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The Webber Family Foundation at a glance

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The Webber Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$4.5MArts & Culture$804kYouth Development$637kCivil Rights$576kPhilanthropy$330kCommunity Improvement$310kHuman Services$125kHousing & Shelter$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $950k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$250,000
Civitas Institute at UT Austin$100,000
University of Austin - UATX$100,000
Creative Action$43,000
The Montgomery College Fd$42,250
Austin Achieve Public Schools$40,500
One America Movement$35,000
Shield Ranch Foundation$34,500
Austin Together$33,000
Spur Local$30,000
Leadership Austin$29,500
Individual grant recipient$29,375
Thinkery$28,875
Constructive Dialogue Institute$28,000
Resetting the Table$28,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FACETS: $5k → 6%FACETS: $3k → 6%FACETS: $2k → 6%FACETS: $1k → 6%Aspire Afterschool Learning: $3k → 7%Aspire Afterschool Learning: $3k → 7%For Love of Children: $3k → 14%Future Link: $20k → 8%Future Link: $3k → 8%Open Door Preschool: $23k → 10%Open Door Preschool: $5k → 10%Open Door Preschool: $3k → 10%Carrying Hope: $3k → 10%Lifeworks Austin: $8k → 10%Lifeworks Austin: $4k → 10%Lifeworks Austin: $3k → 10%Carrying Hope: $4k → 10%Open Door Preschool: $30k → 10%Open Door Preschool: $21k → 10%Open Door Preschool: $3k → 10%Open Door Preschool: $3k → 10%Capital IDEA: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 73 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
76

Total granted

$6.0M
$812k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+22%

Still filing today

73%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $564k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & 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

  • B
    BREAKTHROUGH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $463k · revenue +199%
  • CA
    Creative Action
    8× · 2017–2024 · $274k · revenue +54%
  • MS
    MAINSPRING SCHOOLS INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $258k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • CF
    CATALOGUE FOR PHILANTHROPY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • LC
    LITERACY COALITION OF CENTRAL TEXAS
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -60%
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.

1
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
2
The Royal School System

The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.

Education
3
Breakthrough Houston

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.

Education
4
Wonderworks

Wonderworks educates students to become better-qualified college applicants and better equipped to succeed in undergraduate studies by exploring challenging subject matter and techniques in a college setting.

Education
5
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
6
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
7
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
8
Bosque School

To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.

Education
9
Illumination Education Inc

Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) provides a safe and challenging learning environment that cultivates students' academic and artistic excellence.

Education
10
St John's School

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…

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11
Democracy Prep Texas

To educate responsible citizen-scholars for success in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship.

Education
12
Communities in Schools of Central Texas

Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is E4 Youth Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Atidna International. 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

