· Private foundation
Jack and Joyce Sampson Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUSTIN THE SAFE ALLIANCE | $8,000 |
| EVERY TEXAN FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| CASA OF TRAVIS COUNTY | $8,000 |
| TEXAS CASA INC | $8,000 |
| PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC | $8,000 |
| UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN | $6,000 |
| KLRU-TV AUSTIN PBS | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $4,000 |
| VOLUNTEER LEGAL SVCS OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| PARENTS & FRIENDS OF LASA (PFLASA) | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +66% since the first grant, against +61% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PCPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC7× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +82%
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY7× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +35%
- TCTEXAS CASA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- KKUTone grant, 2019 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- VLVOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL TEXASgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +27%
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.
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.
The Texas Association of Museums strengthens the Texas museum community through collaborations, connections, professional development, and advocacy.
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…
The association exists to advance the science of jurisprudence; to facilitate and improve the administration of justice; to maintain and to elevate standards of professional conduct; to increase professional skills through regular…
Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
Texas library association (tla) was established in 1902 to promote, support, and improve library services in texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% 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 17% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 47 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 PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CASA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds Center for Public Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PFLASA ↗
- Who funds CASA of Williamson County Texas ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of WRR ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORT WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Fort Worth SPARC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH MODERN ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
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 · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · St David's Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Rachael and Ben Vaughan Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Bar Foundation · The Moody Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Jack and Joyce Sampson Family 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.
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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