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Inman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $63,500 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $7,500 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION | $5,000 |
| KEY TO CHANGE | $5,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ZACH THEATRE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN | $3,500 |
| CARITAS OF AUSTIN | $3,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS | $3,500 |
| SAMARITAN CENTER | $3,000 |
| RAINFOREST PARTNERSHIP | $2,500 |
| LIFESPACE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $26k) 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.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY3× · 2019–2025 · $38k · revenue +13%
- KTKEY TO CHANGE7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +761%
TEXAS TRIBUNE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $32k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- ACAustin Child Guidance Centerone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +4%
- TRTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +45%
- COCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -29%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humanities Texas and the most unlike its peers is Naval Intelligence Professionals. 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
51 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. 51 of the 67 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds KEY TO CHANGE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Excellence in Education ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC AGENDA INC ↗
- Who funds NAVAL AVIATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Austin Child Guidance Center ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
- Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds Naval Intelligence Professionals ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TADSAW INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Buena Vista Foundation · Still Water Foundation · Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation · Ascension Seton · Better Business Bureau · Greater Houston Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Ibm International 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 Inman Foundation 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.
- Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- United States Naval Institute — 3% of income from government
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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