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Tingari Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$600k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.6MInternational$1.1MArts & Culture$415kHealth$331kEducation$198kCommunity Improvement$100kFood & Nutrition$65kHousing & Shelter$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $573k
$73,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE - THE QUIDDITY FUND$150,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE - LUCKLESS PHILANTHROPIES$150,000
CONNECTHER$100,000
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA - WESTERMAN JILYA INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEA$73,000
DIVINC$50,000
CODE2COLLEGE$50,000
AUSTIN TOGETHER$27,000
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 (FY17–20, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%EMMA'S TORCH: $25k → 20%AUSTIN DIAPER BANK: $5k → 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $15k → 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $5k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
OH
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 12 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
34

Total granted

$1.6M
$901k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+39%

Still filing today

83%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $273k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • T1
    THE 19TH NEWS
    2× · 2019–2021 · $200k · revenue +301%
  • Health Alliance for Austin Musicians
    2× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +184%
  • TR
    THE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • GP
    Global Press Institute
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -74%
  • CA
    CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA - YGAP AUSTRALIA
    one grant, 2023 · $103k
  • GA
    Go AustinVamos Austin
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -30%

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
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
2
Leadership Austin

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

Youth Development
3
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
4
Center for Austin Independent Journalism

To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…

Arts & Culture
5
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
6
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.

—
7
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
8
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
9
Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

—
10
Austin Free-Net

To provide technology training and access to the community, fostering skills that enable people to succeed in the digital age.

Education
11
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Global Press Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …United Way AffiliatesLocal Food System Organizat…Immigrant Worker SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%5%<5yr12%16%5–10yr21%34%10–20yr14%24%20–35yr16%16%35–55yr20%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%3%<5yr12%12%5–10yr21%12%10–20yr14%27%20–35yr16%46%35–55yr20%0%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,262

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 54 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $1,558,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT F…+4 more — $142,190 · Community Improvement+4 moreFIDELITY CHARITABLE - LUCKLESS PHILANTHROPIES — $488,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - LUCKLESS PHILAN…FIDELITY CHARITABLE - THE QUIDDITY FUND — $488,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - THE QUIDDITY FU…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA - YGAP AUSTRALIA — $103,000 · OtherCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA - YG…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA - CHILDREN'S GROUND AUSTRALIA — $85,000 · OtherBUILDING A GLOBAL COMMUNITY — $77,000 · OtherCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA - WESTERMAN JILYA INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEA — $73,000 · OtherTHE SIMS FOUNDATION INC — $66,000 · Other+22 more — $275,109 · Other+22 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $625,448 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUND…CONNECTHER — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCONNECTHERIMPACTASSETSINC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINCENDOMETRIOSIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyENDOMETRIOSIS FOUND…+2 more — $7,500 · PhilanthropyTHE 19TH NEWS — $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE 19TH …Global Press Institute — $150,000 · Arts & CultureGlobal Pr…TORCH LITERARY ARTS — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTORCH LIT…+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureGo AustinVamos Austin — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentCODE2COLLEGE — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentOut Youth Inc — $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentINSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE — $110,000 · EducationCon Mi MADRE — $10,000 · EducationTHE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Human ServicesEMMA'S TORCH LTD — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE — $20,000 · Human ServicesAUSTIN DIAPER BANK — $5,000 · Human Services
Community Improvement$1,700,190Other$1,655,109Philanthropy$882,948Arts & Culture$405,000Youth Development$192,000Education$120,000Human Services$85,000

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $1,558,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $625,448 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS — $200,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGlobal Press Institute — $150,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE — $110,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGo AustinVamos Austin — $100,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCONNECTHER — $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING A GLOBAL COMMUNITY — $77,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetTHE SIMS FOUNDATION INC — $66,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetAUSTIN TOGETHER FUND — $50,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetCODE2COLLEGE — $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetENDOMETRIOSIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTORCH LITERARY ARTS — $50,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetDIVINC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUS NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR UN WOMEN — $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS — $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHealth Alliance for Austin Musicians — $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGuadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEMMA'S TORCH LTD — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTreeFolks Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE — $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetOMID FOUNDATION USA — $17,562 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN — $17,190 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetOut Youth Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTHWORKS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCon Mi MADRE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEcoRise Youth Innovations — $7,667 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAUSTIN DIAPER BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCreative Action — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 FoundationBetter Business BureauThe Cynthia & George …The Webber Family Fou…Shield-Ayres Foundati…The Applied Materials…United Way for Greate…The Moody FoundationLAiglon FundSilicon Valley Commun…Rwh Foundation
Austin Community Foundation IncTX46.8× affinity22 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 · Better Business Bureau · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · The Moody Foundation · LAiglon Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Rwh 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 Tingari 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    12report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tingari Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tingari 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 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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