Skip to content

Texas · Public charity

Preservation Austin

PRESERVATION AUSTIN exists to empower austinites to shape a more inclusive, resilient, and meaningful community culture through preservation.

$29k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
Read the full brief
Itemized, FY2024
$12k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$6,525
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,525
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Preservation Austin funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’22
Arts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$12k100%
FY20222$16k100%
FY20201$6k100%
FY20191$8k100%
FY20181$10kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$28kFood & Nutrition$10kPhilanthropy$8kEducation$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boggy Creek Farm$10,0001n/a
Texas Historical Commission$7,5001n/a
Center for Women and Their Work Inc$6,52511%
The Foundation for the Preservation of the Historic Millet Opera House$6,19912%
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc$5,5001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Compare Preservation Austin with peer funders

About Preservation Austin

How much does Preservation Austin give?
Preservation Austin reported 2 itemized grants totaling $12,025, out of $28,608 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does Preservation Austin fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Philanthropy (13%).
Who are Preservation Austin's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Boggy Creek Farm ($10k), Texas Historical Commission ($8k), Center for Women and Their Work Inc ($7k).
Does Preservation Austin fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Preservation Austin based?
Preservation Austin is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Preservation Austin’s filings →

More from the funding graph