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Reese Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $15,000 |
| SHOAL CREEK CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| COLORADO RIVER ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| AUSTIN TRAIL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ECORISE YOUTH INNOVATIONS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| TRINITY EDWARDS SPRINGS PROTECTION ASSOCIATION | $7,500 |
| TODOS JUNTOS LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of your 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 +117% since the first grant, against +106% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- TETrinity Edwards Springs Protection Assoc2× · 2017–2018 · $28k · revenue +117%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE COLORADO RIVER FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +51%
- ATAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +307%
Funded once
- WVWimberley Valley Watershed Associationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +584%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
GIRLSTARTone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +1%
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.
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.
Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.
Austin youth river watch transforms and inspires youth through environmental education, community engagement, and adventure.
Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…
Evolve Austin advocates for and champions the Imagine Austin comprehensive plan, crafted by the people of Austin to create a more affordable, mobile, and sustainable city.
Ecology Action's mission is to protect, reclaim, and connect communities to neglected or damaged remnants of the urban wilderness. We work to accelerate ecosystem recovery through biodiversity enhancement, water quality improvements,…
Improving public and park land communities using educational and vocational training for underserved youth.
Advancement of education and skill in the art of Landscape Architecture and the promotion of the profession of Landscape Architecture as an instrument of service in the public welfare.
Our mission is to educate and advocate on behalf of the Edwards Aquifer and the natural heritage of the Hill Country region and its watersheds with special emphasis on Barton Springs.
Farm&City is an independent 501c3 think & do tank dedicated to high quality urban & rural human habitat in Texas in perpetuity. We improve public policies to improve millions of Texans lives in ways that preserve and enhance Texas land,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Colorado River Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Todos Juntos Learning Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 18 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 University High School Inc ↗
- Who funds Trinity Edwards Springs Protection Assoc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COLORADO RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wimberley Valley Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Shoal Creek Conservancy ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP ↗
- Who funds EcoRise Youth Innovations ↗
- Who funds Texas Land Conservancy ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS ↗
- Who funds Todos Juntos Learning Center ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST ↗
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 · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Powell Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Buena Vista Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · Reissa Foundation · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation
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 Reese 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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