· Private foundation
Spencer Charitable Foundation 711 N Carancahua St
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| BRAILLE INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $4,500 |
| CEDAR PARK FOOD PANTRY | $4,000 |
| HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN | $4,000 |
| FAMILY ELDERCARE | $3,800 |
| CARNITAS OF AUSTIN | $3,800 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $3,500 |
| KINGSLAND SHARE THE HARVEST | $3,000 |
| THE SAFE PLACE | $2,500 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS SPCA | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 88% 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
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2021 · $112k · revenue +57%- HHHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +62%
- COCARITAS OF AUSTIN8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- CTCENTRAL TEXAS FIRSTone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- BBookSpringgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +142%
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.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.
See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…
Etfb's mission is to fight hunger and feed hope in east texas.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
To provide shelter to abused families.
To alleviate hunger in the immediate service area through the distribution of food products donated by the usda, feeding america, area grocery stores, etc. which are distributed to the needy by way of area food banks and other qualified…
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Feeding America Texas operates exclusively for charitable purposes by supporting food assistance, hunger relief, and community aid initiatives for individuals and families experiencing food insecurity throughout Texas. The organization…
Established in 1934, vna helps older adults live with dignity and independence at home by providing in-home care, food and friendship for the ill, hungry, and homebound.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Texas Food Bank Inc 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.
14 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. 14 of the 31 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 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM CENTER TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ELDERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds THE TSTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS LIONS CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas SPCA ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BookSpring ↗
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: United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Spencer Charitable Foundation 711 N Carancahua St 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.