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Still Water Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $713k
- $50k–250k45 grants · $4.0M
- $250k+19 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $3,000,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO ZEN CENTER | $2,833,334 |
| HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| WEST TEXAS REHAB CENTER | $1,000,000 |
| BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000,000 |
| LANDMARKS - THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $1,000,000 |
| WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY | $750,000 |
| PERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION | $625,000 |
| ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| ABILENE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $500,000 |
| HENDRICK HEALTH | $500,000 |
| ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN (CICERO RESEARCH) | $300,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO ZEN CENTER | $280,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO ZEN CENTER | $278,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $780k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 18 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M 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
- HCHILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY5× · 2020–2024 · $707k · revenue +817%
- FCFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $700k · revenue +61%
- TATexas Agricultural Land Trust3× · 2022–2024 · $625k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- LTLANDMARKS - THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXASone grant, 2020 · $2.2M
- BMBLANTON MUSEUM OF ART - THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXASone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
TEXAS TRIBUNE INCone grant, 2020 · $505k · revenue +22%
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.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Public arts funding
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Texas Food & Wine Alliance is dedicated to fostering awareness and innovation in the Texas culinary community through grants, educational programing, and events.
Texas Society of Architects is the voice for Texas architecture, supporting the creation of safe, beautiful, sustainable environments.
Support and strengthen austin public libraries
The Texas Association of Museums strengthens the Texas museum community through collaborations, connections, professional development, and advocacy.
The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas, especially for programs that relate to the administration of justice; ethics in the legal profession;…
The mission of Bexar Land Trust (Green Spaces) is to sustain the natural environment and enhance urban spaces through land conservation, community engagement, and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humanities Texas and the most unlike its peers is Bamberger Ranch Preserve. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 13% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 175 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 ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Agricultural Land Trust ↗
- Who funds MINDPOP ↗
- Who funds Taking Care of Texas ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds Abilene Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds Skystone Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds THE CHINATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hill Country Alliance ↗
- Who funds WACO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLD JAIL ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONSPIRARE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE ↗
- Who funds WATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC ↗
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 · Meadows Foundation Inc · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · The Summerlee Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Better Business Bureau · The Moody Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Legett Foundation · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc
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 Still Water 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% 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.
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