· Private foundation
The Austin Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC | $15,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $15,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $12,000 |
| PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| CITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| THRIVE APPALACHIA | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| WETA | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF YANCEY COUNTY INC DBA COMPASSIONATE CAR | $500 |
| DIG IN YANCEY COMMUNITY GARDEN | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of The Austin Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 2 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College7× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +47%
- TRTOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +31%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC3× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- TPThe Poor Peoples Campaign Incone grant, 2019 · $10k
- SRSouthern Reconciliation Ministries Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +93%
- YCYANCY COUNTY SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $8k
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.
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.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
Represent the agriculture, forestry, and agribusiness community in virginia.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 73 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Mountain Air Community Fund Inc · Amy Wellness Foundation · Pga Tour Charities Inc · United Community Bank Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Ibm International Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Austin Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Austin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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