How much does Shalom Austin give?

Shalom Austin reported 13 itemized grants totaling $1,393,535, out of $1,645,501 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Shalom Austin fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (31%), Philanthropy (23%), Education (19%).

Who are Shalom Austin's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Djcc Development Corporation ($1.1M), Austin Jewish Academy ($668k), Austin Film Festival Inc ($194k).

Does Shalom Austin fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Shalom Austin?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Houston Jewish Community Foundation, Dallas Jewish Community Foundation.

Shalom Austin

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· Public charity

Shalom Austin

SHALOM AUSTIN is the hub of jewish life in central texas.

$1.6M

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

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States reached

$710k

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

50% of Shalom Austin’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federations Of North America Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Shalom Austin named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.1MPhilanthropy$824kEducation$675kReligion$478kArts & Culture$194kRecreation & Sports$140kCivil Rights$94kHuman Services$45kOther$0

02FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 13 grants below total $1,393,535, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,645,501 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $251,966 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k2 grants · $15k
$10k–50k7 grants · $113k
$50k–250k2 grants · $288k
$250k+2 grants · $977k

$16,000

Median grant

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States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DJCC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION	$709,652
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA	$267,059
AUSTIN JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL	$194,474
AUSTIN JEWISH ACADEMY	$93,873
TEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION	$25,625
CHABAD OF AUSTIN (HEWBREW PREP SCHOOL)	$18,605
CAMP YOUNG JUDAEA	$16,000
GREENE FAMILY CAMP	$16,000
CHABAD UT	$14,083
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE	$12,829
TEXAS A&M HILLEL	$10,235
MOISHE HOUSE	$8,200
CONGREGATION AGUDAS ACHIM	$6,900

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.5M · 12 repeat orgs$271k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.5M

$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+93%

Still filing today

58%

20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsReligionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

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TEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +15%
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ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
8× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +78%
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Camp Young Judaea Inc
5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +342%

Funded once

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CHABAD HOUSE
one grant, 2018 · $6k
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TEMPLE BETH SHALOM
one grant, 2020 · $5k
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CHABAD OF DOWNTOWN AUSTIN INC
one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

Texas Jewish Security Initiative

Crime & Legal

University of Judaism Foundation

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Jewish Year Abroad

To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about

International

Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington

The mission of Hillel at the University of Washington (Hillel UW) is to inspire students and young adults (ages 18-35) to explore, embrace, and celebrate Jewish life and identity.

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The University of Iowa Louis Shulman Hillel Foundation

The mission of Iowa Hillel is to enhance the lives of Jewish students at the University of Iowa, so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Iowa Hillel envisions a world for our students where they find a community here at Iowa…

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Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International

American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

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Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

Hillel's mission is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

Religion

American University Hillel Inc

To enrich the lives of Jewish students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world.

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The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation

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Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc

Youth Development

Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

Tulane hillel serves as a jewish resource on the tulane university campus in new orleans. tulane hillel creates a radically inclusive community, develops students' leadership, and encourages curiosity through our jewish values.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Hillel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Austin Film Festival Inc. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 24 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

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Grantees still filing

7/13

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,227,127Human Services$1,154,652Philanthropy$825,364Arts & Culture$194,474Civil Rights$93,879Recreation & Sports$70,000Religion$21,700International$9,860

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.

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 Foundation IncTX23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Houston Jewish Community Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Shalom Austin funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shalom Austin. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home