· Private foundation
The Foundation for Dreamers
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACTION AGAINST HUNGER USA | $45,000 |
| THE BEATRICE F KROESCHE | $6,000 |
| NOVA UKRAINE | $2,892 |
| MIRACLE FOUNDATION | $2,606 |
| NORWICH UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $933 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $676 |
| ST JUDE | $500 |
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 (FY18–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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 +66% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- AAACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA5× · 2021–2025 · $825k · revenue +37%
- TMTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +68%
- APAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC3× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +197%
Funded once
- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $35k
- TCTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2018 · $24k · revenue -25%
- TATarrant Area Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +26%
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)
As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…
Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Preserve access to quality healthcare for all texans
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 42 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 ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Nobelity Project ↗
- Who funds THE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds NOVA UKRAINE ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Norwich University ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Austin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Pets Alive Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Out Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WESTON A PRICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds Institute for Responsible Technology ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds Health Alliance for Austin Musicians ↗
- Who funds REFUGE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · United Way Worldwide · Shell USA Company Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Better Business Bureau · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving 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 Foundation for Dreamers 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.
- Norwich University — 4% 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.