· Private foundation
Pledge Good Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGTHER BITES | $50,000 |
| MIGHTY MILLIE FOUNDATION | $10,300 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| TANKPROOF | $5,000 |
| THE KATELLE FOUNDATION DBA THE KINDNESS CAMPAIGN | $5,000 |
| DOWNTOWN BENTONVILLE INC | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC | $1,000 |
| PARTNERS IN PARENTING | $500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY | $500 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $500 |
| THE IRONMAN FOUNDATION | $500 |
| 15-10 FOUNDATION | $500 |
| HOUSTON ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| HAYS COUNTY FOOD BANK | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 19 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
Feeding America2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +23%- BBBrighter Bites Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue +38%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +5%
Funded once
CITY YEAR INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -6%- IFIOLA Foundationone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -47%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $6k
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.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Animal equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.
Donor Alliance saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation. Donor Alliance is one of 55 Federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. Additionally, it is a member of the…
Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…
To maximize programs intended to stop killing of adoptable animals.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.
The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network and the most unlike its peers is Whole Foods Market Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
102 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. 102 of the 127 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 Feeding America ↗
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- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
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- Who funds MIGHTY MILLIE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
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- Who funds KEEP AUSTIN BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds TANKPROOF ↗
- Who funds EMANCIPET INC ↗
- Who funds Wags and Walks ↗
- Who funds KATELLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC ↗
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- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
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- Who funds PAUL MCBETH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
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- Who funds THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE ↗
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- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
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 · St David's Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · The Moody Foundation · I Live Here I Give Here · McKesson Foundation Inc · Better Business Bureau · Shell USA Company Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · James & Beatrice Salah Charitable Trust Dtd 08-09-2001 · Topfer Family Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800
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 Pledge Good Foundation Inc 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Epilepsy Florida Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
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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