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Texas Stars Foundation
The TEXAS STARS FOUNDATION is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to enhancing the community through various forms of support including financial contributions, gifts in kind and volunteerism.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $103,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $242,983 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $139,083 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEROES RESOURCE CENTER (FORMERLY HEROES NIGHT OUT) | $20,000 |
| BEAUTIFULLY LOVED | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| ROUND ROCK ISD PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARD | $10,000 |
| TEXAS INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS DBA SAM'S ADVENTURE CAMP | $10,000 |
| AUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE DBA THE DOG ALLIANCE | $8,900 |
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 (FY23–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- HNHEROES NIGHT OUT INC2× · 2023–2025 · $28k · revenue +99%
- ADAUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE3× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +85%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- CPCEDAR PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +13%
- OGOPERATION GET OUTone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $13k
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 provide a safe, caring, and temporary home away from home for the families of children receiving essential medical services in san antonio, texas.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
To advocate for and protect the human and legal rights of the citizens of texas with disabilities.
To advance children's health and well-being by advocating for policies and funding that promote children's access to high-quality, comprehensive health care.
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.
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.
Keeping children near the care they need so families can get better together.
The child and family guidance center of texoma exists to strengthen, improve, and empower the lives of hurting texoma children and families through compassionate and restorative mental healthcare.
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…
Camp's mission and current focus is to strengthen and inspire individuals with disabilities - and those who care for them - through recreation, respite and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & South Texas and the most unlike its peers is Cedar Park Public Library Foundation. 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
27 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. 27 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 HEROES NIGHT OUT INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds EQUINE REHABILITATION CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION GET OUT ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM MOSING CENTER ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds LEANDER EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SA YES ↗
- Who funds DRIVE A SENIOR CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds TUESDAY'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dept of TX VFW Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOVING LIBBIE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN METRO HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Better Business Bureau · Ecg Foundation · Donald D Hammill Foundation · Ascension Seton · Central Texas Community Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Miramar Charitable 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 Texas Stars 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.
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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