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The Austin Memorial 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $492k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $45,000 |
| AUDUBON'S CORKSCREW SWAMP SANCTUARY | $37,500 |
| NEW MEXICO LOCAL NEWS | $36,000 |
| COCOTREE KIDS INC | $36,000 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY | $30,000 |
| COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LANSING | $20,452 |
| SPARK KINDNESS | $20,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY (TN) | $20,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHERS FOOD PANTRY | $20,000 |
| ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $297k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 23 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k 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
- APA Place To Turn Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $114k · revenue +106%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $104k · revenue +193%- NBNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- MAMEMPHIS ALLIES CO YOUTH VILLAGEone grant, 2023 · $60k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $54k
- ABALASKA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTERone grant, 2023 · $51k · revenue +10%
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
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.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Bullpen Project Inc. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
122 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. 122 of the 201 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 A Place To Turn Inc ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MIFA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ↗
- Who funds English in Action ↗
- Who funds ALASKA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds DYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds International Center of Greater Flint ↗
- Who funds SPARK KINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINGS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COCOTREE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Earlham College Inc ↗
- Who funds San Marino Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS ↗
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: Aspen Community Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Brady Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Bf Foundation · Catto Shaw Foundation · Ruth a Carver Foundation · The Thrift Shop
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 Austin Memorial 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.
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc — 82% of income from government
- Community Action Council of Howard County Maryland Inc — 44% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Welcome Home Inc — 2% of income from government
- Spark Kindness Inc — 1% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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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