· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Salvation Army | $10,000 |
| Bridge International Christian Academy | $10,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | $10,000 |
| AMED Global Arriba Maestros de Escuela | $10,000 |
| Turning Point USA | $10,000 |
| The Arc of San Antonio | $10,000 |
| Mission to World | $10,000 |
| Lakes Area Care | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- AKAUSTIN KOREAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- JHJOSEPHS HAMMERone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- CBCROSSING BORDERS MINISTRIESone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORP ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHS HAMMER ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HELPING CENTER OF MARBLE FALLS ↗
- Who funds GET UP PROJECT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fred and Armour Shin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fred and Armour Shin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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