· Private foundation
The Pacey Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY CAMP PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| LIFEWORKS | $7,500 |
| ST LOUISE HOUSE | $7,000 |
| YMCA | $5,000 |
| SAFE | $5,000 |
| MAINSPRING SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH | $5,000 |
| MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES | $4,000 |
| CHARIOT (DRIVE A SENIOR) | $4,000 |
| RIO BRAVO MINISTRIES | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BALLET AUSTIN | $2,000 |
| TRAVIS COUNTY SWIM CLUB | $2,000 |
| AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA | $2,000 |
| MAKARIOS | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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 +66% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMAINSPRING SCHOOLS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +7%
- BBREAKTHROUGH5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +119%
- AYAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- YAYOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +49%
- SEST EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY CAMP PROGRAone grant, 2020 · $10k
- RBRIO BRAVO MINISTRYone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
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How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 31 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 MAINSPRING SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds FUN4SENIORS ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds RIO BRAVO MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BALLET AUSTIN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Creative Action ↗
- Who funds Mark Felice Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAKARIOS ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS COUNTRY SWIM CLUB ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DRIVE A SENIOR NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING 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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Topfer Family Foundation · Better Business Bureau · The Powell Foundation · The Seawell Elam Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · The Applied Materials Foundation · St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · United Way Worldwide · One Skye Foundation Inc · Ecg Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Pacey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pacey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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