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The Kodosky Foundation at a glance

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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.

$306k
Granted FY2023
20
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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’17
15
’18
15
’19
12
’20
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’21
12
’22
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’23
12
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$4.1MArts & Culture$1.2MEducation$647kYouth Development$32kPublic Benefit$27kScience & Tech$15kCivil Rights$12kOther$0
02FY2023 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k12 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
$6,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THINKERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$5,000
KMFA$5,000
GIRLSTART$4,000
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY$4,000
KLRU$4,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $90k → 11%TEXAS MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: $15k → 10%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $90k → 11%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $50k → 11%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $40k → 11%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $40k → 11%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $40k → 11%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $40k → 11%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $35k → 11%AUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER: $15k → 10%AUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER: $15k → 10%AUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER: $15k → 10%AUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER: $15k → 10%AUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER: $15k → 10%AUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER: $15k → 10%AUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER: $15k → 10%AUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER: $15k → 10%AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $26k → 10%AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $25k → 10%AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $25k → 10%THE AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $17k → 10%BALLET AUSTIN: $16k → 10%THE AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 10%AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 10%BALLET AUSTIN: $15k → 10%BALLET AUSTIN: $15k → 10%BALLET AUSTIN: $15k → 10%BALLET AUSTIN: $15k → 10%THE AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 10%BALLET AUSTIN: $15k → 10%BALLET AUSTIN: $15k → 10%THE AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 10%BALLET AUSTIN: $15k → 10%AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4.1M → 10%AUSTIN OPERA: $62k → 10%AUSTIN OPERA: $55k → 10%AUSTIN OPERA: $51k → 10%AUSTIN OPERA: $50k → 10%AUSTIN OPERA: $50k → 10%AUSTIN OPERA: $25k → 10%AUSTIN OPERA: $25k → 10%AUSTIN OPERA: $25k → 10%CONSPIRARE: $18k → 10%CONSPIRARE: $15k → 10%CONSPIRARE: $15k → 10%CONSPIRARE: $15k → 10%CONSPIRARE: $15k → 10%CONSPIRARE: $15k → 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.
$1.9M · 24 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
4

Total granted

$1.9M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+61%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
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

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    8× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +25%
  • AL
    AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $343k · revenue +18%
  • AC
    AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • TM
    Texas Museum of Science & Technology
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • JD
    James Dick Foundation for the Performing Artsgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +61%
  • KT
    KIPP Texas Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +756%
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
American Festival for the Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
2
The Austin Symphony Orchestra Society Inc

To present, promote, encourage, and advance musical education and enjoyment of orchestra music to the citizens of austin and central texas.

Arts & Culture
3
American Baroque Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Austin Camerata Inc

Education

Arts & Culture
5
Austin Girls' Choir

Teach choral music to girls

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6
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra

To shape the future of classical music by energizing, modernizing, and personalizing the concert experience.

Arts & Culture
7
Austin Unconducted

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…

Arts & Culture
8
TexArts Association for Visual & Performing Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Austin Baroque Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Classical Music Institute Cmi

CMI's mission is to cultivate classical music education and performance as a gateway to the arts.

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11
Austin Classical School

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.

Education
12
String Insiders

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Classical Guitar Society; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,081,646 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCAUSTIN LYRIC OPERA: $343,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN LYRIC O…CONSPIRARE INC: $123,200 · Arts & CultureCONSPIRARE INCBALLET AUSTIN INCORPORATED: $121,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET AUSTIN …AUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER: $120,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN CHAMBER…+5 more: $43,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $173,800 · OtherTHE UNIVERSI…AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $153,200 · OtherAUSTIN SYMPH…AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY: $121,200 · OtherAUSTIN CLASS…ARMSTRONG COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $64,000 · OtherARMSTRONG CO…CAPITOL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 · OtherCAPITOL BROA…TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $32,000 · OtherKLRU: $32,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE: $30,000 · Other+5 more: $37,000 · Other+5 moreRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $425,000 · EducationCLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE: $18,000 · Education+2 more: $16,000 · EducationGIRLSTART: $32,000 · Recreation & SportsTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $27,000 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$4,081,646Arts & Culture$750,200Other$683,200Education$459,000Recreation & Sports$32,000Civil Rights$27,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,081,646 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $425,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN LYRIC OPERA: $343,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetCONSPIRARE INC: $123,200 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetAUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY: $121,200 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetBALLET AUSTIN INCORPORATED: $121,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER: $120,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetARMSTRONG COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $64,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCAPITOL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLSTART: $32,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $27,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Museum of Science & Technology: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAustin Community College Foundation: $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR INQUIRY INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAFOLLIA AUSTIN BAROQUE: $8,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCHORUS AUSTIN: $8,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJames Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKIPP Texas Inc: $4,000 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 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 ↗

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…Better Business BureauEva & Marvin Womack F…Ibm International Fou…Greater Austin Perfor…Shield-Ayres Foundati…The Moody FoundationShell USA Company Fou…The Dianne Smith Gogg…Michael and Alice Kuh…Still Water FoundationRea Charitable Trust
Austin Community Foundation IncTX25.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 29 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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