How much does The Pine Foundation give?

The Pine Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $167,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Pine Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Environment (25%), Youth Development (19%).

Who are The Pine Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Taking Care of Texas ($840k), Texas Book Festival ($750k), Austin Explore Inc ($650k).

Does The Pine Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Pine Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Pine Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Still Water Foundation.

Where is The Pine Foundation based?

The Pine Foundation is based in TX.

The Pine Foundation

The Pine Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Pine Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$167k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$998kEnvironment$843kYouth Development$650kFood & Nutrition$434kEducation$175kHuman Services$125kReligion$72kHealth$50kOther$0

02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $17k
$10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL	$100,000
BUGGY BARN MUSEUM	$30,000
JOHNSON CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT	$20,000
JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES	$7,000
THE JAMES DICK FOUNDATION	$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE HOMELESS	$5,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.9M · 8 repeat orgs$495k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.9M

$463k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%

+21%

Still filing today

88%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

TC
Taking Care of Texas
5× · 2017–2021 · $840k · revenue +727% · 39% of their budget
TB
Texas Book Festival
8× · 2017–2024 · $750k · revenue +90%
AE
AUSTIN EXPLORE INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $650k · revenue +375%

Funded once

KT
KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
one grant, 2023 · $125k
HH
HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC
one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -1%
AR
AUSTIN RESTORATION MINISTRIES INC
one grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue +19%

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.

Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust

We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.

Environment

Texas Flying Legends Museum

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Texas Prairieland Foundation

Philanthropy

Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment

Central Texas Animal Sanctuary

Animal rescue and rehabilitation

Animals

Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture

Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture

Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement

Kimbell Art Foundation

Arts & Culture

Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights

Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bamberger Ranch Preserve. 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

16 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. 16 of the 24 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/16

Grantees still filing

12/16

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$840,000Recreation & Sports$750,000Education$700,000Other$485,000Arts & Culture$243,000Human Services$212,000Food & Nutrition$207,000

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.

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 Foundation IncTX17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Still Water Foundation · The Moody Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Pine Foundation?

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home