· Private foundation
The Kodosky Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of The Kodosky Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Austin Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Kodosky Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $306k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k12 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $90,000 |
| AUSTIN OPERA | $62,000 |
| AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $26,200 |
| CONSPIRARE | $18,200 |
| AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY | $16,200 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $16,000 |
| BALLET AUSTIN | $16,000 |
| AUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER | $15,000 |
| ARMSTRONG COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE | $6,000 |
| KMFA | $5,000 |
| THINKERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| KLRU | $4,000 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| GIRLSTART | $4,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
24 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down. Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute8× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +25%- ALAUSTIN LYRIC OPERA8× · 2017–2024 · $343k · revenue +18%
- ACAUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TMTexas Museum of Science & Technologyone grant, 2017 · $15k
- JDJames Dick Foundation for the Performing Artsgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +61%
- LCLONG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
Founded in 1993, American Festival for the Arts (AFA) provides high quality community-based music education programs and performance opportunities designed primarily for youth and, through its concert series and outreach, seeks to broaden…
To present, promote, encourage, and advance musical education and enjoyment of orchestra music to the citizens of austin and central texas.
American baroque opera company operates in the state of texas for the primary purpose of furthering the appreciaton of music, particularly opera, for the general public. american baroque opera company performs select operas throughout the…
Education
Teach choral music to girls
To shape the future of classical music by energizing, modernizing, and personalizing the concert experience.
Austin Unconducted organized and performed several classical music concerts intended to expand the idea of what classical music can be and increase access to art music Ticketed concerts were sold out and other concerts were performed in…
TexARTS is an arts education and performance destination that builds character, professionalism, and careers. Its mission is to cultivate a thriving arts community by exposing all people to the visual and performing arts. TexARTS prepares…
Education/classical music. The Austin Baroque Orchestra & Chorus seeks to educate and edify its audiences by immersing them in the sound-world of the past by performing high-quality music from the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and…
CMI's mission is to cultivate classical music education and performance as a gateway to the arts.
Austin Classical School exists to glorify Jesus Christ by co-laboring with families to cultivate wise, virtuous, and humble students through an excellent classical, Christian education.
String Insiders' mission is to inspire violin, viola, and cello students through online and in-person connections to teachers, peers, and a wealth of information that challenges and encourages them in their growth as a musician and helps…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Classical Guitar Society and the most unlike its peers is Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 29 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 AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA ↗
- Who funds CONSPIRARE INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BALLET AUSTIN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARMSTRONG COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE ↗
- Who funds Texas Museum of Science & Technology ↗
- Who funds Austin Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds LAFOLLIA AUSTIN BAROQUE ↗
- Who funds CHORUS AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER ↗
- Who funds James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas 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.
Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Better Business Bureau · Eva & Marvin Womack Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Dianne Smith Goggan Foundation · Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation · Still Water Foundation · Rea Charitable Trust
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 Kodosky 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.