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Lgr Foundation

Its FY2024 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 FY2024still arriving
66
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$7.6MHuman Services$415kHealth$326kEducation$319kCrime & Legal$266kFood & Nutrition$242kAnimals$228kInternational$210kOther$0
02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k58 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $320k
$20,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$75,000
AMERICARES$75,000
CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION$60,000
HELPING HAND HOME$60,000
YOUTH WITH A MISSION$50,000
CASA OF TRAVIS COUNTY$40,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$40,000
OUT YOUTH AUSTIN$40,000
AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$35,000
GABRIEL'S HOUSE$30,000
FUND TEXAS CHOICE$30,000
FOS FEMINISTA$25,000
TEXAS ADVOCACY PROJECT$25,000
CARITAS OF AUSTIN$25,000
MANOS DE CRISTO INC$25,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–24, $338k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $20k → 10%SAVE OUR ALLIES: $25k → 13%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $18k → 14%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $75k → 14%THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%HEALING WITH HORSES RANCH: $20k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $20k → 10%HEALING WITH HORSES RANCH: $20k → 10%DRIVE A SENIOR AUSTIN TEXAS: $15k → 10%DRIVE A SENIOR AUSTIN TEXAS: $15k → 10%AUSTIN AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%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

MN
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NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
AZ
NC
DC
HI
OK
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 34 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
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Total granted

$1.7M
$624k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+20%

Still filing today

85%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $740k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsCivil RightsInternationalOther
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

  • TD
    THE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT
    2× · 2020–2023 · $95k · revenue +24%
  • OY
    Out Youth Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +53%
  • CO
    CAMP OF THE HILLS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +20%
  • Central Texas Food Bank Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -28%
  • NF
    NORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +28%
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.

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Austin Street Center

The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…

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2
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
3
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
4
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
5
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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6
Texas Defender Service

See Schedule OTDS fights for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education. TDS stands up for the dignity and humanity of people harmed by mass…

Civil Rights
7
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
8
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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9
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
10
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
11
Central Texas Spca

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…

Animals
12
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc

The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Praxis Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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

71 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. 71 of the 91 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
38/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,384,100 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $150,000 · PhilanthropyCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $82,000 · OtherYOUTH WITH A MISSION: $73,000 · OtherMANOS DE CRISTO INC: $65,000 · OtherAUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $95,000 · OtherCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $75,000 · Other+52 more: $1,407,000 · Other+52 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $75,000 · Human ServicesGREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Human ServicesHEALING WITH HORSES RANCH: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesDRIVE A SENIOR AUSTIN TEXAS: $30,000 · Human ServicesSave Our Allies: $25,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS: $20,000 · Human ServicesAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $20,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $18,000 · Human ServicesMARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesDIRECT RELIEF: $100,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $40,000 · InternationalREFUGEPOINT INC: $35,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $25,000 · InternationalPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $59,000 · HealthSTAR LEGACY FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $42,000 · HealthMotorcycle Missions: $30,000 · HealthHOPE HOUSE INC: $30,000 · HealthTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $30,000 · HealthCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $120,000 · Crime & LegalNORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER: $50,000 · Crime & LegalCLEANSLATE-LA: $45,000 · Crime & LegalBookSpring: $50,000 · EducationSAN MIGUEL-CASA INC: $40,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $25,000 · EducationAUSTIN PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $20,000 · EducationHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $20,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · Education
Philanthropy$7,534,100Other$1,872,000Human Services$338,000International$275,000Health$236,000Crime & Legal$215,000Education$160,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,384,100 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $120,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $95,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $82,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANOS DE CRISTO INC: $65,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOut Youth Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCAMP OF THE HILLS: $60,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $59,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBookSpring: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Advocacy Project: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCLEANSLATE-LA: $45,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTAR LEGACY FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $42,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHEALING WITH HORSES RANCH: $40,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES: $40,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSAN MIGUEL-CASA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEPOINT INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMotorcycle Missions: $30,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetTHE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGUARDIANS OF THE CHILDREN: $30,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetFUND TEXAS CHOICE: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDRIVE A SENIOR AUSTIN TEXAS: $30,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSave Our Allies: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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 Foun…St David's FoundationThe Moody FoundationUnited Way for Greate…Better Business BureauTopfer Family Foundat…Impact Austin Foundat…Shield-Ayres Foundati…United Way WorldwideCarl C Anderson Sr an…James R Dougherty Jr …Harry E and Eda L Mon…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX45.8× affinity22 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 · The Moody Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Better Business Bureau · Topfer Family Foundation · Impact Austin Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · James R Dougherty Jr Foundation Inc · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr

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 Lgr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lgr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Lgr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lgr Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 91 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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