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Veritas Foundation Inc
Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $618k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $207k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC CHURCH | $140,000 |
| AUSTIN RECOVERY | $67,000 |
| NEW MEXICO PBS | $45,000 |
| STREET YOUTH MINISTRY | $42,000 |
| THE CHRISTI CENTER | $42,000 |
| BURKE CENTER FOR YOUTH | $35,000 |
| SERVICE DOGS INC | $30,000 |
| FOOD DEPOT | $30,000 |
| ESPERANZA SHELTER FOR BATTERED FAMILIES | $28,000 |
| FOUNDATION COMMUNITY | $27,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF NURSING | $27,000 |
| AUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| USO | $25,000 |
| MAIDEN ROCK AREA COMMUNITY ASSN | $25,000 |
| PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA TEXAS CHAPTER | $23,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $505k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TBTHE BURKE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $37k · revenue +26%
- THTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $31k · revenue +121%
THE FOOD DEPOT2× · 2017–2018 · $31k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- TSTHE SAFE ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +66%
- FCFREEDOM CENTER TEXASone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -9%
- PCPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +82%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
PAWS' purpose is to provide refuge to stray and unwanted animals. PAWS' mission is to prevent cruelty to all animals by promoting humane standards through education and example, to provide care and shelter for homeless animals, aid in the…
Throw a Dog a Bone is an all-breed dog rescue located in Austin, TX. We focus on saving dogs primarily in the rural shelters in South Texas. Many of these shelters have no exposure and very few resources. Our mission is to rescue as many…
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
Adoption and shelter facility for unwanted, abandoned and neglected animals. provide aid to the community who need help with vetting or care of their animals.
To protect and improve the lives of dogs and cats by providing shelter, care, adoption, rescue, spay & neuter programs and community education.
The mission of San Antonio Pets Alive! is to save every adoptable dog and cat in danger of being killed at the City of San Antonio Shelter.
The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.
The purpose of argos, a shelter dog rescue is: to rescue animals from situations that are abusive, endangering, or neglectful. to rescue animals in danger of being euthanized in new mexico shelters/pounds. to provide necessary veterinary…
Texas Ferret Lovers Rescue is a no-kill organization dedicated to providing a safe and healthy environment along with quality care until loving homes can be found. We also provide sanctuary care for ferrets that are not adoptable due to…
Animal rescue and rehabilitation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Center Texas and the most unlike its peers is No Ordinary Love Ministries. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 48 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds AUSTIN RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTI CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds Esperanza Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WILLOW CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE HEART AND SOUL ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds COCKER SPANIEL RESCUE OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds NO ORDINARY LOVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RETTLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM CENTER TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Central Texas ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Ark Foundation · Donald D Hammill Foundation · Carroll Petrie Foundation · Charles Schwab Foundation · St David's Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Allene & Jerome Lapides 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 Veritas Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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