · HealthCasa Esper…PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $65,000 · HealthPEOPLE'S C…Phoenix Houses of Texas Inc — $50,000 · Health+3 more — $65,000 · Health+3 moreROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS INC — $500,000 · Recreation & SportsROCK RIDE…CANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION — $210,000 · Recreation & SportsCANDLELIG…RISE ADVENTURES INC — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsRISE ADVE…AUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP — $80,000 · Recreation & SportsAUSTIN YM…BREAKTHROUGH — $175,000 · EducationMAINSPRING SCHOOLS INC — $115,000 · EducationTHE RISE SCHOOL OF AUSTIN — $90,000 · EducationLITERACY COALITION OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $50,000 · EducationBookSpring — $50,000 · EducationE3 ALLIANCE — $40,000 · EducationTodos Juntos Learning Center — $25,000 · EducationCon Mi MADRE — $25,000 · Education+4 more — $47,500 · EducationCenter for Women and Their Work Inc — $175,000 · Arts & CultureCreative Action — $75,000 · Arts & CultureAnthropos Arts — $50,000 · Arts & CultureSAGE STUDIO & GALLERY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE — $40,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH — $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS — $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY INC — $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $35,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$2,947,236Other$4,315,000Health$1,005,000Recreation & Sports$890,000Education$617,500Arts & Culture$415,000Youth Development$390,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS INC — $500,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetMARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDOWN HOME RANCH INC — $365,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetThe West Texas Rehabilitation Center — $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB — $240,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHalf-Helen Foundation — $235,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $235,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION — $230,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $225,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAustin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles — $215,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetCANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION — $210,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $190,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC — $185,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH — $175,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC — $175,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCenter for Women and Their Work Inc — $175,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetWonders & Worries Inc — $165,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetHOSPICE AUSTIN — $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMIRACLE FARM INC — $140,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHAND TO HOLD — $140,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT — $135,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY — $135,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH — $125,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILY ELDERCARE INC — $125,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS — $120,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $115,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN — $115,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMAINSPRING SCHOOLS INC — $115,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY INC — $110,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGENAUSTIN — $110,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE — $105,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCasa Esperanza Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRISE ADVENTURES INC — $100,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetMark Kilroy Foundation — $100,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetBetter ATX — $95,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetHEALING WITH HORSES RANCH — $95,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY — $95,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION — $95,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RISE SCHOOL OF AUSTIN — $90,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP — $80,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCreative Action — $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE CAPITAL AREA — $75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER — $70,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDRIVE A SENIOR CENTRAL TEXAS — $50,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budget
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.

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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX99.2× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Topfer Family Foundation · Ecg Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · The Powell Foundation

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 Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

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    How do I get to Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr?

    Find your warmest path to Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 130 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.4M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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