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Theodore P Davis Charitable Tr Xxxxx8005

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Food & Nutrition$149kHuman Services$127kHousing & Shelter$83kCrime & Legal$43kHealth$42kCommunity Improvement$18kInternational$10kCivil Rights$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SAFE ALLIANCE$15,000
FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUND$10,000
FAMILY ELDERCARE INC$10,000
CARITAS OF AUSTIN$8,000
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC$7,500
TEXAS ADVOCACY PROJECT$5,945
CHILDREN'S CANCER ASSOCIATION$5,000
CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK$4,500
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 (FY17–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $6k → 10%Austin Groups for the Elderly: $3k → 10%AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $3k → 10%Austin Groups for the Elderly: $3k → 10%AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $3k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE INC: $10k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE INC: $10k → 10%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.

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$416k · 13 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$416k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+78%

Still filing today

77%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCivil RightsHealthCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther

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

  • Central Texas Food Bank Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +12%
  • AH
    AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +271%
  • TS
    THE SAFE ALLIANCE
    6× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • TA
    TEXAS ADVOCAY PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • CF
    Center for Survivors of Torture
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +22%
  • AS
    ASCENSION SETON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +93%

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
Austin Street Center

The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…

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2
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
3
HomeAid Austin Inc

Engage in building procted to provide emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent housing while offering job skills training and support to help residents move toward self-sufficiency.

Employment
4
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
5
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
6
Court Appointed Special Advocates in the Heart of Texas

Training and supporting quality volunteers who speak out for the best interest of abused and neglected children in court in an effort to find each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.

Civil Rights
7
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
8
Texas Casa Inc

To promote and develop local court-appointed special advocates programs throughout texas.

Civil Rights
9
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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10
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
11
Austin Police Association

Provide education to members and general public on police related issues. negotiate work contracts for police officers with the city of austin.

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12
Travis Association for the Blind

Empower texans who are blind or visually impaired by developing skills, building careers, and fostering independence.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caritas of Austin and the most unlike its peers is The Junior League of Austin Inc. 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

18 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. 18 of the 26 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $58,000 · OtherAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCTHE SAFE ALLIANCE — $45,500 · OtherTHE SAFE ALLIANCEFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUND — $31,079 · OtherFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDCARITAS OF AUSTIN — $20,000 · OtherCARITAS OF AUSTINIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEXAS ADVOCAY PROJECT — $10,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S CANCER ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · OtherAustin Child Guidance Center — $10,000 · OtherASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Other+6 more — $25,018 · Other+6 moreCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $107,000 · Food & NutritionCentral Texas Food Bank IncMEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC — $41,500 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INCFAMILY ELDERCARE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY ELDE…AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY — $18,000 · Human ServicesAUSTIN GROU…DRIVE A SENIOR AUSTIN TEXAS — $5,000 · Human ServicesDRIVE A SEN…AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA — $5,000 · Human ServicesAUSTIN POLI…CASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC — $22,800 · Civil RightsTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC — $17,500 · Community ImprovementCenter for Survivors of Torture — $10,000 · InternationalTexas Advocacy Project — $5,945 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS — $5,000 · Health
Other$234,597Food & Nutrition$148,500Human Services$48,000Civil Rights$22,800Community Improvement$17,500International$10,000Arts & Culture$5,945Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $107,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $58,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE — $45,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC — $41,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC — $22,800 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY ELDERCARE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY — $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Survivors of Torture — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAustin Child Guidance Center — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRIVE A SENIOR AUSTIN TEXAS — $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetPrevent Blindness Texas — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Foun…St David's FoundationThe Moody FoundationTopfer Family Foundat…United Way for Greate…Donald D Hammill Foun…Shield-Ayres Foundati…Carl C Anderson Sr an…Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…Impact Austin Foundat…The Rachael and Ben V…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX25.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Donald D Hammill Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Impact Austin Foundation · The Rachael and Ben Vaughan 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 Theodore P Davis Charitable Tr Xxxxx8005 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    9report 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

    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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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