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Veritas Foundation Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$845k
Granted FY2018
32
Grants FY2018
6
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Religion$161kHuman Services$143kHealth$127kAnimals$111kYouth Development$82kArts & Culture$65kPhilanthropy$49kFood & Nutrition$38kOther$0
02FY2018 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $618k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $207k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC CHURCH$140,000
AUSTIN RECOVERY$67,000
NEW MEXICO PBS$45,000
THE CHRISTI CENTER$42,000
STREET YOUTH MINISTRY$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
USO$25,000
AUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE$25,000
MAIDEN ROCK AREA COMMUNITY ASSN$25,000
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA TEXAS CHAPTER$23,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $2k → 10%FOOD DEPOT: $30k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $1k → 12%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.
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$332k · 11 repeat orgs$537k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +49% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
16

Total granted

$332k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+49%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $505k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
AnimalsHuman ServicesReligionHealthInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • TB
    THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $37k · revenue +26%
  • TH
    TEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $31k · revenue +121%
  • THE FOOD DEPOT
    2× · 2017–2018 · $31k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SAFE ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +66%
  • FC
    FREEDOM CENTER TEXAS
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -9%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of Central Texasgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +49%
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
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc

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,…

Animals
2
Paws of Austin Protection of Animal Welfare Services

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…

Animals
3
Throw a Dog a Bone Dog Rescue

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…

Animals
4
Central Texas Spca

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…

Animals
5
Texas Round Up Animal Alliance Inc

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.

Animals
6
Humane Society of San Antonio (Audit)

To protect and improve the lives of dogs and cats by providing shelter, care, adoption, rescue, spay & neuter programs and community education.

Animals
7
San Antonio Pets Alive Inc

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.

Animals
8
Spca of Texas

The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.

Animals
9
Argos a Shelter Dog Rescue

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…

Animals
10
The Texas Ferret Lovers Rescue

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…

Animals
11
Texas Rescue Inc
Animals
12
Central Texas Animal Sanctuary

Animal rescue and rehabilitation

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Center Texas; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $140,000 · OtherST MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC CHURCHNEW MEXICO PBS: $45,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO PBSSTREET YOUTH MINISTRY: $43,000 · OtherSTREET YOUTH MINISTRYCHRISTI CENTER: $42,000 · OtherCHRISTI CENTERTHE BURKE FOUNDATION INC: $36,500 · OtherTHE BURKE FOUNDATION INCTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC: $31,000 · OtherEsperanza Shelter Inc: $29,000 · OtherFOUNDATION COMMUNITY: $28,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF NURSING: $27,000 · OtherUSO: $25,000 · OtherMAIDEN ROCK AREA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · OtherPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA TEXAS CHAPTER: $23,000 · Other+21 more: $158,000 · Other+21 moreAUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE: $25,000 · AnimalsAUSTIN DOG …SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $18,500 · AnimalsSANTA FE AN…ESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $18,000 · AnimalsESPANOLA VA…THE HEART AND SOUL ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $13,500 · AnimalsTHE HEART A…COCKER SPANIEL RESCUE OF AUSTIN: $10,000 · AnimalsCOCKER SPAN…SANTA FE RAPTOR CENTER: $5,000 · AnimalsSANTA FE RA…AUSTIN RECOVERY INC: $69,000 · HealthAUSTIN RE…PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $3,000 · HealthTHE FOOD DEPOT: $31,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM CENTER TEXAS: $5,000 · Human ServicesAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $2,000 · Human ServicesSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,800 · PhilanthropyNO ORDINARY LOVE MINISTRIES: $10,000 · InternationalRETTLAND FOUNDATION: $5,000 · ReligionMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $1,000 · Religion
Other$652,500Animals$90,000Health$72,000Human Services$38,000Philanthropy$20,800International$10,000Religion$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAUSTIN RECOVERY INC: $69,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHRISTI CENTER: $42,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTHE BURKE FOUNDATION INC: $36,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC: $31,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEsperanza Shelter Inc: $29,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $20,500 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $18,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWILLOW CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE HEART AND SOUL ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $13,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCOCKER SPANIEL RESCUE OF AUSTIN: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetNO ORDINARY LOVE MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetRETTLAND FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSANTA FE RAPTOR CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM CENTER TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHEN ANGELS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC: $1,000 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…Santa Fe Community Fo…The Ark FoundationDonald D Hammill Foun…Carroll Petrie Founda…Charles Schwab Founda…St David's FoundationBattelle Memorial Ins…Carl C Anderson Sr an…The Moody FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…The Allene & Jerome L…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Veritas Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Veritas Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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