· Private foundation
Winkler Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $1,206,799 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,876,799 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $670,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k10 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $290k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $885k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Genetic Literacy Project | $160,000 |
| Breakthrough Institute | $125,000 |
| Waller Creek Convervancy WCC | $120,000 |
| KLRU | $100,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy of Texas | $70,000 |
| Austin Families in Nature | $60,000 |
| ACLU Foundation of Texas | $50,000 |
| Cornell Alliance for Science | $50,000 |
| Texas Freedom Network Education Fund | $50,000 |
| Texas State University | $50,000 |
| University of Texas | $50,000 |
| University of Texas | $35,000 |
| Conservation Fund, The | $25,000 |
| Austin Youth River Watch | $25,000 |
| Mobile Loaves and Fishes | $25,000 |
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 +51% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2019, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k 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 Breakthrough Institute3× · 2017–2019 · $375k · revenue +101%
WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +206%- IOINSTITUTE OF FOOD TECHNOLOGISTS2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- SLSCIENCE LITERACY PROJECTone grant, 2018 · $165k · revenue -57% · 27% of their budget
- SLScience Literacy Projectone grant, 2017 · $120k
- UOUniversity of California, Berkeleyone grant, 2018 · $100k
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.
Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
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.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Empowering Texans to fight pollution through sustained grassroots organizing campaigns that shift corporate and governmental policy.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
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…
Support and strengthen austin public libraries
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…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas and the most unlike its peers is Johnson City Vol Fire Dept. 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 32 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) — 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 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.
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 72 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 The Breakthrough Institute ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE LITERACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF FOOD TECHNOLOGISTS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN YOUTH RIVER WATCH ↗
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 · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America
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.