How much did MAKE THE CONNECTION grant in FY2024?

MAKE THE CONNECTION reported 5 grants totaling $391,107 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is MAKE THE CONNECTION based?

MAKE THE CONNECTION is based in TX.

MAKE THE CONNECTION

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

MAKE THE CONNECTION

To operate exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific or literary purposes by engaging directly in support of such purposes or by making distributions to other organizations for use in such purposes.

$391k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$185k

Largest

01What you fund

0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.

Recreation & Sports$650kPublic Benefit$287kHuman Services$200kCommunity Improvement$153kYouth Development$13kCrime & Legal$12kPhilanthropy$8kOther$250k

02beneath 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

2022

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2023

golf

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k2 grants · $24k
$50k–250k2 grants · $338k

$12,500

Median grant

States reached

$5k

Total assets

Largest grants

SERGIO AND ANGELA GARCIA FOUNDATION$185,000
TEXAS ONE FUND$152,940
YOUNG LIFE$12,500
CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION$11,667
LONGHORN FOUNDATION$7,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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.

The Junior League of Austin Inc

The junior league of austin is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

Community Improvement

Tennessee Golf Foundation

To promote golf and its life-enhancing values with an emphasis on teaching the youth, veterans and the disadvantaged.

Arts & Culture

The Texas Golf Association

The texas golf association is one of the largest and most respected golf associations in the country, with an ongoing commitment of ensuring that the top resources and most dependable staff are in place to meet current and future needs of…

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Texas Health Physicians Group

A FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF the people in the communities it serves, regarless of thier ability to pay.

Health

Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association

Recreation & Sports

Astros Golf Foundation

Enriching the lives of houstonians and empowering the community through the game of golf

Philanthropy

Arizona Golf Foundation

The mission of the Arizona Golf Foundation is to perform research on the economic benefits of golf in Arizona, including turf research to improve and benefit the environment, promote junior golf, and assist in the development of low cost…

Recreation & Sports

Carolinas Golf Association

The cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…

Recreation & Sports

Amateur Golf Alliance

Our mission is to provide the championship with its playability and unique hole designs in the DFW area. We also offer the players golf courses to support and promote amateur golfers with more opportunities to compete at national and…

Recreation & Sports

Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health

Child and Family Guidance Center of

The child and family guidance center of texoma exists to strengthen, improve and empower the lives of hurting texoma children and families through compassionate and restorative mental healthcare.

Health

The University of Texas Law School

Provide support to the University of Texas School of Law.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation Fka Cmc Foundation of Central Texas and the most unlike its peers is Candid. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/9

Grantees still filing

8/9

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Recreation & Sports$650,275Public Benefit$287,000Other$250,000Human Services$200,000Community Improvement$152,940Youth Development$12,500Crime & Legal$11,667Philanthropy$7,500

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.

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.

The Sergio and Angela Garcia FoundationTX16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sergio and Angela Garcia Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation MAKE THE CONNECTION 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SERGIO AND ANGELA GARCIA FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~18 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 920988449 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SERGIO AND ANGELA GARCIA FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 18 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Make the Connection?

Find your warmest path to Make the Connection 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.

MAKE THE CONNECTION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Make the Connection?

More from the funding graph

MAKE THE CONNECTION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Make the Connection?

More from the funding graph