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I Live Here I Give Here

I LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE is on a mission to amplify giving in central texas through cultivating and creating deeper connections for givers and the issues they care about.

$219k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Animals$450kHealth$224kFood & Nutrition$184kHuman Services$151kYouth Development$111kCrime & Legal$62kHousing & Shelter$48kArts & Culture$46kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $64,059 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $218,982 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $154,923 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
$9,962
Median grant
1
States reached
$533k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHADOW CATS$18,735
MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES$14,839
FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES$9,962
CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK$8,062
AUSTIN PETS ALIVE$7,436
HOUSE RABBIT RESOURCE NETWORK$5,025
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 (FY17–20, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Foster Village: $6k → 10%Hospice Austin: $23k → 10%Hospice Austin: $18k → 10%Hospice Austin: $16k → 10%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $6k → 10%YMCA of Austin: $23k → 10%YMCA of Austin: $18k → 10%YMCA of Austin: $8k → 10%YMCA OF AUSTIN: $8k → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of I Live Here I Give Here’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 62% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 100% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

I Live Here I Give Herelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$916k · 21 repeat orgs$412k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
46

Total granted

$916k
$407k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $111k · revenue +38%
  • SC
    SHADOW CATS RESCUE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +321%
  • Central Texas Food Bank Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • AA
    Austin Area Urban League
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -19%
  • AR
    AUSTIN RECOVERY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue -91%
  • KA
    KEEP AUSTIN BEAUTIFUL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +109%

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
Throw a Dog a Bone Dog Rescue

Throw a Dog a Bone is an all-breed dog rescue located in Austin, TX. We focus on saving dogs primarily in the rural shelters in South Texas. Many of these shelters have no exposure and very few resources. Our mission is to rescue as many…

Animals
2
Paws of Austin Protection of Animal Welfare Services

PAWS' purpose is to provide refuge to stray and unwanted animals. PAWS' mission is to prevent cruelty to all animals by promoting humane standards through education and example, to provide care and shelter for homeless animals, aid in the…

Animals
3
Allies Haven Animal Rescue

Saving unwanted, abandoned, abused and neglected dogs in Texas. Also to promote proper pet ownership, community educational programs and to support spaying/neutering as a means to control unwanted pets. We provide complete vetting prior to…

Animals
4
South Texas Animal Rescue Group

We own and operate a spay/neuter and wellness clinic. Our purpose is to end animal cruelty in Texas, spay/neuter, vaccinate, and end the dumping and abandonment of cats and dogs. We also have an education program to teach Texas residents…

Animals
5
Houston Cares Animal Rescue

Houston Cares Rescue is a volunteer organization rescuing animals from the streets, and occasionally from shelters, in Houston, TX, and caring for them primarily with foster families until a loving home can be found. We operate a…

Animals
6
Animal Allies of Texas Inc

Provide quality of life for pets owners in our area

Animals
7
Animal Friends of Austin County

Vaccinate, microchip, spay/neuter, and provide shelter and other veterinary care for stray or abandoned dogs. find permanent homes for dogs.

Animals
8
San Antonio Pets Alive Inc

The mission of San Antonio Pets Alive! is to save every adoptable dog and cat in danger of being killed at the City of San Antonio Shelter.

Animals
9
Houston Pets Alive

Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.

Animals
10
Texas Rescue Inc
Animals
11
Texas Round Up Animal Alliance Inc

Adoption and shelter facility for unwanted, abandoned and neglected animals. provide aid to the community who need help with vetting or care of their animals.

Animals
12
Animal Resource Center Inc

To prevent the overpopulation of cats and dogs by funding spay and neuter services for domestic animals owned by the residents of San Antonio and Bexar County. To develop, promote, and sponsor programs of education to encourage better…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marisa Magel Memorial Fund the Missy Project. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDog Rescue and AdoptionAffordable Housing Developm…Health Advocacy FoundationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsIndependent Schools and Ear…Residential Care for Vulner…Family Philanthropic Founda…Healthcare Industry Associa…Senior & Disability Support…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number29%0%<5yr15%15%5–10yr17%23%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr11%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value29%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr17%12%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr11%16%55yr+

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/76
the rest of the field
13%
1,518/11,336

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.

