· Public charity
The Avj Foundation
The organization's exclusive purpose is to operate as a supporting organization for the benefit and support of the community foundation of abilene, a texas non-profit corporation described in sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1) of the code.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $45,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $64,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $25,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - NORTHEAST TEXAS CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| PARK CITIES QUAIL COALITION | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of your 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.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +29%
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +56%- PCPARK CITIES QUAIL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +384%
Funded once
- AYABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITYone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXASgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue +31%- AAABILENE ARTS ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +132%
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.
The mission is to provide enriching and educational experiences for the communities of the region through the promotion and support of artists.
The purpose of the Organization is to provide knowledge and understanding of economics, matters of public concern, finance, education and training, and problems of minority groups therby promoting the economy and quality of life in Abilene…
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Pregnancy Resources' mission is to inspire hope and unconditionally love everyone we serve by empowering them to thrive through compassionate support and positive solutions.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Support and strengthen austin public libraries
Creative waco's mission is to grow and support a thriving cultural and creative community in waco and mclennan county, texas.
The organization produces an opera or other musical production every year or every other year, and offers related Master Classes and other educational opportunities for elementary school through college.
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…
The mission of the Hill Country Alliance is to bring together a diverse coalition of partners to preserve the open spaces, starry night skies, clean and abundant waters, and unique character of the Texas Hill Country.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Abilene and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 27 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 ABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARK CITIES QUAIL INC ↗
- Who funds Disability Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ABILENE ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Christian Homes of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds Bobwhite Brigade ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds Historic Paramount Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE ↗
- Who funds OLD JAIL ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds All Kind Animal Initiative ↗
- Who funds AMBLESIDE SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHACKELFORD COUNTY COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Global Samaritan Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds Abilene Preservation League 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: Community Foundation of Abilene · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Barber Foundation · Greathouse Foundation · Shelton Family Foundation · The Legett Foundation · The Karakin Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Avj 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.
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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