· Private foundation
The Mr and Mrs Joe W Bratcher Jr 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of THE MR AND MRS JOE W BRATCHER JR FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $223k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| ST DAVIDS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE SETON FUND | $30,000 |
| PIONEER FARMS | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| EQUINE CUSHING'S AND INSULIN RESISTANCE GROUP | $20,000 |
| HOSPICE AUSTIN | $20,000 |
| AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CARITAS OF AUSTIN | $15,000 |
| KUT | $11,500 |
| KCRW FOUNDATION | $11,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AUSTIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR | $8,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- SDST DAVID'S FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $209k · revenue +85%
Central Texas Food Bank Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $138k · revenue +8%- HAHOSPICE AUSTIN7× · 2018–2024 · $137k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Austin palliative care provides medical director services to hospice austin as well as palliative care to patients who are not yet admitted to hospice programs.
Hermann Park Conservancy is a citizens organization dedicated to the stewardship and improvement of Hermann Park - today and for generations to come.
Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
We mobilize ideas and resources to strengthen central texas.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St David's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kamukama Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 22 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 ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TreeFolks Inc ↗
- Who funds Pease Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds KAMUKAMA FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Mr and Mrs Joe W Bratcher Jr 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.
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