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Rwh Foundation
Its FY2024 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $148k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $43,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE OF AUSTIN | $20,315 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $15,000 |
| THE SAFE ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY | $14,700 |
| WONDERS AND WORRIES INC | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BSA | $10,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| CREATIVE ACTION | $9,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION | $7,500 |
| FIRST TEE OF GREATER AUSTIN | $7,000 |
| THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS | $6,500 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES | $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 (FY20–24, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 6 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- TSTHE SAFE ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +43%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +16%
- MLMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +160%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERSone grant, 2023 · $10k
- ABANY BABY CANone grant, 2021 · $10k
- UUPBRINGone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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…
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Engage in building procted to provide emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent housing while offering job skills training and support to help residents move toward self-sufficiency.
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…
To ensure and preserve quality, affordable housing opportunities for low- to moderate-income families in austin as well as provide financial literacy and homeownership opportunities.
To provide research, education and advocacy related to affordable housing
Any baby can, an austin-based nonprofit, partners with parents so children reach their full potential. with programs that meet clients where they are at home, work or school any baby can provides in-home therapy, parent education, mental…
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.
CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.
ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.
Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Child Protection and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
54 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. 54 of the 83 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 Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE SETTLEMENT CLUB ↗
- Who funds Wonders & Worries Inc ↗
- Who funds LONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Health Alliance for Austin Musicians ↗
- Who funds THE SIMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #564 CAPITOL AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MANOS DE CRISTO INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds VINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds Austin Child Guidance Center ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION ↗
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 · Better Business Bureau · United Way for Greater Austin · The Moody Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Topfer Family Foundation · Arnold Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · United Way Worldwide · The Bill M and Cecile Autrey Ham Charitable 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 Rwh 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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