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Impact Austin Foundation

Impact austin provides high-impact grants to local nonprofits through a collective giving model and is funded by its members.

$310k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$772kHuman Services$714kHealth$582kHousing & Shelter$235kCrime & Legal$220kArts & Culture$190kYouth Development$181kFood & Nutrition$155kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $300,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $309,756 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,256 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $240k
$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$456k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GET UP PROJECT$80,000
OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS$80,000
BLACK MAMAS ATX$80,000
AUSTIN SUNSHINE CAMPS$18,000
GOOD WORK AUSTIN$18,000
BREAKTHROUGH$18,000
SAINT LOUISE HOUSE$6,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $524k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $25k → 10%TEXAS FAMILY INITIATIVE LLC: $9k → 16%BLACK MAMAS ATX: $80k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $24k → 10%THE OTHERS ONES FOUNDATION: $75k → 10%AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE: $66k → 10%Helping Hand Home for Children: $112k → 10%AUSTIN DIAPA BANK: $20k → 10%WONDERS AND WORRIES: $8k → 10%OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $80k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$503k · 5 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
48

Total granted

$503k
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $301k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY
    2× · 2018–2024 · $127k · revenue +38%
  • SF
    SEEDLING FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2023 · $97k · revenue +59%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN
    2× · 2020–2024 · $71k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • JP
    JEREMIAH PROGRAMgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $112k · revenue +182%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXASgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $112k · revenue +129%
  • HH
    HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $112k · revenue +44%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Leadership Austin

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

Youth Development
2
Center for Austin Independent Journalism

To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Teen and Family Services Austin

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.

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5
HousingWorks Austin

To provide research, education and advocacy related to affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
6
Austin Community Law Center

The Austin Community Law Center is a nonprofit law firm. Our mission is to make legal representation radically more affordable, invest in a stronger community, and fight for justice.

Crime & Legal
7
Atx Helps

ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.

Human Services
8
Austin Affordable Housing Corporation

To ensure and preserve quality, affordable housing opportunities for low- to moderate-income families in austin as well as provide financial literacy and homeownership opportunities.

Housing & Shelter
9
Austin Street Center

The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…

—
10
Texans Care for Children Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
11
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
12
Austin Justice Coalition

Austin Justice Coalition educates, organizes, and empowers communities in Austin to build racial equity and dismantle systems of oppression through advocacy, policy change, and community programs.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Children - Austin; the most unlike its peers is Dreams Will Come True Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/58
Grantees still filing
38/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $127,300 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COU…THE SAFE ALLIANCE: $80,600 · OtherTHE SAFE ALLIANCEINTERFAITH ACTION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $80,600 · OtherINTERFAITH ACTION OF CENTRAL TEXASANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC: $80,600 · OtherANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INCAUSTIN TENANTS COUNCIL: $78,500 · OtherAUSTIN TENANTS COUNCILDreams Will Come True Foundation: $75,500 · OtherNAMI Central Texas: $75,000 · OtherCASA MARIANELLA INC: $75,000 · OtherAustin Child Guidance Center: $75,000 · OtherTHE MAGDALEN HOUSE: $65,900 · OtherAmerican Gateways: $100,000 · OtherAmerican GatewaysFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN: $71,125 · OtherAVANCE INC: $75,400 · OtherGET UP PROJECT: $80,000 · OtherGET UP PROJECT+16 more: $289,400 · Other+16 moreCon Mi MADRE: $190,500 · EducationCon Mi MADRECOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $111,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS …Measure Austin: $110,000 · EducationMeasure AustinSEEDLING FOUNDATION: $97,000 · EducationSEEDLING FOUNDATIONMAINSPRING SCHOOLS INC: $78,500 · EducationMAINSPRING SCHOOLS INCAUSTIN EXPLORE INC: $75,500 · EducationAUSTIN EXPLORE INCBookSpring: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $36,800 · EducationHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $111,500 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND HOME FOR…KIDS WRITE GOOD: $100,000 · Human ServicesKIDS WRITE GOODBLACK MAMAS VILLAGE: $80,000 · Human ServicesBLACK MAMAS VILLAGEOPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL: $80,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLTHE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION: $75,400 · Human ServicesTHE OTHER ONES FOUNDA…AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE: $65,900 · Human ServicesAUSTIN CREATIVE REUSEFII - NATIONAL: $25,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY ELDERCARE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $24,100 · Human Services+4 more: $53,900 · Human Services+4 moreHalf-Helen Foundation: $100,000 · HealthLIRIOS PEDIATRICS: $96,500 · HealthTexas Advocacy Project: $90,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC: $80,600 · Arts & CultureHISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $18,800 · Arts & CultureWelcome Table Incorporated: $75,000 · Food & NutritionKEEP AUSTIN FED: $63,400 · Food & NutritionJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $111,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,429,925Education$724,800Human Services$640,800Health$196,500Arts & Culture$189,900Food & Nutrition$138,400Housing & Shelter$111,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCon Mi MADRE: $190,500 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $127,300 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $111,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $111,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $111,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMeasure Austin: $110,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetAmerican Gateways: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKIDS WRITE GOOD: $100,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSEEDLING FOUNDATION: $97,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetLIRIOS PEDIATRICS: $96,500 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTexas Advocacy Project: $90,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC: $80,600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC: $80,600 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBLACK MAMAS VILLAGE: $80,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetGET UP PROJECT: $80,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAUSTIN TENANTS COUNCIL: $78,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetMAINSPRING SCHOOLS INC: $78,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAUSTIN EXPLORE INC: $75,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION: $75,400 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAVANCE INC: $75,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI Central Texas: $75,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCASA MARIANELLA INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWelcome Table Incorporated: $75,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetAustin Child Guidance Center: $75,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN: $71,125 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE MAGDALEN HOUSE: $65,900 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE: $65,900 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetKEEP AUSTIN FED: $63,400 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBookSpring: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN A NEW GROOVE: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFAMILY ELDERCARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWestcave Outdoor Discovery Center: $24,100 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $24,100 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAsian American Resource Center Inc Austin Asian Community Health Initiative: $22,600 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetJOLT INITIATIVE: $22,600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAUSTIN DIAPER BANK: $19,600 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEcology Action of Texas Inc: $19,600 over 1y, 22% of budgetLITERACY COALITION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $18,800 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $18,800 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGIRLSTART: $18,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYELLOW BIKE PROJECT: $18,800 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGood Work Austin: $18,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION: $16,700 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS: $16,400 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLATINITAS INC: $15,800 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTFI FAMILY SERVICES INC: $9,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REFUGE FOR DMST: $8,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Austin Community Foun…St David's FoundationUnited Way for Greate…Better Business BureauShield-Ayres Foundati…The Moody FoundationTopfer Family Foundat…Donald D Hammill Foun…Harry E and Eda L Mon…A Glimmer of Hope Fou…Ecg FoundationAlice Kleberg Reynold…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX79.2× affinity41 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 · Better Business Bureau · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Donald D Hammill Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin · Ecg Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Impact Austin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Impact Austin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    29report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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

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