· Private foundation
Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation
Its FY2025 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS RIVER SCHOOL | $3,061 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $100 |
| WRITERS LEAGUE | $61 |
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 (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61 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
- SOSOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS INC2× · 2019–2020 · $27k · revenue +10%
- TTThe Trail Conservancy2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +99%
- RRRIVER RELIEF INC D/B/A MISSOURI RIVER RELIEF2× · 2021–2022 · $305 · revenue +52%
Funded once
CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +2%- ODOPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $547 · revenue 0%
- HHONKTXone grant, 2024 · $547 · revenue +6%
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.
To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
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…
Support and strengthen austin public libraries
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
The mission of the Hill Country Alliance is to bring together a diverse coalition of partners to preserve the open spaces, starry night skies, clean and abundant waters, and unique character of the Texas Hill Country.
To connect Central Texans to resources by reducing barriers expanding access and filling gaps in service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Persephone Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 24 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 SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Honolulu Civil Beat Inc ↗
- Who funds The Trail Conservancy ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HONKTX ↗
- Who funds THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMMYS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER RELIEF INC D/B/A MISSOURI RIVER RELIEF ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN YOUTH RIVER WATCH ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Land Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Shoal Creek Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Film Society of Austin Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Austin Wildlife Rescue ↗
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 · Better Business Bureau · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Mfi Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Ray Reece Environmental Journalism 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.