· Private foundation
The Fred and Armour Shin Foundation
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 FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $231k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Asian American Resource Center Inc | $35,000 |
| Burnet Presbyterian Church | $33,000 |
| Korean Culture Center of Austin | $24,783 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $20,000 |
| Down Syndrome Association of S TX | $20,000 |
| ICEJ | $15,000 |
| Austin Korean Senior Citizens Association | $13,000 |
| Mission to World | $10,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | $10,000 |
| AMED Global Arriba Maestros de Escuela | $10,000 |
| The Arc of San Antonio | $10,000 |
| Turning Point USA | $10,000 |
| Bridge International Christian Academy | $10,000 |
| Salvation Army | $10,000 |
| Lakes Area Care | $7,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 12 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
- TATHE ARC OF SAN ANTONIO INC2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +5%
- LALAKES AREA CARE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue +24%
- AKAUSTIN KOREAN SCHOOL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- CBCROSSING BORDERS MINISTRIESone grant, 2024 · $5k
- JHJOSEPHS HAMMERone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- AKAUSTIN KOREAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.
Empowers older and disabled adults to live independentlly in thier own homes by providing nutritious home-delivered meals, safety checks, socialization, and community connection, which result in an enhanced quality of life and purpose as…
To respect the welfare and human dignity of all people and to provide health care services to Collin County, Texas adult residents who have little or no access to traditional medical services. In addition to basic medical care for adults…
Sa christian dental clinic's mission is to extend christ's healing by providing charitable dental care to underserved bexar county adults. the vision of the clinic is a commitment to creating a community in which dental care and optimal…
Grace community healthcare ministry is an independent, faith based non-profit community healthcare organization in mineola, texas, serving the medically underserved residents of the area. following the example of the great physician, the…
Lone star circle of care provides exceptional and accessible patient centered healthcare for our texas neighbors, focusing on the underserved.
Provides support to critically ill or physically impaired homeless and indigent individuals in Austin by providing food, shelter, clothing, and other forms of assistance. Also serves as advocate for imprisoned men and women.
Northwest Austin Universal Health Clinic (NAUHC) helps unisured and under-insured adults build healthier, happier lives, and be more productive. Through an innovative patient-focused model of healthcare, NAUHC provides high-quaility…
Provide care, assistance, and counseling for abused women. Provide food for needy families.
We are a faith based non-profit organization that serves and cares for members in our community experiencing homelessness in the East Lancaster corridor of Fort Worth, TX. Every Sunday evening, we provide warm meals, drinks, clothes, hair…
Compassionately serving forgotten overlooked neglected and underserved adults in the Garland and Dallas County area by providing free dental and vision care building trusting relationships and sharing hope.
The center is a care provider rendering life sustaining assistance to the indigent and job training and placement for able bodied clients withouth regard to religious preference, political affiliation, sex, race, handicap, or other…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian American Resource Center Inc Austin Asian Community Health Initiative 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.
15 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. 15 of the 39 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds KOREAN CULTURE CENTER OF AUSTIN INC ↗
- Who funds Asian American Resource Center Inc Austin Asian Community Health Initiative ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN KOREAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORP ↗
- Who funds GET UP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE HELPING CENTER OF MARBLE FALLS ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHS HAMMER ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH 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.
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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 Fred and Armour Shin 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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