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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.

$243k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$103kHealth$78kEducation$55kAnimals$41kHousing & Shelter$25kPhilanthropy$22kCommunity Improvement$20kRecreation & Sports$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $103,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $242,983 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $139,083 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$476k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEAUTIFULLY LOVED$20,000
HEROES RESOURCE CENTER (FORMERLY HEROES NIGHT OUT)$20,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$15,000
ROUND ROCK ISD PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARD$10,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS$10,000
TEXAS INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS DBA SAM'S ADVENTURE CAMP$10,000
AUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE DBA THE DOG ALLIANCE$8,900
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS: $10k → 10%HEROES RESOURCE CENTER (FORMERLY HEROES NIGHT OUT): $20k → 6%HEROES NIGHT OUT: $8k → 6%TEXAS INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS DBA SAM'S ADVENTURE CAMP: $10k → 10%GREATER AUSTIN YMCA: $10k → 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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$119k · 6 repeat orgs$270k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
18

Total granted

$119k
$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
-7%

Still filing today

83%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • HN
    HEROES NIGHT OUT INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $28k · revenue +99%
  • AD
    AUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE
    3× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +85%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • CP
    CEDAR PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +13%
  • OG
    OPERATION GET OUT
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
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
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of San Antonio Inc

To provide a safe, caring, and temporary home away from home for the families of children receiving essential medical services in san antonio, texas.

Health
2
Disabled American Veterans of Texas Service Foundation
Human Services
3
Leadership Austin

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

Youth Development
4
Children's Health System of Texas

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.…

Health
5
Disability Rights Texas

To advocate for and protect the human and legal rights of the citizens of texas with disabilities.

Civil Rights
6
Children's Hospital Association of Texas

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.

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7
Central Texas Children's Home

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.

Human Services
8
Visiting Nurse Association of Texas

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.

Health
9
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities South Texas

Keeping children near the care they need so families can get better together.

Health
10
Child and Family Guidance Center of Texoma

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.

Health
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…

—
12
Children's Assoc for Maximum Potential (

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & South Texas; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 31 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
10/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $20,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CE…AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,000 · OtherAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCIndividual grant recipient: $13,110 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLEEF STARWARS JERSEY PROCEEDS: $12,500 · OtherLEEF STARWARS JERSEY PROCEEDSDRIVE A SENIOR CENTRAL TEXAS: $10,000 · OtherDRIVE A SENIOR CENTRAL TEXASROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOUTH TEXAS: $10,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOU…Individual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherTUESDAY'S CHILDREN: $10,000 · OtherTUESDAY'S CHILDRENFRIENDS OF THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARD INC: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILD …LOVING LIBBIE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherLOVING LIBBIE MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONAUSTIN METRO HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $6,666 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER S…OPERATION GET OUT: $15,000 · HealthOPERATION GET OUTRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $10,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD H…BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · HealthBREAST CANCER RES…MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPH…HEROES NIGHT OUT INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesHEROES NIGHT OUT…FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE O…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRI…TEXAS INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS: $10,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS INSTITUTE …CEDAR PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationCEDAR PARK PUB…THE WILLIAM MOSING CENTER: $15,000 · EducationTHE WILLIAM MO…LEANDER EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION: $12,500 · EducationLEANDER EDUCAT…AUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE: $23,900 · AnimalsAUSTIN DOG …EQUINE REHABILITATION CENTRAL TEXAS: $17,500 · AnimalsEQUINE REHA…SA YES: $12,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyDept of TX VFW Foundation: $7,500 · PhilanthropyFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$138,276Health$60,000Human Services$57,500Education$52,500Animals$41,400Philanthropy$29,500Community Improvement$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEROES NIGHT OUT INC: $27,500 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCEDAR PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetAUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE: $23,900 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUINE REHABILITATION CENTRAL TEXAS: $17,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION GET OUT: $15,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTHE WILLIAM MOSING CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEANDER EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSA YES: $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDRIVE A SENIOR CENTRAL TEXAS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTUESDAY'S CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOUTH TEXAS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDept of TX VFW Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLOVING LIBBIE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetAUSTIN METRO HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $6,666 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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…St David's FoundationThe Moody FoundationUnited Way WorldwideBetter Business BureauEcg FoundationDonald D Hammill Foun…Ascension SetonCentral Texas Communi…Shield-Ayres Foundati…United Way for Greate…Miramar Charitable Fo…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX28.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Texas Stars Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Texas Stars Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    How do I get to Texas Stars Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Texas Stars 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 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 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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