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· Public charity
KEEP AUSTIN FED
Reduce hunger and help the environment by connecting surplus food with our neighbors in need.
$2.1M
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
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Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
nutritious needyneedy members
2019
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2020
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2021
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2023
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $2,052,055.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$426k
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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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
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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
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Austin Street Center
Austin street center provides emergency shelter and related services to the homeless.
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Austin Affordable Housing
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
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HousingWorks Austin
To provide research, education and advocacy related to affordable housing.
Housing & Shelter
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Htx Hope Haven
We are moving people from crisis to lifelong self-sufficiency. We help the homeless and marginalized people in our community navigate through the services available to become self-supporting contributing members of our community.
Human Services
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Front Steps Inc
Front Steps is responsible for managing the Austin Resource for the Homeless located in downtown Austin, which serves as a central point of intake and assessment for homeless persons. Front Steps also assists its clients with recuperative…
Housing & Shelter
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LifeHouse of Houston Inc
LifeHouse operates an apartment complex for shelter and support for pregnant women and new mothers.
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Ending Community Homelessness Coalition Inc
Dedicated to planning, prioritizing, and developing strategies to end homelessness in Austin,Texas.
Human Services
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Homeless Network of Texas
To lead texas communities to make homelessness rare, brief and non- recurring. to help communities strategically plan to prevent and end homelessness.
Community Improvement
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Good Work Austin
Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.
Public Benefit
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Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc
Vision: a world where everyone has a decent, affordable place to live. mission: through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Austin and the most unlike its peers is Foundation Communities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
4%
2/48
the rest of the field
11%
955/8,903
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.
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.
United Way for Greater AustinTX49.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: United Way for Greater Austin · Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · Religious Coalition to Assist the Homeless · Better Business Bureau · The Moody Foundation · Donald D Hammill Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin · Texas State Affordable Housing · JP's Peace Love & Happiness Foundation · Episcopal Health 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.
04Through Plinth
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Keep Austin Fed?
Find your warmest path to Keep Austin Fed through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines