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McBee Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUSTIN HISTORY CENTER ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| PEASE PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| PEOPLES COMMUNITY CLINIC | $10,000 |
| AUSTIN PBS | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| THE SAFE ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| UMLAUF SCULPTURE GARDEN & MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS | $5,000 |
| THE TRAIL CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| ALLEY THEATRE | $5,000 |
| THE RISE SCHOOL OF HOUSTON | $2,500 |
| THE HEART PROGRAM | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 12% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +66% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- PAPRESERVATION AUSTIN7× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +617% · 63% of their budget
- PCPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +82%
- TSTHE SAFE ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- SESt Edwards Universityone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -12%
- CACAPITOL AREA FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
The mission of Austin Creative Alliance is to advance, connect, and celebrate Austin's arts, culture, and creative communities in order to nourish and strengthen the character, quality of life, and economic prosperity of our region.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
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…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…
The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
Preserve access to quality healthcare for all texans
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council and the most unlike its peers is Alley Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 20 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 PRESERVATION AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Austin History Center Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Pease Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds UMLAUF SCULPTURE GARDEN & MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds The Trail Conservancy ↗
- Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds St Edwards University ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL ↗
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 · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Better Business Bureau · Austin Parks Foundation · Arnold Foundation · St David's Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable 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 McBee 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.
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.
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