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Koonce Family 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $380k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $944k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON | $175,000 |
| LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY | $140,000 |
| BERING DRIVE CHURCH OF CHRIST | $100,000 |
| SAFE IN AUSTIN RESCUE RANCH | $80,000 |
| IMPACT HOUSTON CHURCH OF CHRIST | $75,000 |
| LIFELINE CHAPLAINCY INC | $75,000 |
| MEDIA PROJECTS FOR RELATIONSHIPS | $75,000 |
| ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| STRONGER THAN PARKINSONS | $60,000 |
| LIFE AFTER LOSS | $54,000 |
| AFRICAN OUTREACH MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| ST JULIAN OF NORWICH EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $40,000 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $35,000 |
| IRC - INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $35,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $939k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +25% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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
- LULIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $710k · revenue +41%
- LCLifeline Chaplaincy Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $370k · revenue +36%
- MPMEDIA PROJECTS FOR RELATIONSHIPS DBA HEARTBEAT6× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATERone grant, 2020 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
- ADAMIGOS DE LOS CORALES DE TELAone grant, 2024 · $15k
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 ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
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,…
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Technoserve's mission is to fight poverty by helping people build regenerative farms, businesses, and markets that increase incomes.
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…
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
The national domestic violence hotline provides crisis intervention, saftey planning, resources, information, and referrals to those affected by relationship abuse.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Mom Hugs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stronger Than Parkinson's. 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 36 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 73 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 LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Lifeline Chaplaincy Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MEDIA PROJECTS FOR RELATIONSHIPS DBA HEARTBEAT ↗
- Who funds Institute for Christian Studies ↗
- Who funds Stronger Than Parkinson's ↗
- Who funds PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP ↗
- Who funds Life After Loss ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds SAFE IN AUSTIN RESCUE RANCH ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY APARTMENTS ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PRACTICE ↗
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds Target Hunger Inc ↗
- Who funds Church of Christ Student Foundation ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
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 · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Wright Family Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Gannett Foundation Inc
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 Koonce 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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.