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The 3 Roots Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$64k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$30,524
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,524
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The 3 Roots Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23
EmploymentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$64k0%
FY20233$67k0%
FY20223$51k0%
FY20214$58k25%
FY20203$115k33%
FY20185$57k0%
FY20175$53kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$237kHuman Services$168kHealth$27kCrime & Legal$22kEmployment$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hopeaustin$196,352721%
Upbring$164,3525n/a
Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc$40,31640%
Center for Child Protection$22,00020%
Austin Area Art From the Streets$10,27241%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($31k), not named here.

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About The 3 Roots Foundation

How much does The 3 Roots Foundation give?
The 3 Roots Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $63,616 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The 3 Roots Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (51%), Human Services (36%), Health (6%).
Who are The 3 Roots Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hopeaustin ($196k), Upbring ($164k), Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc ($40k).
Does The 3 Roots Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The 3 Roots Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The 3 Roots Foundation based?
The 3 Roots Foundation is based in TX.

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 7 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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