· Private foundation
Warren Skaaren Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rochester Community & Technical College | $35,000 |
| Austin Pets Alive | $20,000 |
| Austin Film Society | $20,000 |
| Rise Child Development Center | $15,000 |
| Austin Classical Guitar | $10,000 |
| Chinati Foundation | $10,000 |
| Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc | $10,000 |
| Community in Schools of Central Texas | $10,000 |
| Wonders & Worries | $7,500 |
| UT Austin | $6,000 |
| Owl Research Institute Inc | $5,000 |
| Texas 4000 for Cancer | $4,000 |
| UT Austin | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Warren Skaaren Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 62% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- RCROCHESTER COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEG2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +24%
- TCTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +116%
- FSFilm Society of Austin Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- EYE4 YOUTH INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +56%
Central Texas Food Bank Incone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -28%- HOHousing Opportunities for Musicians and Entertainersgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +252%
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 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.…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
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…
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.
To support texas land trusts and promote land conservation efforts in texas. host texas land conservation conference to educate conservation related professionals and volunteers from across the state.
Farm&City is an independent 501c3 think & do tank dedicated to high quality urban & rural human habitat in Texas in perpetuity. We improve public policies to improve millions of Texans lives in ways that preserve and enhance Texas land,…
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…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Texans 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…
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
Fish and wildlife conservation and outreach including public awareness. Fifteen public relations campaign on social media with over 7.5 million impressions. Twenty plus speaking engagements to a variety of conservation organizations…
Texas 2036 identifies and advances data-driven policies that will improve lives and expand opportunities for all Texans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation At Shield Ranch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 12. 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 12% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 31 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 ROCHESTER COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEG ↗
- Who funds THE CHINATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Film Society of Austin Inc ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Wonders & Worries Inc ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds E4 YOUTH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH ↗
- Who funds RISE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Conservation Lands Foundation ↗
- Who funds OWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FARMSHARE AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds TEXAS 4000 FOR CANCER ↗
- Who funds Housing Opportunities for Musicians and Entertainers ↗
- Who funds JUST COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR CIRCLE OF CARE ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN SPEECH LABS INC ↗
- Who funds Pease Park Conservancy ↗
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 · St David's Foundation · Better Business Bureau · United Way for Greater Austin · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc · The Applied Materials Foundation · Shell USA Company 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 Warren Skaaren Charitable Trust 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.