124 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 124 of the 181 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/124
Grantees still filing
82/124
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Montgomery College Fd: $394,750 · OtherThe Montgomery College FdAustin Classical Guitar Soc: $302,950 · OtherAustin Classical Guitar SocIndividual grant recipient: $261,875 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCivitas Institute at UT Austin: $200,000 · OtherCivitas Institute at UT AustinHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $170,000 · OtherSi Se PuedeTodos Juntos: $152,500 · Other+82 more: $1,332,624 · Other+82 moreBREAKTHROUGH: $463,366 · EducationBREAKTHROUGHMAINSPRING SCHOOLS INC: $258,000 · EducationMAINSPRING SCHOOLS INCAUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $215,500 · EducationAUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCUATX: $200,000 · EducationUATXCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $147,500 · EducationCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INCPELOTONU INC: $132,500 · EducationWAYSIDE SCHOOLS: $120,000 · EducationKIPP Texas Inc: $116,210 · EducationCOLLEGETRACKS INC: $102,500 · EducationSt Edwards University: $89,500 · EducationGENERATION HOPE: $85,500 · Education+32 more: $616,100 · Education+32 moreCreative Action: $274,000 · Arts & CultureCreative A…MINDPOP: $155,000 · Arts & CultureMINDPOPHISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $76,750 · Arts & CultureHISPANIC A…AUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $73,875 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN CHI…Young Playwrights Theater: $60,000 · Arts & CultureYoung Play…+14 more: $94,000 · Arts & Culture+14 moreSPUR LOCAL INC: $185,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $143,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN: $26,600 · Philanthropy+1 more: $4,900 · PhilanthropyANDREW S RODDICK FOUNDATION INC: $100,500 · Youth DevelopmentE4 YOUTH INCORPORATED: $42,000 · Youth DevelopmentCODE2COLLEGE: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH: $34,500 · Youth DevelopmentLEADERSHIP AUSTIN: $29,500 · Youth Development+8 more: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTri-Angel Unlimited Inc: $90,000 · Community ImprovementAUSTIN TOGETHER FUND: $83,000 · Community ImprovementBetter ATX: $8,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,000 · Community ImprovementOPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL: $85,000 · Human ServicesFUTURE LINK INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $14,000 · Human ServicesFACETS CARES INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesCarrying Hope: $6,700 · Human ServicesASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $6,000 · Human Services+2 more: $6,000 · Human Services
Other$3,314,699Education$2,546,676Arts & Culture$733,625Philanthropy$360,000Youth Development$271,500Community Improvement$182,000Human Services$151,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBREAKTHROUGH: $463,366 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCreative Action: $274,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetMAINSPRING SCHOOLS INC: $258,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetAUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $215,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUATX: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPUR LOCAL INC: $185,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $170,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMINDPOP: $155,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $147,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $143,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPELOTONU INC: $132,500 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetWAYSIDE SCHOOLS: $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP Texas Inc: $116,210 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE FORWARD: $105,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCOLLEGETRACKS INC: $102,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetANDREW S RODDICK FOUNDATION INC: $100,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTri-Angel Unlimited Inc: $90,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSt Edwards University: $89,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGENERATION HOPE: $85,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetOPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL: $85,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetAUSTIN TOGETHER FUND: $83,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetMISSION CAPITAL: $80,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $76,750 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetNYOS CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $73,875 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $65,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJubilee Jumpstart: $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetYoung Playwrights Theater: $60,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetE3 ALLIANCE: $50,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetIDEA Public Schools: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING: $47,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetTHE ONE AMERICA MOVEMENT: $44,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetE4 YOUTH INCORPORATED: $42,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCODE2COLLEGE: $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH: $34,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetINTERFAITH AMERICA: $34,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILIES EMPOWERED: $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLEADERSHIP AUSTIN: $29,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE INSTITUTE INC: $28,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRESETTING THE TABLE INC: $28,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $27,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN: $26,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetStepping Stones Shelter Inc: $25,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetInstitute for Multipartisan Education Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLITERACY COALITION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 BREAKTHROUGH ↗
  • Who funds Creative Action ↗
  • Who funds MAINSPRING SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds UATX ↗
  • Who funds SPUR LOCAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds MINDPOP ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PELOTONU INC ↗
  • Who funds WAYSIDE SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGETRACKS INC ↗
  • Who funds ANDREW S RODDICK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Tri-Angel Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds St Edwards University ↗
  • Who funds GENERATION HOPE ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN TOGETHER FUND ↗
  • Who funds MISSION CAPITAL ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds NYOS CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Jubilee Jumpstart ↗
  • Who funds Young Playwrights Theater ↗
  • Who funds E3 ALLIANCE ↗

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 Foun…Better Business BureauUnited Way for Greate…The Applied Materials…St David's FoundationShield-Ayres Foundati…The Powell FoundationTopfer Family Foundat…Harry E and Eda L Mon…The Moody FoundationAlice Kleberg Reynold…Philip L Graham Fund …
Austin Community Foundation IncTX90.5× affinity55 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Better Business Bureau · United Way for Greater Austin · The Applied Materials Foundation · St David's Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · The Moody Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Art Works Studio School Inc: 23% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Webber Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Webber Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 181 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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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