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Joni Elaine Templeton Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$153k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
12%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 18
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Joni Elaine Templeton Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyReligionHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$128k7%
FY202417$118k12%
FY202318$128k28%
FY202217$135k6%
FY202115$115k33%
FY202015$115k53%
FY201717$116kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Health$318kFood & Nutrition$98kEducation$98kAnimals$93kHuman Services$83kHousing & Shelter$70kPhilanthropy$65kCrime & Legal$28kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joni Elaine Templeton Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Arc of the Capital Area: $70,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHospice Austin: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Austin Center for Grief and Loss: $60,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetRutledge Cancer Foundation: $60,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $50,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Pets Alive Inc: $42,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSt Edwards University: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Habitat for Humanity Inc: $30,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Central Texas: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCaritas of Austin: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMobile Loaves & Fishes Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSeedling Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Gladney Center for Adoption: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBookSpring: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNami North Texas: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHome Point: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAustin Clubhouse Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels and More Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Food Center: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Safe Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Child Guidance Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHill Country Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSpecial Olympics of Texas Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Child Protection: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShadow Cats Rescue: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAustin Diaper Bank: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

St David's FoundationTX28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shield-Ayres Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Better Business Bureau · Donald D Hammill Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · Charles Schwab Foundation · Impact Austin Foundation · Mr and Mrs Nelson Rusche Foundation

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.

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About Joni Elaine Templeton Charitable Foundation

How much does Joni Elaine Templeton Charitable Foundation give?
Joni Elaine Templeton Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $152,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Joni Elaine Templeton Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (36%), Food & Nutrition (11%), Education (11%).
Who are Joni Elaine Templeton Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Arc of the Capital Area ($70k), Hospice Austin ($70k), The Austin Center for Grief and Loss ($60k).
Does Joni Elaine Templeton Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joni Elaine Templeton Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joni Elaine Templeton Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St David's Foundation, The Moody Foundation, Topfer Family Foundation.
Where is Joni Elaine Templeton Charitable Foundation based?
Joni Elaine Templeton Charitable Foundation is based in TX.

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 40 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-PF 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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