· Private foundation
Ruth and Paul Connor Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| AUSTIN BRIDGE BUILDERS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| FAMILY ELDERCARE INC | $5,000 |
| TRIPLE 1 BLESSINGS INC | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $395k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against -38% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SBSIDE BY SIDE KIDS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $310k · revenue +17%
- RIRedeem International5× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +738%
- CECasa Esperanza Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $135k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- LRLaity Renewal Foundationone grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue -38%
- AIABOLITION INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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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.
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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.
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Advocacy for abused children
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How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Casa Esperanza Inc ↗
- 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ELDERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds Laity Renewal Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN BRIDGE BUILDERS ALLIANCE ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ruth and Paul Connor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth and Paul Connor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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