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The Wine & Food Foundation of Texas

All activities involve food and wine related education, events, seminars, and other activities directly related to the publics awareness of the uses of food and wine or raising money for the community.

$74k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Food & Nutrition$229kArts & Culture$70kCivil Rights$45kHousing & Shelter$15kAnimals$7k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $64,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $73,750 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,250 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER$25,000
CARITAS OF AUSTIN$15,000
KEEP AUSTIN FED$12,500
SUNDAY LUNCHBOX$12,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 20% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%LIFT COLLECTIVE: $15k → 10%SOUTHERN SMOKE: $70k → 16%LIFT COLLECTIVE: $15k → 10%LIFT COLLECTIVE: $15k → 10%SUNDAY LUNCHBOX: $12k → 10%TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE EXTENSION: $10k → 10%CARITAS OF AUSTIN: $15k → 10%KEEP AUSTIN FED: $25k → 10%KEEP AUSTIN FED: $25k → 10%KEEP AUSTIN FED: $13k → 10%AUSTIN FOOD & WINE ALLIANCE: $10k → 10%AUSTIN PETS ALIVE: $7k → 10%URBAN ROOTS: $42k → 10%SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: $25k → 10%SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: $25k → 10%SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: $25k → 10%URBAN ROOTS: $10k → 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.
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$235k · 4 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$235k
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+42%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalCivil RightsAnimalsOther
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

  • SF
    SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +144%
  • KA
    KEEP AUSTIN FED
    3× · 2023–2025 · $63k · revenue -2%
  • AY
    AUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS
    2× · 2017–2023 · $52k · revenue -18%

Funded once

  • SS
    Southern Smoke Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue -64%
  • TA
    TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • TF
    Texas Food & Wine Alliance fka Austin F&W Alliancegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +42%
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
Farmshare Austin

Farmshare Austin's mission is to grow a healthy, just and equitable local food system by increasing community food access and cultivating new farmers.

Food & Nutrition
2
Good Work Austin

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.

Public Benefit
3
Save the Food

Reduce hunger and food insecurity by providing food to people in need while reducing food waste.

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4
Urban Harvest Inc

Urban Harvest is transforming food accessibility in Greater Houston through partnerships with local farmers and gardeners, vibrant Farmers Markets and mobile markets, and comprehensive garden education. Our goal is not just to improve, but…

Environment
5
Our Shared Kitchen Inc

Meal support for unhoused and food-insecure Austinites

Food & Nutrition
6
Feeding America Texas

Feeding America Texas operates exclusively for charitable purposes by supporting food assistance, hunger relief, and community aid initiatives for individuals and families experiencing food insecurity throughout Texas. The organization…

Food & Nutrition
7
Fruitful Commons

Every neighborhood has vibrant spaces that reconnect people to growing food, nature and each other.

Environment
8
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
9
Atx Helps

ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.

Human Services
10
Urban Bicycle Food Ministry
Human Services
11
Texas Center for Local Food

The Texas Center for Local Food provides education, research, and technical assistance to create regional food systems in Texas that support prosperous family farms, healthy Texans and vibrant rural economies.

Human Services
12
Grow Local South Texas

Our mission is to grow a healthy local community by improving access to, education about and advocacy for affordable nutrient dense foods with children's teaching gardens, our farmers market, producer education and community outreach.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Youth & Community Farm Inc Dba Urban Roots; the most unlike its peers is Grace Campus. 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

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: $75,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTERCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $15,000 · OtherCARITAS OF AUSTINTEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH: $10,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCHTexas Food & Wine Alliance fka Austin F&W Alliance: $10,000 · OtherTexas Food & Wine Alliance fka Aus…KEEP AUSTIN FED: $62,500 · Food & NutritionKEEP AUSTIN FEDSUNDAY LUNCHBOX: $12,000 · Food & NutritionSUNDAY LUNCHBOXSouthern Smoke Foundation: $70,130 · Arts & CultureSouthern Smoke Founda…AUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS: $52,450 · Youth DevelopmentAUSTIN YOUTH & C…LIFT COLLECTIVE: $45,000 · Civil RightsLIFT COLLECTI…GRACE CAMPUS: $7,000 · Crime & LegalAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $6,638 · Animals
Other$110,000Food & Nutrition$74,500Arts & Culture$70,130Youth Development$52,450Civil Rights$45,000Crime & Legal$7,000Animals$6,638

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSouthern Smoke Foundation: $70,130 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKEEP AUSTIN FED: $62,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS: $52,450 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLIFT COLLECTIVE: $45,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNDAY LUNCHBOX: $12,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTexas Food & Wine Alliance fka Austin F&W Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $6,638 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 BureauAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Austin Community Foundation IncTX15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Better Business Bureau · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Wine & Food Foundation of Texas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wine & Food Foundation of Texas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.

    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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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