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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.

$263k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$321kFood & Nutrition$246kHealth$134kHousing & Shelter$94kYouth Development$93kRecreation & Sports$83kCrime & Legal$69kEducation$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $115k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $148k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MEALS ON WHEELS$10,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN$10,000
WONDERS AND WORRIES INC$10,000
CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BSA$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
AUSTIN CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $5k → 10%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $5k → 10%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $5k → 10%FOSTERING HOPE: $5k → 6%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $4k → 10%FOSTERING HOPE: $2k → 6%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $5k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $5k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $5k → 10%HEART OF TEXAS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 10%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $15k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $7k → 10%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $11k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $7k → 10%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $8k → 10%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $7k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 10%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $1k → 10%WONDERS AND WORRIES INC: $10k → 10%WONDERS AND WORRIES INC: $5k → 10%WONDERS AND WORRIES INC: $3k → 10%WONDERS & WORRIES INC: $3k → 10%WONDERS & WORRIES INC: $3k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 10%PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 10%PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 54 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
23

Total granted

$1.2M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsReligionRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TS
    THE SAFE ALLIANCE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +43%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +16%
  • ML
    MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +160%

Funded once

  • AB
    ANY BABY CAN
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • RA
    RODEO AUSTINgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +669%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
2
Austin Street Center

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…

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3
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
4
HomeAid Austin Inc

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.

Employment
5
Center for Austin Independent Journalism

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Austin Affordable Housing Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
7
HousingWorks Austin

To provide research, education and advocacy related to affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
8
Any Baby Can of Austin Inc

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…

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9
Good Work Austin

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.

Public Benefit
10
Casa of Williamson County Texas

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.

Crime & Legal
11
Atx Helps

ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.

Human Services
12
Austin City Lutherans

Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Child Protection; 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.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 83 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
42/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SAFE ALLIANCE: $70,375 · OtherTHE SAFE ALLIANCEFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $60,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $42,625 · OtherCARITAS OF AUSTINIndividual grant recipient: $31,000 · OtherHOPE HOUSE OF AUSTIN: $30,315 · OtherCAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BSA: $30,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $26,500 · OtherCAPITOL SCHOOL OF AUSTIN: $25,000 · Other+49 more: $360,030 · Other+49 moreMEALS ON WHEELS: $50,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELSTHERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $41,000 · Human ServicesTHERAPY PET PALS O…Wonders & Worries Inc: $23,000 · Human ServicesWonders & Worries …HOSPICE AUSTIN: $18,500 · Human ServicesHOSPICE AUSTINFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION: $16,125 · Human ServicesFOSTER ANGELS OF C…HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $15,750 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND HOME …PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIPS FOR C…AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $15,000 · Human ServicesAUSTIN GROUPS FOR …FOSTERING HOPE AUSTIN: $7,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $146,250 · Food & NutritionCentral Texas…THE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $25,000 · HealthTHE SIMS FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · HealthPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $18,000 · HealthOPERATION GET OUT: $8,500 · HealthAustin Clubhouse Inc: $8,500 · HealthTHE COMFORT CREW FOR MILITARY KIDS: $3,000 · Health+1 more: $2,500 · HealthMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $45,000 · ReligionAUSTIN RESTORATION MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Religion+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionHILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY: $29,200 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $17,750 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $32,000 · Crime & LegalCENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$675,845Human Services$206,375Food & Nutrition$146,250Health$86,500Religion$51,000Environment$47,450Crime & Legal$42,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $146,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $70,375 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $50,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $42,625 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $41,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $32,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY: $29,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $26,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWonders & Worries Inc: $23,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $22,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHealth Alliance for Austin Musicians: $21,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SIMS FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #564 CAPITOL AREA COUNCIL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMANOS DE CRISTO INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPICE AUSTIN: $18,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $18,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $17,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION: $16,125 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $15,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAustin Child Guidance Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWAYSIDE SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Action: $9,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION GET OUT: $8,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetAustin Clubhouse Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFOSTERING HOPE AUSTIN: $7,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetOPERATION BLUE SANTA: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRODEO AUSTIN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICON PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN RESTORATION MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMISSION POSSIBLE AUSTIN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPease Park Conservancy: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMFORT CREW FOR MILITARY KIDS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTreeFolks Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITOL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Wildlife Rescue: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
  • Who funds VINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Austin Child Guidance Center ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION ↗
  • Who funds WAYSIDE SCHOOLS ↗

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.

Austin Community Foun…St David's FoundationBetter Business BureauUnited Way for Greate…The Moody FoundationShield-Ayres Foundati…Alice Kleberg Reynold…Topfer Family Foundat…Arnold FoundationHarry E and Eda L Mon…United Way WorldwideThe Bill M and Cecile…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX53.4× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rwh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rwh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Rwh Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rwh Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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