· Private foundation
The Tomblin Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOME | $25,000 |
| RAICES | $22,500 |
| FULL CIRCLE PROGRAM | $20,200 |
| FOSTER ANGELS OF CEN TX | $20,000 |
| LONESTAR LEGACY | $12,500 |
| KUT RADIO | $10,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| INDIGENOUS CULTURES INSTITUTE | $8,000 |
| AUSTIN ALLIES | $5,000 |
| TEXSAR | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| JUNETEENTH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIV ATHLETICS | $2,500 |
| CYCLE MOVEMENT | $1,750 |
| UNIV OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
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 (FY19–23, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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 Tomblin Family 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. Read by recipient address, 70% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 64% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 7 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- LLLONESTAR LEGACY9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +28%
- ICINDIGENOUS CULTURES INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +19%
- COCASA of Central Texas Inc5× · 2019–2023 · $35k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TLTHE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHONA SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $10k
- PFPARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +63%
- SSSTEM SCHOOL & ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
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Conserving colorado's western heritage and working landscapes for the benefit of future generations.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coastal Conservation Association and the most unlike its peers is Paul Basch Memorial 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 82 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 LONESTAR LEGACY ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS CULTURES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of Central Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN ALLIES ↗
- Who funds San Marcos River Foundation ↗
- Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SOBRIETY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Champions Off the Field ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS ↗
- Who funds LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ST FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds CLIFFORD ANTONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JANE'S DUE PROCESS INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL BASCH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXSAR INC ↗
- Who funds 5280 HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIGHTER LOADS ATX ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank 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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Caring for Denver Foundation · JP's Peace Love & Happiness Foundation · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Colorado Health 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 Tomblin Family 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.
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs 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.