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The Abbott 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| AUSTIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| ANY BABY CAN | $1,500 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK OF TEXAS | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MISSION VIEJO NADADORES FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SAFE ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $1,000 |
| FAMILY ELDERCARE | $1,000 |
| PROJECT MERCY | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| THE ARC OF GREATER BEAUMONT | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
31 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +145%- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +95%
- TSTHE SAFE ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- SRSIAMESE RESCUE ALLIANCE TXone grant, 2017 · $1k
- CLCAREER LIFE MINITERIESone grant, 2017 · $500
- CRCORRIDOR RESCUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +58%
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.
Austin dog rescue is a foster home based organization that saves dogs from shelters that were picked up as strays or abandoned by their family and left with no hope of a better life. we believe that life is precious and the dogs we save…
PAWS' purpose is to provide refuge to stray and unwanted animals. PAWS' mission is to prevent cruelty to all animals by promoting humane standards through education and example, to provide care and shelter for homeless animals, aid in the…
Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.
One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…
Houston Cares Rescue is a volunteer organization rescuing animals from the streets, and occasionally from shelters, in Houston, TX, and caring for them primarily with foster families until a loving home can be found. We operate a…
As an advocate for the community goal of maintaining its no kill status, the humane society provides adoption, rescue and foster opportunities for the homeless animals at the city of waco animal shelter, as well as community education…
To protect and improve the lives of dogs and cats by providing shelter, care, adoption, rescue, spay & neuter programs and community education.
Texas Ferret Lovers Rescue is a no-kill organization dedicated to providing a safe and healthy environment along with quality care until loving homes can be found. We also provide sanctuary care for ferrets that are not adoptable due to…
Pippys Pals Rescue is dedicated to saving the lives of dogs facing euthanasia in Houston. Our mission is to provide a second chance to these beloved companions by rescuing them from shelters, providing them with necessary medical care, and…
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
Saving unwanted, abandoned, abused and neglected dogs in Texas. Also to promote proper pet ownership, community educational programs and to support spaying/neutering as a means to control unwanted pets. We provide complete vetting prior to…
To provide humane shelter, care and placement for stray and unwanted animals, and to promote the human-animal bond and responsible pet ownership to enhance the quality of life for the people and animals in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Austin and the most unlike its peers is Therapy Pet Pals of Texas. 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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 40 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN SIAMESE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds JAILS TO JOBS ↗
- Who funds ABLAZE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE AQUATICS INC ↗
- Who funds THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH HOME RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ELDERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION VIEJO NADADORES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CORRIDOR RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM REDUX ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC ↗
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: Donald D Hammill Foundation · St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Ecg Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Texas Instruments Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Gannett Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 The Abbott 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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