· Private foundation
The Lsg Charitable 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.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE BETH SHALOM | $100,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $25,000 |
| DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| VELA | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - DARREN WALKERS SCHOLARS PROGRAM | $4,500 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $1,000 |
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum8× · 2017–2024 · $331k · revenue +9%
- SAST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL4× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +91%
- BBREAKTHROUGH3× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- T2THE 2033 HIGHER EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue ×28 · 71% of their budget
- TMThe McCombs School of Business Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $190k · revenue +167%
- TCTULANE CANCER CENTERone grant, 2022 · $125k
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.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.
The foundation is committed to serving charitable needs both domestically and abroad through charitable grants and services at the discretion of the board of trustees.
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As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is E3 Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Brentwood Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 59 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 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds THE 2033 HIGHER EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The McCombs School of Business Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Tri-Angel Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds SHALOM AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds E3 ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute 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 · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Mfi Foundation · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin · Ascension Seton · St David's Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation
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 Lsg Charitable 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.