How much did UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

youth homelessnessensuresheadstartearlymeeting

2020

tenantsatx investmentkippmicahnon-profithealth actiondisabilities

2021

atx investmentreliefsurvivorsincarcerationdisasterfilmattorneys

2022

rfo passthroughinvestment rfoearlymeetingheadstartsociallow income

2023

rfo passthroughserioushealinggapaffectedempowerillness

2024

rfo passthroughactsgapopenpartnerseducation studentsespecially

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $14k
$10k–50k38 grants · $928k
$50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants

ANY BABY CAN INC$195,000
AVANCE-AUSTIN INC$130,000
MAINSPRING SCHOOLS$116,000
WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$115,016
FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC$100,000
SAFE ALLIANCE$90,000
BOOKSPRING$80,000
TODOS JUNTOS LEARNING CENTER$75,000
SAINT LOUISE HOUSE$75,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC$75,000
OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS$70,000
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$70,000
AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$60,000
AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS$60,000
GO AUSTINVAMOS AUSTIN$60,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$20M · 103 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.

103 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103

159

Total granted

$20M

$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+55%

Still filing today

85%

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

AB
ANY BABY CAN INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +33%
CI
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +180%
MS
MAINSPRING SCHOOLS
7× · 2018–2024 · $907k · revenue +35%

Funded once

SF
SRV2THRV FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $170k
TW
TOGETHER WE RISE CORPORATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $120k · revenue +179%
MC
MELJ CENTER
one grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue -79% · 78% of their budget

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.

Leadership Austin

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

Youth Development

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

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

Texans Care for Children Inc

Texas Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to life.

Crime & Legal

Center for Austin Independent Journalism

To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue.

Arts & Culture

Austin Street Center

Austin street center provides emergency shelter and related services to the homeless.

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HousingWorks Austin

To provide research, education and advocacy related to affordable housing.

Housing & Shelter

Texprotects-the Texas Association for

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

Youth Development

Austin Community Law Center

The Austin Community Law Center is a nonprofit law firm. Our mission is to make legal representation radically more affordable, invest in a stronger community, and fight for justice.

Crime & Legal

Austin Economic Development Corporation

The Austin Economic Development Corporation stewards public and private real estate assets to create inclusive community benefits and equitable economic outcomes for Austin.

Community Improvement

Austin Justice Coalition

AJC mission is to improve the quality of life for people of color by helping them be the driving force behind their own liberation.

Human Services

TogetherAustin

To connect Central Texans to resources by reducing barriers expanding access and filling gaps in service.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Capital and the most unlike its peers is Golden Age Home. 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.

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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%7/267

the rest of the field

11%

1,275/11,145

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.

05the grantee network

230 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

216/230

Grantees still filing

185/230

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$12,622,087Education$4,060,750Human Services$2,532,337Housing & Shelter$1,680,758Public Benefit$1,475,267Health$857,000Youth Development$752,500

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

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.

St David's FoundationTX254.1× affinity138 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St David's Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · Topfer Family Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson · United Way of Williamson County · Donald D Hammill Foundation · Georgetown Healthcare System Inc · Ascension Seton

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 organisation UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MELJ CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 742994703 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MELJ CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 78% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way for Greater Austin?

Find your warmest path to United Way for Greater Austin through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

230 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way for Greater Austin?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

230 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way for Greater Austin?

More from the funding graph