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Tapestry Foundation of Mary Carmel and Thomas P Borders at a glance

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Tapestry Foundation of Mary Carmel and Thomas P Borders

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$538k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$274k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.5MPhilanthropy$599kRecreation & Sports$594kArts & Culture$547kHealth$303kSocial Science$65kPublic Benefit$60kCrime & Legal$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $197k
  • $250k+1 grant · $274k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUSTIN ED FUND$273,638
UNITED WAY CAPITAL AREA$81,662
RAWSON SAUNDERS INSTITUTE$65,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN - DELL MEDICAL SCHOOL$50,000
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL$27,500
WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY$10,000
ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$10,000
TEXANS CARE FOR CHILDREN$5,000
LBJ FOUNDATION$5,000
TODOS JUNTOS LEARNING CENTER$5,000
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WORLD MONUMENT FUND: $15k → 17%TEXAS FOLKLIFE: $15k → 10%TEXAS FOLKLIFE: $15k → 10%TEXAS FOLKLIFE: $15k → 10%ST LOUISE HOUSE: $125k → 10%ST LOUISE HOUSE: $125k → 10%SETON FUND OF THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $78k → 10%LBJ FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ST LOUISE HOUSE: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $40k → 10%THE BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN - BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 10%TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL: $28k → 10%WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY: $62k → 10%TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN - DELL MEDICAL SCHOOL: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN - DELL MEDICAL SCHOOL: $50k → 10%WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY: $50k → 10%WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY: $36k → 10%WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY: $35k → 10%TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL: $25k → 10%TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL: $25k → 10%TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL: $25k → 10%AUSTIN ED FUND: $274k → 10%AUSTIN ED FUND: $193k → 10%TODOS JUNTOS LEARNING CENTER: $175k → 10%TODOS JUNTOS LEARNING CENTER: $131k → 10%TODOS JUNTOS LEARNING CENTER: $60k → 10%TODOS JUNTOS LEARNING CENTER: $55k → 10%AUSTIN ED FUND: $39k → 10%AUSTIN ED FUND: $33k → 10%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $25k → 10%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $25k → 10%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $25k → 10%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%ALL ATX: $25k → 10%FRIENDS OF HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%RAWSON SAUNDERS INSTITUTE: $65k → 10%O'HENRY MIDDLE SCHOOL: $16k → 10%AUSTIN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $162k → 10%UNITED WAY CAPITAL AREA: $107k → 10%UNITED WAY CAPITAL AREA: $105k → 10%UNITED WAY CAPITAL AREA: $82k → 10%UNITED WAY CAPITAL AREA: $100k → 10%UNITED WAY CAPITAL AREA: $67k → 10%UNITED WAY CAPITAL AREA: $50k → 10%UNITED WAY CAPITAL AREA: $38k → 10%SSP LEARNING CENTER: $30k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 16 repeat orgs$567k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
20

Total granted

$3.1M
$567k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+38%

Still filing today

31%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • TJ
    Todos Juntos Learning Center
    6× · 2020–2025 · $431k · revenue +299%
  • TB
    Texas Book Festival
    6× · 2020–2025 · $163k · revenue +80%
  • TC
    Texans Care For Children Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • AI
    AUSTIN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $162k
  • RR
    RETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue 0%
  • AS
    ASCENSION SETON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $78k · revenue +66%
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.

1
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
2
Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights
3
Leadership Austin

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

Youth Development
4
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
5
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
6
Forty First Foundation

The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…

Education
7
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
8
Austin Public Library Friends Foundation

Support and strengthen austin public libraries

Education
9
Center for Austin Independent Journalism

To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…

Arts & Culture
10
The University of Texas Foundation No 1

To support the university of texas system

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11
Eqtx Equality Texas dba Equality Texas

EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.

—
12
Texas Government Accountability Foundation Inc

To foster transparency and uphold ethical standards across all levels of government in texas and empower citizens to hold their government accountable.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Todos Juntos Learning Center. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $576,658 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINAUSTIN ED FUND: $553,372 · OtherAUSTIN ED FUNDUNITED WAY CAPITAL AREA: $548,382 · OtherUNITED WAY CAPITAL AREAST LOUISE HOUSE: $260,000 · OtherST LOUISE HOUSEAUSTIN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (AISD): $162,225 · OtherAUSTIN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (AISD)UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $100,000 · Other+20 more: $519,559 · Other+20 moreTodos Juntos Learning Center: $431,150 · EducationTodos Juntos …TEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $29,625 · EducationTEXAS TRIBUNE…+1 more: $1,850 · EducationWATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY: $192,500 · Community ImprovementTexas Book Festival: $162,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsRETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $125,000 · HealthALL ATX: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL: $3,750 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $20,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,720,196Education$462,625Community Improvement$192,500Recreation & Sports$165,500Health$125,000Arts & Culture$44,750Philanthropy$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTodos Juntos Learning Center: $431,150 over 6y, 23% of budgetWATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY: $192,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTexas Book Festival: $162,500 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetRETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION: $78,386 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $29,625 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALL ATX: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexans Care For Children Inc: $15,833 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetE3 ALLIANCE: $1,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Todos Juntos Learning Center ↗
  • Who funds WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Texas Book Festival ↗
  • Who funds RETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL ATX ↗
  • Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Texans Care For Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds LONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds E3 ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗

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 Foun…Mfi FoundationSt David's FoundationGreater Houston Commu…The Applied Materials…The Moody FoundationRaymond James Charita…Buena Vista FoundationStill Water FoundationThe Rachael and Ben V…Ascension SetonThe Webber Family Fou…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Mfi Foundation · St David's Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Buena Vista Foundation · Still Water Foundation · The Rachael and Ben Vaughan Foundation · Ascension Seton · The Webber Family 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 Tapestry Foundation of Mary Carmel and Thomas P Borders funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tapestry Foundation of Mary Carmel and Thomas P Borders. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Tapestry Foundation of Mary Carmel and Thomas P Borders through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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