05the grantee network

69 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/69
Grantees still filing
47/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SHADOW CATS RESCUE — $108,086 · AnimalsSHADOW CATS RESCUEAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $74,372 · AnimalsAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC+22 more — $202,857 · Animals+22 moreTHE SAFE ALLIANCE — $42,536 · OtherTHE SAFE ALLIANCEMANOS DE CRISTO INC — $26,228 · OtherMANOS DE CRISTO INCANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC — $24,535 · OtherANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INCYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $17,202 · OtherHealth Alliance for Austin Musicians — $40,412 · OtherHealth Alliance for Austin Musician…FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC — $39,668 · OtherFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INCCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION — $30,792 · OtherCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION+23 more — $198,532 · Other+23 moreHOSPICE AUSTIN — $72,008 · Human ServicesHOSPICE AUSTINYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN — $56,118 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CH…Austin Area Urban League — $12,742 · Human ServicesAustin Area Ur…Austin Justice Coalition — $9,245 · Human ServicesAustin Justice…YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE — $7,861 · Human ServicesFOSTER VILLAGE INC — $6,272 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY INC — $111,263 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …Central Texas Food Bank Inc — $89,630 · Food & NutritionCentral T…MEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC — $18,766 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON …MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $76,060 · ReligionAIDS SERVICES OF AUSTIN INC — $31,483 · HealthAUSTIN RECOVERY INC — $12,595 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $11,951 · HealthTHE SIMS FOUNDATION INC — $6,882 · Health
Animals$385,315Other$419,905Human Services$164,246Youth Development$111,263Food & Nutrition$108,396Religion$76,060Health$62,911

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY INC — $111,263 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSHADOW CATS RESCUE — $108,086 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $89,630 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $76,060 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $74,372 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE AUSTIN — $72,008 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN — $56,118 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE — $42,536 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHealth Alliance for Austin Musicians — $40,412 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC — $39,668 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAIDS SERVICES OF AUSTIN INC — $31,483 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION — $30,792 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMANOS DE CRISTO INC — $26,228 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC — $24,535 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC — $18,766 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $17,202 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Area Urban League — $12,742 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN RECOVERY INC — $12,595 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCreative Action — $12,094 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $11,951 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC — $11,886 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKEEP AUSTIN BEAUTIFUL INC — $11,796 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHumane Heroes Inc — $11,737 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Texas SPCA — $11,522 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKIDS IN A NEW GROOVE — $11,397 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetALL THINGS WILD REHABILITATION INC — $10,674 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCentral Texas Animal Sanctuary — $10,538 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Public For Animal Welfare Inc — $10,527 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWILLIAMSON COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $10,417 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFERALLIFE GUARDS — $10,350 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetAmerican Artists Project — $10,309 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GEORGETOWN ANIMAL SHELTER — $10,285 over 1y, 14% of budgetAUSTIN SIAMESE RESCUE INC — $10,146 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTER — $10,089 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetSAFE IN AUSTIN RESCUE RANCH — $9,801 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBastrop Cats Anonymous TNR Society Bastrop Cats Inc — $9,800 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetSPIRIT REINS INC — $9,781 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOCIETY FOR ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION — $9,671 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCrowe's Nest Farm Inc — $9,630 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLAGO VISTA PET ADOPTION AND WELFARE SERVICE INC dba Lifelong Friends Pet Adoptions — $9,565 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetDREAMTIME ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $9,546 over 1y, 20% of budgetShelter Pet Safety Net — $9,543 over 1y, 20% of budgetAustin Justice Coalition — $9,245 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCENTRAL TEXAS ALLIED HEALTH INSTITUTE — $8,031 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAustin Child Guidance Center — $7,985 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE — $7,861 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN FARM SANCTUARY AKA FULLER-WIGGS FARMS ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $7,005 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SIMS FOUNDATION INC — $6,882 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Foun…St David's FoundationUnited Way for Greate…The Moody FoundationTopfer Family Foundat…United Way WorldwideThe Barilla Foundatio…Charles Schwab Founda…The Henry FoundationThe Applied Materials…The Bill M and Cecile…Rwh Foundation
Austin Community Foundation IncTX69.6× affinity37 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 · United Way for Greater Austin · The Moody Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Barilla Foundation Inc · Charles Schwab Foundation · The Henry Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · The Bill M and Cecile Autrey Ham Charitable Foundation · Rwh 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 I Live Here I Give Here 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 68 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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