Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE
AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,988 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($84,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $199k
- Net assets
- $514k
What Austin Creative Reuse does
Mission
Fostering conservation and reuse through creativity, education, and community building.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Austin Creative Reuse collects, distributes, and sells reusable materials donated from industry and individuals in order to build awareness and facilitate conscious consumption, sustainability, and art.
$1,071,343 spent$1,122,865 earned by the program100% of program spendingAustin Creative Reuse hosts hands-on workshops and creates instructional kits to teach and inspire the community to think about resources with conservation and reuse in mind.
$72,892 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,071,343.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $301k to $533k (+77%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 22% · 2022 13% · 2023 0% · 2024 11% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $250 → $68k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 96% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
99% of AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE?
- AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,988 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($84,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $198,988 in grants to AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE?
- GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $84,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN CREATIVE REUSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing