How much does The Albany Foundation give?

The Albany Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $589,047 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Albany Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (41%), Health (31%), Human Services (11%).

Who are The Albany Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Texas Christian University ($1.3M), Abilene Boys Ranch Inc ($195k), Old Jail Art Center ($176k).

Does The Albany Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 90% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Albany Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Albany Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation.

Where is The Albany Foundation based?

The Albany Foundation is based in TX.

The Albany Foundation

The Albany Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Albany 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.

$589k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$185k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.9MHealth$1.4MHuman Services$490kArts & Culture$288kHousing & Shelter$95kReligion$60kCivil Rights$50kCrime & Legal$21kOther$0

02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $83k
$10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$50k–250k3 grants · $481k

$5,457

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BEN RICHEY BOYS RANCH	$185,000
OLD JAIL ART CENTER	$165,563
Individual grant recipient	$130,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER	$15,000
CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION	$10,914
NORTH TEXAS HUMANE SOCIETY	$5,457
MAKE A WISH	$5,457
WE RISE ABOVE THE STREETS	$5,457
ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER	$5,457
Individual grant recipient	$5,457
THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PTR	$5,457
MARCH OF DIMES	$5,457
CHILD STUDY CENTER	$5,457
AUSTIN 20	$5,457
Individual grant recipient	$5,457

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $347k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 21 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+21%

Still filing today

48%

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

AB
Abilene Boys Ranch Inc
3× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +3%
OJ
OLD JAIL ART CENTER
3× · 2017–2024 · $176k · revenue +204%
BRITE DIVINITY SCHOOL
3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +31%

Funded once

TC
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $1.3M · revenue +40%
TT
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2022 · $166k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-CENTER FOR YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH
one grant, 2023 · $100k

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.

Childsafe Colorado Inc

Mission: our mission is to break the cycle and heal the childhood trauma resulting from abuse and neglect with specialized treatment, education and community outreach. we believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem…

Crime & Legal

The District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center

Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…

Crime & Legal

The Wichita Children's Home

To assure the safety and well-being of children and to create heathly families by providing: assessment and intervention services; a temporary home for children at risk of abuse, neglect, or homelessness; education, prevention and advocacy…

Human Services

Children's Advocacy Center of Greater West Texas

The children's advocacy center of greater west texas, inc.'s mission is to champion the prevention of child abuse and to serve as an ally of abused children with a dedication to securing a safe and nurturing home for each child.

Civil Rights

Pathways Youth and Family Services Inc

Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.

Human Services

The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services

Crisis Center of West Texas

Crisis center of west texas' mission is to respond, shelter, and educate to end domestic and sexual violence in west texas.

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Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health

Youth and Family Alliance

Youth and family alliance (dba lifeworks) is a fearless advocate for youth and young adults pursuing a life they love and a stable future for themselves and their families. we strive to break cycles of instability by providing support and…

Human Services

Safehome Inc

To break the cycle of domestic violence and partner abuse for victims and their children by providing shelter, advocacy, counseling and prevention education in our community.

Human Services

Arizona's Children Association

The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Human Services

Family and Child Guidance Center

Our mission is to provide quality mental health services to children and adults in low income families who are impacted by severe and persistent mental illness, emotional disturbances, child abuse and neglect, high-risk behaviors and…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Center Texas; the most unlike its peers is Blue Bird LifeWays. 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

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 79 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/43

Grantees still filing

30/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,521,353Education$1,422,457Human Services$432,000Arts & Culture$90,457Health$80,457Crime & Legal$15,914Civil Rights$15,000

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

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.

The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY13.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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 The Albany Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Albany 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home