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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.

$548k
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$495kEducation$384kHuman Services$377kFood & Nutrition$293kHealth$226kYouth Development$174kArts & Culture$156kHousing & Shelter$149kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $492k
$2,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$25,000
COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES$25,000
HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC$25,000
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LANSING$20,452
LOAVES & FISHERS FOOD PANTRY$20,000
ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$20,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY (TN)$20,000
TENNESSEE STATE PARKS CONSERVANCY$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $6k → 11%COCOTREE KIDS INC: $36k → 9%CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $20k → 9%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 10%CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $2k → 18%GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 9%ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES: $10k → 7%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 10%GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 9%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $6k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $8k → 17%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $2k → 7%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 10%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $2k → 14%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 10%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $1k → 14%MICHIGAN ORGANIZATION ON ADOLESCENT SEXUAL HEALTH (MOASH): $500 → 16%HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC: $25k → 17%HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC: $10k → 17%HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC: $2k → 17%WINGS FOR KIDS: $25k → 12%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $1k → 8%WINGS FOR KIDS: $15k → 12%HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC: $1k → 17%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $10k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $10k → 11%WINGS FOR KIDS: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

AK
NH
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MT
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IL
MI
NY
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OR
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WY
SD
IN
OH
PA
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CA
CO
KY
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MD
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AZ
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TN
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 63 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
112

Total granted

$1.6M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+28%

Still filing today

76%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • AP
    A Place To Turn Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $114k · revenue +106%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $104k · revenue +193%
  • NB
    NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • MA
    MEMPHIS ALLIES CO YOUTH VILLAGE
    one grant, 2023 · $60k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $54k
  • AB
    ALASKA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $51k · revenue +10%
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.

1
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
3
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

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…

Health
4
Food & Water Watch

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…

Food & Nutrition
5
The Vermont Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
6
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
7
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
8
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
9
Amazon Conservation Association

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…

Environment
10
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
11
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
12
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

122 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. 122 of the 201 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
122/122
Grantees still filing
96/122
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY (TN): $120,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY (TN)A Place To Turn Inc: $114,250 · OtherA Place To Turn IncSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $112,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTH+141 more: $1,469,202 · Other+141 moreCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $83,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMIL…Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $54,921 · Human ServicesMetropolitan …WINGS FOR KIDS: $41,000 · Human ServicesWINGS FOR KID…HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE DA…COCOTREE KIDS INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesCOCOTREE KIDS…GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $22,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITA…SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $22,000 · Human ServicesSCOPA HAS A D…APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesAPPETITE FOR …+8 more: $38,300 · Human Services+8 moreNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $90,000 · EnvironmentNAPLES BO…WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $65,000 · EnvironmentWOLF RIVE…ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $36,000 · EnvironmentASPEN VAL…Little Traverse Conservancy Inc: $30,000 · EnvironmentLittle Tr…Tennessee State Parks Conservancy: $20,000 · EnvironmentTennessee…CONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $10,000 · Environment+5 more: $8,650 · EnvironmentST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $65,000 · HealthDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 · HealthBOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $38,250 · HealthAbortion Fund of Ohio: $12,500 · Health+7 more: $7,400 · HealthEnglish in Action: $53,500 · EducationEarlham College Inc: $33,000 · EducationSan Marino Schools Foundation: $32,000 · EducationCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $13,500 · EducationTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $12,000 · Education+7 more: $17,000 · EducationMIFA CORPORATION: $80,714 · Community ImprovementALASKA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $51,380 · Community Improvement+3 more: $7,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $104,000 · Social Science
Other$1,815,452Human Services$355,221Environment$259,650Health$173,150Education$161,000Community Improvement$139,094Social Science$104,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA Place To Turn Inc: $114,250 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $112,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $104,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $83,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $65,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $54,921 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEnglish in Action: $53,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetALASKA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $51,380 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetInternational Center of Greater Flint: $50,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetSPARK KINDNESS INC: $46,500 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWINGS FOR KIDS: $41,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $39,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $38,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC: $38,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $36,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOCOTREE KIDS INC: $36,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetEarlham College Inc: $33,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Marino Schools Foundation: $32,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $22,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $22,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS AFTERSCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAPPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTennessee State Parks Conservancy: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Art Base: $14,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAbortion Fund of Ohio: $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINDEPENDENCE PASS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetElevated Access Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOakland Elizabeth House: $11,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HIRAM HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Aspen Community Found…Alpenglow FoundationAspen Business Center…Christian Community F…Thomas W Briggs Found…Brady FoundationCommunity Foundation …Colorado Gives Founda…Bf FoundationCatto Shaw FoundationRuth a Carver Foundat…The Thrift Shop
Aspen Community FoundationCO31.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to The Austin Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Austin Memorial 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.

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 201 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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