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The Works of Grace 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.

$156k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$104k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$372kInternational$291kPhilanthropy$116kFood & Nutrition$48kArts & Culture$34kRecreation & Sports$24kHealth$8kHuman Services$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $104k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALE$104,300
MOBILE LOAVES AND FISHES$20,000
CHAPEL & YORK FOUNDATION$11,000
ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION$10,000
CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION$5,000
THE TRAIL FOUNDATION$5,000
RHODESIIAN RIDGEBACK RESCUE FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICE: $500 → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
WA
ID
NY
MA
IN
CA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$742k · 7 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
18

Total granted

$742k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+13%

Still filing today

71%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalReligionOther

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

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $355k · revenue +122%
  • ML
    MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +10%
  • TR
    THE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -28%
  • Central Texas Food Bank Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -28%
  • TT
    The Trail Conservancygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +113%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
2
Uatx

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,…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Austin College

The mission of austin college is to educate students in the liberal arts and sciences in order to prepare them for rewarding careers and for full, engaged and meaningful lives.

Education
5
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Larkin Street Youth Services. 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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $355,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY+3 more — $12,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF PRINCE WILLIAM AND PRINCE HARRY — $291,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL FOUNDATION O…THE TRAIL FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherTHE TRAIL FOUNDATION+13 more — $35,000 · Other+13 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES — $104,300 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIEN…CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & YORK …MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $40,000 · ReligionTHE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER — $3,500 · Arts & CultureWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER — $2,500 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth Services — $500 · Human ServicesCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $7,500 · Food & Nutrition
Education$367,000Other$346,000Philanthropy$115,300Religion$40,000Arts & Culture$33,500Human Services$8,000Food & Nutrition$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $355,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES — $104,300 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trail Conservancy — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Nobelity Project — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Works of Grace 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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