· Private foundation
HHL Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of HHL Foundation’s FY2024 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. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year HHL Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 21 organizations, $50k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k27 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $20,500 |
| Ojai Playwrights Conference | $20,000 |
| LBJ Foundation | $2,500 |
| Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center | $1,000 |
| United Way of San Antonio | $1,000 |
| Rogers Park Montessori School | $259 |
| Sarah's Circle | $258 |
| Housing Opportunities for Women | $258 |
| Mother's Milk Bank | $250 |
| Kids In Need Of Defence | $250 |
| Whole Womans Advocacy Alliance | $250 |
| Deborahs Place | $250 |
| Age of Central Texas | $250 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $250 |
| Family Eldercare | $211 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2022, 31 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OPOJAI PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE7× · 2017–2023 · $82k · revenue +56%
- GPGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC2× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +18%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +102%
Funded once
Mercy Ships Internationalone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +18%- BSBarton Springs Conservancyone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -40%
- ESENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +201%
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.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
How this is measured
69 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. 69 of the 97 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 AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OJAI PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Health Alliance for Austin Musicians ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds Safe Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WHOLE WOMAN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE REFUGE FOR DMST ↗
- Who funds Texas Book Festival ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds HELP OF OJAI INC ↗
- Who funds THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ELDERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds ROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Barton Springs Conservancy ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND 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 · St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · One Skye Foundation Inc · Ecg Foundation · David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Better Business Bureau · United Way Worldwide · Scott & White Hospital Round Rock · The Bill M and Cecile Autrey Ham Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization HHL Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from HHL Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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