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Springhouse Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$270k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$354kYouth Development$310kHuman Services$217kCommunity Improvement$188kFood & Nutrition$182kArts & Culture$145kEducation$100kEnvironment$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $202k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL$55,000
ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$35,000
EXPLORE AUSTIN$30,000
DELL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$29,000
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN$27,500
TRAIL CONSERVANCY$25,000
MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES$25,000
AUSTIN DIAPER BANK$10,000
AFRICAN COMMUNITY & CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$10,000
CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK$6,500
SAFE$4,000
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%STREET SOCCER USA: $7k → 20%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $4k → 10%YMCA OF AUSTIN: $10k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $48k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $38k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $33k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 10%AUSTIN DIAPER BANK: $10k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 16 repeat orgs$274k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +99% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
20

Total granted

$1.5M
$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%
+48%

Still filing today

81%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementAnimalsHealthOther

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

  • DC
    DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $325k · revenue +156%
  • AE
    AUSTIN EXPLORE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $218k · revenue +200%
  • TB
    Texas Book Festival
    5× · 2021–2025 · $140k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SETON FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • ST
    SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -75%
  • MH
    MAGDALENE HOUSE OF AUSTINgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +117%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Leadership Austin

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

Youth Development
2
Greater Austin Christian Foundation

Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.

Religion
3
Uatx

Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…

Education
4
Austin Community Foundation Inc

We mobilize ideas and resources to strengthen central texas.

Philanthropy
5
Austin City Lutherans

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

Religion
6
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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7
Austin Public Library Friends Foundation

Support and strengthen austin public libraries

Education
8
Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber's mission is to provide leadership that facilitates the creation of a prosperous regional economy and results in effective advocacy for its members.

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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
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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11
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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12
Texas Children's

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generation Serve 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyTexas Educational Foundatio…Texas Policy Advocacy Organ…Affordable Housing Developm…Independent Schools and Ear…Healthcare Industry Associa…Youth Development & Mentori…Child-Focused Global Develo…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr17%11%10–20yr15%30%20–35yr16%30%35–55yr11%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr17%2%10–20yr15%54%20–35yr16%8%35–55yr11%30%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/29
the rest of the field
13%
1,118/8,922

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.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $325,150 · OtherDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONKIPP TEXAS FUNDRAISING AUSTIN — $75,000 · OtherKIPP TEXAS FUNDRAISING AUSTINTHE SETON FUND — $50,000 · OtherTHE SETON FUNDTHE TRAIL FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN — $75,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTINCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $31,500 · OtherSAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC — $25,000 · OtherMAGDALENE HOUSE OF AUSTIN — $25,000 · Other+14 more — $112,500 · Other+14 moreAUSTIN EXPLORE INC — $217,500 · EducationAUSTIN EXPLORE INCST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $96,500 · EducationST ANDREW'S EPISCOPA…+2 more — $10,500 · EducationTexas Book Festival — $140,000 · Recreation & SportsTexas Book Fes…FUN4SENIORS — $65,000 · Recreation & SportsFUN4SENIORSAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP — $18,000 · Recreation & SportsAUSTIN YMBL SU…HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $132,499 · Human ServicesHELPING HAN…MEALS ON WHEELS — $15,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WH…AUSTIN DIAPER BANK — $10,000 · Human ServicesAUSTIN DIAP…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN — $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S…STREET SOCCER USA INC — $6,500 · Human Services+1 more — $3,500 · Human ServicesMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $135,000 · ReligionTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC — $97,500 · Community ImprovementBetter ATX — $15,000 · Community ImprovementThe Trail Conservancy — $75,000 · EnvironmentAFRICAN COMMUNITY AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Environment
Other$744,150Education$324,500Recreation & Sports$223,000Human Services$177,499Religion$135,000Community Improvement$112,500Environment$85,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $325,150 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetAUSTIN EXPLORE INC — $217,500 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetTexas Book Festival — $140,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $135,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $132,499 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC — $97,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $96,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trail Conservancy — $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN — $75,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $31,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMAGDALENE HOUSE OF AUSTIN — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP — $18,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBetter ATX — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS — $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAUSTIN DIAPER BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTGIFT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGENERATION SERVE — $7,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSTREET SOCCER USA INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRODEO AUSTIN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE AUSTIN — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Austin Community Foun…Greater Houston Commu…The Moody FoundationBetter Business BureauTopfer Family Foundat…Buena Vista FoundationUnited Way for Greate…Ecg FoundationShield-Ayres Foundati…United Way WorldwideThe Applied Materials…St David's Foundation
Austin Community Foundation IncTX30.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Topfer Family Foundation · Buena Vista Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Ecg Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Applied Materials Foundation · St David's 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 Springhouse Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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