· Private foundation
The Lanoe & Paul Scherer Family Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAMSON MUSEUM | $26,094 |
| AUSTIN PETS ALIVE | $10,000 |
| HARVEST HOUSE | $10,000 |
| KLRU | $7,000 |
| SKY HIGH FOR KIDS | $5,181 |
| HRS TRUE HOPE | $5,100 |
| TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $189k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HHHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC7× · 2017–2023 · $146k · revenue +62%
- APAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +30%
- MLMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +320%
Funded once
- WCWILLIAMSON COUNTY MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $51k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LADY BIRD JOHNSON WILDFLOWER CENTERone grant, 2019 · $20k
- FOFRIENDS OF LAKE MCQUEENEYone grant, 2019 · $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.
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Reduce hunger and help the environment by connecting surplus food with our neighbors in need.
We mobilize ideas and resources to strengthen central texas.
To ensure and preserve quality, affordable housing opportunities for low- to moderate-income families in austin as well as provide financial literacy and homeownership opportunities.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
Texas housing conservancy (txhc) is a nonprofit that preserves long-term affordability in multifamily housing for texas' workforce by leveraging private capital without ongoing public subsidy.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
The fund is a type 1 supporting organization of hospice austin. assets of the fund are used for maintenance, support, and operations of hospice austin programs.
Our mission is to support low-income Texans efforts to achieve the American dream of a decent, affordable home in a quality neighborhood. We believe that Texas critical low-income housing and community development needs can best be solved…
Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).
How this is measured
17 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. 17 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.
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 HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds YMBL Sunshine Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TIDELINES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HRS TRUE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ALL ATX ↗
- Who funds THE KIDS OUTDOORS ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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.
Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Lanoe & Paul Scherer Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lanoe & Paul Scherer Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Harvest House Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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