· Private foundation
The Barilla 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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $920k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $250,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS | $250,000 |
| TEXAS EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| SAFE ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| LIFEWORKS - YOUTH & FAMILY ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| ABUNDANT LIFE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $70,000 |
| FAMILY ELDERCARE | $50,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CARING PLACE | $50,000 |
| BIG - BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN | $50,000 |
| OPPORTUNITIES FOR WILLIAMSON & BURNET COUNTIES (OWBC) | $50,000 |
| HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR AUSTIN MUSCIANS | $50,000 |
| MOBILE LOAVES AND FISHES | $50,000 |
| CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY (CASA) | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
Central Texas Food Bank Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +12%- BBREAKTHROUGH9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +199%
- TUTri-Angel Unlimited Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +164%
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES DISABLED VETSone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SHSAFE HOUSE PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +69%
The Houston Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +107%
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.
Engage in building procted to provide emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent housing while offering job skills training and support to help residents move toward self-sufficiency.
Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.
ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.
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Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
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…
To provide research, education and advocacy related to affordable housing
Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.
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To ensure and preserve quality, affordable housing opportunities for low- to moderate-income families in austin as well as provide financial literacy and homeownership opportunities.
Reduce hunger and help the environment by connecting surplus food with our neighbors in need.
Austin Allies' mission is to organize meaningful volunteer opportunities for families in the Greater Austin area by partnering with local nonprofits and those that they serve. Austin Allies is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization started by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 84 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 Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds Tri-Angel Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ELDERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ABUNDANT LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds Health Alliance for Austin Musicians ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Austin Wildlife Rescue ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN EXPLORE INC ↗
- Who funds SONGWRITINGWITHINC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE SERVICES OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of Williamson County Texas ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds I LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GEORGETOWN ↗
- Who funds INSIDE BOOKS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC ↗
- Who funds THE SIMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Creative Action ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Topfer Family Foundation · I Live Here I Give Here · United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · Rwh Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Ecg Foundation · Central Texas Community Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · United Way Worldwide
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 Barilla Foundation Inc 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.