· Private foundation
The Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Families SCN2A Foundation | $40,000 |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $35,500 |
| MD Anderson | $10,000 |
| Harmon Recovery Foundation | $10,000 |
| Columbia University | $10,000 |
| University of Incarnate Word | $5,000 |
| Desert Community Found Eldorado CC Scholarship | $3,000 |
| Desert Community Fnd Toscana Scholarship Fund | $2,000 |
| United Way | $2,000 |
| Hoover Institution | $2,000 |
| San Antonio Muesuem of Art | $1,000 |
| Madeira School | $1,000 |
| Trinity University | $1,000 |
| Blind Book Club | $1,000 |
| South Texas Property Rights Assn | $1,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of The Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EMEisenhower Medical Center9× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +94%
- TFTHE FAMILIESCN2A FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $121k · revenue +409%
- SMSAINT MARYS HALL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +46%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue -21%- MCManhattan Childrens Foundationone grant, 2020 · $11k
- CAChildren's Academyone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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…
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.
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Baylor college of medicine (bcm) is committed to advancing human health through the integration of patient care, research, education, and community services.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
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.
See Disclosure Above.
The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 70 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 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 HARMON RECOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds MCC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds The New York and Presbyterian Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAN'S PROPERTY RIGHTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Agricultural Land Trust ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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