· Public charity
Nolan Ryan Foundation
The foundation is organized to perform charitable and educational activities within the meaning of internal revenue code section 501(c)(3) and texas tax code section 11.1b(c)(1).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $968,699 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,137,957 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $169,258 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k13 grants · $239k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $130k
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $600,000 |
| RBI AUSTIN | $130,000 |
| NELSON FAMILY LIFE FOUNDATION | $29,399 |
| ROUND ROCK AREA SERVING CENTE | $27,500 |
| HOPE ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY | $25,000 |
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| ROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS | $18,500 |
| HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDRE | $13,300 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| CEREBRAL PALSY AWARENESS | $10,000 |
| LEARNING BRIDGE | $10,000 |
| RELATIONAL CARE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| CANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 27% 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.
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 +10% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $723k 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
- RARBI AUSTIN4× · 2022–2025 · $215k · revenue +46%
- WCWILLIAMSON COUNTY CRISIS CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $123k · revenue +161%
- TATexas A&M Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN TEXASone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +21%
- BDBREES DREAM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -18%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Areaone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -8%
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.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
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.
Children at heart ministries is a family of christian ministries that exists to honor god and build a better world by serving children and strengthening families.
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
Camp Aranzazu cultivates belonging for campers of all ages and abilities by creating accessible, empowering and intentional camp experiences.
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
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.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
To strengthen the lives of children and families.
ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Area Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Learning Bridge. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 33 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.
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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 · Topfer Family Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Central Texas Community Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Georgetown Healthcare System Inc · Charles Schwab Foundation · St David's Foundation · The Roy F & Joann Cole Mitte Foundation · Georgetown Area Community Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin
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 Nolan Ryan 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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