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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$1.5MHuman Services$1.3MEducation$1.2MInternational$735kHealth$436kPhilanthropy$425kCommunity Improvement$320kAnimals$192kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $380k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $944k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MEDIA PROJECTS FOR RELATIONSHIPS$75,000
LIFELINE CHAPLAINCY INC$75,000
STRONGER THAN PARKINSONS$60,000
ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$60,000
LIFE AFTER LOSS$54,000
AFRICAN OUTREACH MINISTRIES$50,000
WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY$40,000
ST JULIAN OF NORWICH EPISCOPAL CHURCH$40,000
IRC - INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$35,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$35,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PATH: $50k → 12%PATH: $50k → 12%PATH: $50k → 12%PATH: $50k → 12%CITYSQUARE: $135k → 14%PATH: $30k → 12%CITYSQUARE: $125k → 14%PATH: $30k → 12%CITYSQUARE: $108k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $101k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $100k → 14%GIVE DIRECT INC: $10k → 17%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CTR INC (HAWC): $10k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CTR INC (HAWC): $10k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CTR INC (HAWC): $10k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CTR INC (HAWC): $10k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $10k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $10k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $10k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $10k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $10k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
IA
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 45 repeat orgs$348k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
23

Total granted

$6.1M
$230k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+18%

Still filing today

78%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalAnimalsHealthEducationCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LU
    LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $710k · revenue +41%
  • LC
    Lifeline Chaplaincy Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $370k · revenue +36%
  • MP
    MEDIA PROJECTS FOR RELATIONSHIPS DBA HEARTBEAT
    6× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • AD
    AMIGOS DE LOS CORALES DE TELA
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

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.

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2
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

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.…

Civil Rights
3
Equal Justice Center

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…

Civil Rights
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
6
Uatx

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,…

Education
7
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
8
Technoserve Inc

Technoserve's mission is to fight poverty by helping people build regenerative farms, businesses, and markets that increase incomes.

International
9
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
10
Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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11
Pathfinder International

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…

International
12
National Domestic Violence Hotline

The national domestic violence hotline provides crisis intervention, saftey planning, resources, information, and referrals to those affected by relationship abuse.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Mom Hugs Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
35/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $710,000 · OtherLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITYIMPACT CHURCH OF CHRIST: $400,000 · OtherIMPACT CHURCH OF CHRISTInstitute for Christian Studies: $300,000 · OtherInstitute for Christian StudiesST JULIAN OF NORWICH EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $207,000 · OtherST JULIAN OF NORWICH EPISCOPAL CHURCHHOSPITALITY APARTMENTS: $110,000 · OtherBERING DRIVE CHURCH OF CHRIST: $100,000 · OtherSAFE IN AUSTIN RESCUE RANCH: $155,000 · OtherSAFE IN AUSTIN RESCUE RANCH+41 more: $922,500 · Other+41 moreCITYSQUARE: $568,500 · Human ServicesCITYSQUAREMEDIA PROJECTS FOR RELATIONSHIPS DBA HEARTBEAT: $325,000 · Human ServicesMEDIA PROJECTS FOR REL…PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP: $260,000 · Human ServicesPATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTI…Target Hunger Inc: $60,000 · Human Services+4 more: $74,000 · Human Services+4 moreAFRICAN OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $365,000 · InternationalAFRICAN O…FAITH IN PRACTICE: $85,000 · InternationalFAITH IN …MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $62,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …ONE ACRE FUND: $20,000 · International+2 more: $17,500 · InternationalStronger Than Parkinson's: $284,000 · HealthStronger …Life After Loss: $224,000 · HealthLife Afte…+2 more: $11,500 · HealthWilliam Marsh Rice University: $190,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $112,500 · EducationFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $80,000 · EducationTHE MALALA FUND: $60,000 · EducationLifeline Chaplaincy Inc: $370,000 · ReligionChurch of Christ Student Foundation: $60,000 · ReligionUnited Way of Greater Houston: $375,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,904,500Human Services$1,287,500International$549,500Health$519,500Education$442,500Religion$430,000Philanthropy$375,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $710,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $568,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $375,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLifeline Chaplaincy Inc: $370,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetAFRICAN OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $365,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetMEDIA PROJECTS FOR RELATIONSHIPS DBA HEARTBEAT: $325,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetInstitute for Christian Studies: $300,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetStronger Than Parkinson's: $284,000 over 6y, 100% of budgetPATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP: $260,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetLife After Loss: $224,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $190,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE IN AUSTIN RESCUE RANCH: $155,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $112,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPITALITY APARTMENTS: $110,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE: $85,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $62,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGRAMEEN AMERICA INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChurch of Christ Student Foundation: $60,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetTarget Hunger Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN: $30,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetOCEANA INC: $26,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTeambrownsville Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOut Youth Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMIGOS DE LOS CORALES DE TELA: $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFREE MOM HUGS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetREFUGEE SERVICES OF TEXAS INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQTX Equality Texas Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA MARIANELLA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
  • Who funds GRAMEEN AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Church of Christ Student Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Target Hunger Inc ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
  • 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 Teambrownsville Inc ↗

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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Koonce Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Koonce Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 73 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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