· Public charity
Ascension Seton
Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of ASCENSION SETON’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $7,326,463 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,053,118 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $726,655 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $893k
- $250k+6 grants · $6.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $2,962,768 |
| ASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION | $1,597,472 |
| ASCENSION SETON WILLIAMSON FOUNDATION | $696,220 |
| ASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATION | $316,184 |
| INTEGRATED CARE COLLABORATION | $250,000 |
| HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR AUSTIN MUSICIANS | $250,000 |
| ST JOHN PAUL II LIFE CENTER | $150,000 |
| SAN JUAN DIEGO CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTR | $123,500 |
| TRAIL OF LIGHTS FOUNDATION | $121,500 |
| CAPITAL IDEA | $80,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $78,500 |
| AMERICAN GATEWAYS | $75,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF AUSTIN | $74,350 |
| CHAMPIONS OFF THE FIELD | $65,289 |
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 (FY17–24, $184k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
- CTCENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS3× · 2020–2022 · $4.5M · revenue +68%
- ICIntegrated Care Collaboration5× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +28% · 73% of their budget
Health Alliance for Austin Musicians8× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +170%
Funded once
- CCCAPITAL CITY INNOVATION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2019 · $450k
- CCCatholic Charities Bloomington Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +29% · 35% of their budget
- CCCatholic Charities of Central Texasgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +49%
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 ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
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…
The purpose of the texas chapter of the american college of cardiology is to contribute to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, to ensure optimal quality of care for individuals with such diseases, and to foster the highest…
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
Travis county medical society (tcms) represents the medical profession in matters of importance to the membership and the community it serves.
Preserve access to quality healthcare for all texans
The association's purpose is to promote the role of the pharmacist and the practice of pharmacy in the state of texas.
The texas academy of family physicians is dedicated to the promotion of a health care environment that values the vital role of family physicians in providing quality, comprehensive care to all texans.
To advance children's health and well-being by advocating for policies and funding that promote children's access to high-quality, comprehensive health care.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascension Seton Hays Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Pound House. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
109 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. 109 of the 128 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 DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION SETON WILLIAMSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Integrated Care Collaboration ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Health Alliance for Austin Musicians ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR CIRCLE OF CARE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN PAUL II LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Gateways ↗
- Who funds TRAIL OF LIGHTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Bloomington Inc ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Central Texas ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds ROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds Quality of Life Foundation of Austin Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds Champions Off the Field ↗
- Who funds Capital Investing in Development and Employment of Adults Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Optimal Health ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds DIVINC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PEDIATRIC SOCIETY CHAPTER OF AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ↗
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 · United Way for Greater Austin · The Moody Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Better Business Bureau · The Applied Materials Foundation · Georgetown Healthcare System Inc · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Mfi 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 Ascension Seton 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.