· Private foundation
Ruth and Paul Connor Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY CENTER | $80,000 |
| SIDE BY SIDE KIDS | $50,000 |
| HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN | $47,500 |
| REDEEM INTERNATIONAL | $40,000 |
| CASA ESPERANZA INC DBA HOPE HOUSE | $22,500 |
| SETTLEMENT HOME FOR CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| VINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION DBA SAINT LOUISE HOUSE | $15,000 |
| WONDERS & WORRIES | $15,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $10,000 |
| ESSILOR LUXOTTICA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TRIPLE 1 BLESSINGS INC | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
| AUSTIN BRIDGE BUILDERS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| FAMILY ELDERCARE INC | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $395k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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 +59% since the first grant, against -38% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- SBSIDE BY SIDE KIDS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $310k · revenue +43%
- RIRedeem International5× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +738%
- TSTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB6× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- LRLaity Renewal Foundationone grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue -38%
- AIABOLITION INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.
Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.
Elijah family homes fosters hope, dignity, and self-sufficiency through stable housing and support services for families seeking recovery.
Enable christian organizations worldwide to initiate and strenghten ministries that lead people to become followers of jesus and transform communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Witnessing to god's love for all people, we stand with and advocate for migrants and refugees, transforming communities through ministries of service and justice.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Advocacy for abused children
The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Laity Renewal Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 21 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 SIDE BY SIDE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Redeem International ↗
- Who funds THE SETTLEMENT CLUB ↗
- Who funds VINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wonders & Worries Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ESSILOR VISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ELDERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Laity Renewal Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN BRIDGE BUILDERS 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 · The Moody Foundation · Donald D Hammill Foundation · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · United Way Worldwide · United Way for Greater Austin · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Ruth and Paul Connor 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.