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Tejemos 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.

$7.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.5MEducation$1.5MRecreation & Sports$1.0MHealth$645kEnvironment$410kCommunity Improvement$400kHuman Services$385kCivil Rights$303kOther$0
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k36 grants · $3.2M
  • $250k+10 grants · $3.9M
$75,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Waterloo Greenway Conservancy$1,000,000
Austin Theatre Alliance (Paramount Theatre)$500,000
University of Texas Foundation$500,000
Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council (Austin PBSKLRU)$400,000
Communities In Schools of Central Texas$250,000
Communities In Schools of Central Texas$250,000
International African American Museum$250,000
Driscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation Inc$250,000
LifeWorks aka Youth and Family Alliance$250,000
St Edward's University$250,000
Terrewode Women's Fund$200,000
St John's Austin United Methodist Church$200,000
Miracle Foundation$200,000
Center for Reproductive Rights$150,000
Thinkery (Austin Children's Museum)$150,000
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 (FY24–24, $65k) 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.

area typical 11%Healing Hands of Joy: $30k → 10%Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes: $10k → 10%Helping Hand Home for Children: $25k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 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.

1
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

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.

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2
Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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3
Leadership Austin

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

Youth Development
4
Trees for Houston

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

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5
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
6
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
7
Austin Public Library Friends Foundation

Support and strengthen austin public libraries

Education
8
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
9
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
10
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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11
Glasstire

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

Arts & Culture
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Families in Nature. 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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%5%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr10%20%35–55yr13%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%3%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr10%33%35–55yr13%18%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,760

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

44 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. 44 of the 54 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
12/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS — $18,120,105 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS+27 more — $3,461,000 · Other+27 moreWATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY — $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $500,000 · EducationSt Edwards University — $250,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH — $50,000 · EducationThe Ann Richards School Foundation — $50,000 · Education+1 more — $15,000 · EducationTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health — $100,000 · HealthPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $100,000 · HealthWE CARE SOLAR — $100,000 · HealthTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB — $50,000 · Health+1 more — $20,000 · HealthINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $250,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTONALITY — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureSpaceflight Mission — $50,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Cancer Association — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $15,000 · Arts & CultureDriscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation — $250,000 · PhilanthropyRESCUE ONE MORE INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyRISE EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $150,000 · Civil RightsACLU Foundation of Texas Inc — $100,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $2,500 · Civil Rights
Other$21,581,105Community Improvement$1,000,000Education$865,000Health$670,000Arts & Culture$665,000Philanthropy$375,000Civil Rights$252,500

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 budgetWATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY — $1,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $500,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetSt Edwards University — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $250,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDriscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation — $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTERREWODE WOMENS FUND — $200,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $150,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTexas Book Festival — $135,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMERLIN TUTTLES BAT CONSERVATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTONALITY — $100,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTreeFolks Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIVING GOODS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACLU Foundation of Texas Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWE CARE SOLAR — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEVERGREEN AUSTIN — $75,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetPease Park Conservancy — $75,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSpaceflight Mission — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRESCUE ONE MORE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetOneWorld Health — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILIES IN NATURE — $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetRISE EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Ann Richards School Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHealing Hands of Joy — $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Cancer Association — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLIBRARIES OF LOVE — $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSwan Songs Musical Last Wishes — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSave Our Springs Alliance Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACEJAM FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Better Business BureauTres Grace Family Fou…The Webber Family Fou…St David's FoundationShield-Ayres Foundati…The Powell FoundationThe Cynthia & George …The Moody FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Alice Kleberg Reynold…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX39.6× affinity18 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 · Better Business Bureau · Tres Grace Family Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · St David's Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Powell Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800

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 Tejemos 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
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no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tejemos Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tejemos Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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