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The Barilla Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$2.6MEducation$2.5MYouth Development$1.4MHuman Services$1.3MHousing & Shelter$801kCrime & Legal$534kHealth$437kCommunity Improvement$338kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $920k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS$250,000
CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK$250,000
TEXAS EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY$100,000
LIFEWORKS - YOUTH & FAMILY ALLIANCE$100,000
ABUNDANT LIFE FOUNDATION$100,000
SAFE ALLIANCE$100,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$70,000
FAMILY ELDERCARE$50,000
OPPORTUNITIES FOR WILLIAMSON & BURNET COUNTIES (OWBC)$50,000
CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY (CASA)$50,000
CARING PLACE$50,000
HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR AUSTIN MUSCIANS$50,000
BIG - BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN$50,000
MOBILE LOAVES AND FISHES$50,000
ROCKRIDEORG$50,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAITH IN ACTION: $2k → 10%HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN: $20k → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN: $10k → 6%WILLIAMSON COUNTY BROWN SANTA: $2k → 6%ABUNDANT LIFE FOUNDATION: $210k → 10%ABUNDANT LIFE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%ABUNDANT LIFE FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA: $2k → 10%LIFEWORKS AUSTIN: $159k → 10%LIFEWORKS AUSTIN: $152k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $102k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $100k → 10%LIFEWORKS AUSTIN: $86k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $70k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $70k → 10%LIFEWORKS AUSTIN: $4k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $102k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $100k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $62k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $50k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $50k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $34k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $5k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $4k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $2k → 10%LIFEWORKS AUSTIN: $559 → 10%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 57 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
23

Total granted

$10M
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+24%

Still filing today

51%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • Central Texas Food Bank Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +12%
  • B
    BREAKTHROUGH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +199%
  • TU
    Tri-Angel Unlimited Inc
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED STATES DISABLED VETS
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • SH
    SAFE HOUSE PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +69%
  • The Houston Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +107%
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
HomeAid Austin Inc

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.

Employment
2
Good Work Austin

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.

Public Benefit
3
Atx Helps

ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.

Human Services
4
Austin Street Center

The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…

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5
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
6
Center for Austin Independent Journalism

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…

Arts & Culture
7
HousingWorks Austin

To provide research, education and advocacy related to affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
8
Austin City Lutherans

Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.

Religion
9
Any Baby Can of Austin Inc

Any baby can, an austin-based nonprofit, partners with parents so children reach their full potential. with programs that meet clients where they are at home, work or school any baby can provides in-home therapy, parent education, mental…

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10
Austin Affordable Housing Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
Keep Austin Fed

Reduce hunger and help the environment by connecting surplus food with our neighbors in need.

Food & Nutrition
12
Austin Allies

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…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 84 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
32/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFEWORKS - YOUTH & FAMILY ALLIANCE: $902,000 · OtherLIFEWORKS - YOUTH & FAMILY ALLIANCECARING PLACE: $438,724 · OtherCARING PLACETHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $405,738 · OtherTHE SAFE ALLIANCEOPPORTUNITIES FOR WILLIAMSON & BURNET COUNTIES (OWBC): $308,272 · OtherOPPORTUNITIES FOR WILLIAMSON & BURNET COUNTIE…HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION: $254,233 · OtherHOPE HOUSE FOUNDATIONLIFEWORKS: $163,686 · OtherROCKRIDEORG: $152,166 · OtherCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY (CASA): $150,000 · Other+59 more: $1,350,650 · Other+59 moreFAMILY ELDERCARE INC: $407,887 · Human ServicesFAMILY ELDERCARE …YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $400,559 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND FAMILY …ABUNDANT LIFE FOUNDATION: $360,000 · Human ServicesABUNDANT LIFE FOU…MEALS ON WHEELS: $342,064 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS+5 more: $40,808 · Human ServicesCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $1,523,666 · Food & NutritionCentral Texas Fo…BREAKTHROUGH: $1,405,739 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH+1 more: $47,513 · EducationTri-Angel Unlimited Inc: $1,117,588 · Community ImprovementTri-Angel Un…+2 more: $27,392 · Community ImprovementMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $295,482 · ReligionHealth Alliance for Austin Musicians: $203,790 · Membership Benefit
Other$4,125,469Human Services$1,551,318Food & Nutrition$1,523,666Education$1,453,252Community Improvement$1,144,980Religion$295,482Membership Benefit$203,790

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 budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $1,523,666 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH: $1,405,739 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetTri-Angel Unlimited Inc: $1,117,588 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetFAMILY ELDERCARE INC: $407,887 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $405,738 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $400,559 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetABUNDANT LIFE FOUNDATION: $360,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $342,064 over 4y, 77% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $295,482 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHealth Alliance for Austin Musicians: $203,790 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $86,389 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAustin Wildlife Rescue: $70,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAUSTIN EXPLORE INC: $47,513 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSONGWRITINGWITHINC: $42,010 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetREFUGEE SERVICES OF TEXAS INC: $41,625 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCASA of Williamson County Texas: $38,122 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetAUSTIN ZOO INC: $35,957 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetI LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE: $35,700 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GEORGETOWN: $32,620 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetINSIDE BOOKS PROJECT: $30,956 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE SIMS FOUNDATION INC: $18,906 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCreative Action: $17,960 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HOUSE PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC: $12,392 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Heroes Inc: $11,002 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK: $10,577 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BLUE SANTA: $6,500 over 2y, 32% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE: $5,291 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,290 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAUSTIN POLICE ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA: $2,123 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION: $2,060 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAMSON COUNTY BROWN SANTA INC % TREASURER: $1,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Austin Community Foun…Topfer Family Foundat…I Live Here I Give He…United Way for Greate…St David's FoundationRwh FoundationBetter Business BureauEcg FoundationCentral Texas Communi…Shield-Ayres Foundati…The Webber Family Fou…United Way Worldwide
Austin Community Foundation IncTX43.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 84 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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