· Private foundation
The Ruth and Edward Austin 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 $10k29 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $31,000 |
| Families SCN2A Foundation | $30,000 |
| Children's Academy (NYC) | $10,000 |
| The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | $10,000 |
| Harmon Recovery Foundation | $10,000 |
| University of Incarnate Word | $5,000 |
| Hoover Institution | $2,000 |
| The Children's Hospital of SA | $2,000 |
| Desert Community Fnd Toscana Scholarship Fund | $2,000 |
| United Way | $2,000 |
| Desert Community Foundation | $1,500 |
| Desert Community Found Eldorado CC Scholarship | $1,500 |
| South Texas Property Rights Assn | $1,000 |
| Texas Biomedical Institute | $1,000 |
| Trinity University | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- EMEisenhower Medical Center8× · 2017–2024 · $193k · revenue +94%
- TFTHE FAMILIESCN2A FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $81k · revenue +409%
- SMSAINT MARYS HALL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +46%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue -21%- MCManhattan Childrens Foundationone grant, 2020 · $11k
- TNThe New York and Presbyterian Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +87%
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.
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…
To further the missions of utsw and thr on a local, regional and national level through the creation of a clinically integrated network of physicians, hospitals and other care providers to deliver healthcare across the continuum and by…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Baylor college of medicine (bcm) is committed to advancing human health through the integration of patient care, research, education, and community services.
See Disclosure Above.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
South texas college of law houston provides a diverse body of students the opportunity to obtain an exceptional legal education, preparing graduates to serve their community and profession with distinction.
To create an integrated hospital system operating in the dallas area to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves without regard to their ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of the Incarnate Word and the most unlike its peers is Harmon Recovery 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 67 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 Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILIESCN2A FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS HALL INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds HARMON RECOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The New York and Presbyterian Hospital ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAN'S PROPERTY RIGHTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Agricultural Land Trust ↗
- Who funds JIMMY LEE SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD STUDY CENTER OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS GOLF ASSOCIATION 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.
Open a dossier: Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · The Brown Foundation Inc · Joseph & Martye Rubin Foundation · The Ewing Halsell Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ld Ormsby Charitable Foundation Inc · Fb Doane Foundation · The Jesse H and Susan R Oppenheimer Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Betty Stieren Kelso 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 Ruth and Edward Austin 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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