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Sooch 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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $861k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFEWORKS AUSTN | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS | $100,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF AUSTIN TEXAS INC | $60,000 |
| TEXAS EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY | $51,000 |
| SKILLPOINT ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES | $50,000 |
| SAN JUAN DIEGO CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| CAPITAL IDEA | $50,000 |
| PELOTONU | $50,000 |
| CODE2COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| LEVEL | $50,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TX | $50,000 |
| TODOS JUNTOS LEARNING CENTER | $50,000 |
| E4 YOUTH | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $282k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- SASkillpoint Alliance7× · 2017–2024 · $445k · revenue +153%
- BABetter ATX8× · 2017–2024 · $430k · revenue +70%
- AYAMERICAN YOUTHWORKS6× · 2019–2024 · $375k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- AOAUSTIN OPPORTUNITY YOUTH COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2017 · $40k
- KAKIPP AUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCone grant, 2018 · $35k
- TJTODOS JUNTOSone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
To provide technology training and access to the community, fostering skills that enable people to succeed in the digital age.
To increase the collective impact of our member organization on improving education economic development outcomes within the Austin Community.
First3years nurtures early relational and mental health of infants and toddlers in texas. working in deep collaboration with caregivers, parents, and professionals statewide, we cultivate strong early childhood systems, educate our…
Engage in building procted to provide emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent housing while offering job skills training and support to help residents move toward self-sufficiency.
To lead the region's workforce system in the development of a world-class workforce.
Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Coalition of Central Texas and the most unlike its peers is Economic Growth Business Incubator. 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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 54 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 Skillpoint Alliance ↗
- Who funds Better ATX ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS ↗
- Who funds PELOTONU INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Tri-Angel Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds Todos Juntos Learning Center ↗
- Who funds Capital Investing in Development and Employment of Adults Inc ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CODE2COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds E4 YOUTH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COALITION OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Front Steps Inc ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC GROWTH BUSINESS INCUBATOR ↗
- Who funds Film Society of Austin Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Webber Family Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · Trellis Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · The Long Foundation · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin
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 Sooch 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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