· Private foundation
Waterproof Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC-CHAPEL HILL | $200,000 |
| UATX | $100,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION | $15,005 |
| TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MD ANDERSON | $10,000 |
| MIRACLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $10,000 |
| AMERICA GIVES INC | $5,000 |
| WONDERS & WORRIES | $5,000 |
| AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PEASE PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +62% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- UUATX3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +401%
- SAST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +91%
- LELEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA6× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -4%
- CICICERO INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $10k
- RARED ARENA INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To provide broader recognition of the state's top achievers in medicine, engineering and science, and to build a stronger identity for texas as an important destination and center of achievement in these fields.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 45 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 UATX ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FEED THE HUNGRY SAN MIGUEL INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds Wonders & Worries Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN EXPLORE INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Pease Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas Book Festival ↗
- Who funds Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds RED ARENA INC ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD LAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
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 · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shepherd 5 Points Family Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Moody Foundation · Better Business Bureau · United Way Worldwide · Central Texas Community Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 Waterproof 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.