· Private foundation
Joe B Foster Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA of Greater Houston | $80,000 |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $29,000 |
| St Louis Catholic School | $15,000 |
| Coastal Mountain Land Trust | $10,000 |
| Lifelong Friends Pet Adoptions | $10,000 |
| Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Ranch | $10,000 |
| Austin Animal Center | $10,000 |
| StTheresa Catholic Church | $10,000 |
| Hope for Paws | $10,000 |
| Farnsworth Art Museum | $10,000 |
| Center for Maine Contemporary Art | $5,000 |
| St Louis Catholic Church | $5,000 |
| Waterfall Arts | $5,000 |
| St Michael's Academy | $5,000 |
| The Gentle Barn Foundation | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $525k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- TATexas A&M Foundation7× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +90%
- TETHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE8× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +13%
- TWTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $50k
- RMREASONING MIND INCone grant, 2017 · $25k
- SHSEARCH HOMELESS SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…
Animal rescue and rehabilitation
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Let love live's mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in need, ensuring they receive the love, care, and respect they deserve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc. 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 39 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 58 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.
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- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Coastal Mountains Land Trust ↗
- Who funds SAFE IN AUSTIN RESCUE RANCH ↗
- Who funds WATERFALL ARTS ↗
- Who funds UNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds REASONING MIND INC ↗
- Who funds Restorative Justice Project Maine ↗
- Who funds ST DOMINIC VILLAGE ↗
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- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN ZOO INC ↗
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- Who funds Film Society of Austin Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston's Amazing Place Inc ↗
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- Who funds Catholic Charities of Central Texas ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Dachshund Rescue ↗
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 · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Rjm Stein Family Foundation · Otter Island Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bertuzzi Family Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Texas Instruments 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 Joe B Foster 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.
- National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc — 0% 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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