· Private foundation
Nelson Puett Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $122k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $393k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $283k
- $250k+1 grant · $510k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REMEMBER THE ALAMO FOUNDATION | $510,000 |
| SHIKAR SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL | $175,100 |
| TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $58,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS CENTRAL TEXAS | $50,000 |
| TIVY HIGH SCHOOL | $49,000 |
| INGRAM INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $48,294 |
| SEEDLING FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| LULING HIGH SCHOOL | $38,500 |
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $26,000 |
| AUSTIN SPEECH LABS | $25,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CTX | $25,000 |
| AUGUSTHEART | $23,500 |
| HONDURAS GOOD WORKS | $20,000 |
| THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $629k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 3% of those 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.
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.
93 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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
- HHHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $557k · revenue +62%
- TTTHE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $518k · revenue +66%
- SCShikar-Safari Club International5× · 2020–2024 · $452k · revenue +293% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
- TSTHE SETON FUND - DSMC FUURE OF CAREone grant, 2022 · $300k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2018 · $200k
- SUSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $125k · revenue +16%
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.
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,…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
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…
The texas academy of family physicians is dedicated to the promotion of a health care environment that values the vital role of family physicians in providing quality, comprehensive care to all texans.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation At Shield Ranch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
96 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. 96 of the 200 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 Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Shikar-Safari Club International ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS' HALL OF DRIPPING SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN SPEECH LABS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AUSTIN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SEEDLING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN EXPLORE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Con Mi MADRE ↗
- Who funds PLAYHOUSE 2000 INC ↗
- Who funds SOUND OFF ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTHEART ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Moody Foundation · St David's Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · Mays Family Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Better Business Bureau
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 Nelson Puett 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.