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The Works of Grace Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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

VT
WA
ID
NY
MA
IN
CA
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation; 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 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. 19 of the 29 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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…United Way WorldwideRaymond James Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% 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, 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 29 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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