· Private foundation
Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| iACT | $10,000 |
| Karuna Center f Peacebuilding | $7,500 |
| YES | $7,500 |
| Central Asia Institute | $7,500 |
| Lifeworks | $6,000 |
| Shanti Bhavan Childrens Project | $6,000 |
| Multicultural Refugee Coalition | $6,000 |
| Caritas of Austin | $6,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $5,000 |
| Women f Women International | $5,000 |
| Doctors without Borders | $5,000 |
| IRC | $5,000 |
| Austin Classical Guitar Society | $5,000 |
| Mobile Loaves and Fishes | $4,000 |
| Texas Tribune | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $28k) 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 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CACENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +40%
- CACreative Action4× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +36%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CACentral Asia Instituteone grant, 2023 · $8k
- HIHealth in Harmonygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +36%
- MMen4Choiceone grant, 2024 · $4k
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
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.…
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.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To create positive social change for millions of under-served people across the developing world by providing critically needed information and education through innovative media, appropriate technology and direct community engagement.
The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…
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To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Fair Housing Alliance and the most unlike its peers is James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts. 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 45 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 ASIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Creative Action ↗
- Who funds THE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds KARUNA CENTER FOR PEACEBUILDING INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Anthropos Arts ↗
- Who funds Health in Harmony ↗
- Who funds EQUITY KIDS ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN REGION JFON ↗
- Who funds Justice For All Immigrants ↗
- Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIRLFORWARD ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK TRIBE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Shield-Ayres Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc · St David's Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Seawell Elam Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · The Moody 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 Shanti Foundation for Intercultural Understanding 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.
- Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Inc — 1% of income from government
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.