Texas · Nonprofit
Austin Empty Bowl Project
Austin Empty Bowl Project (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,586 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($5,290). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $161k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Austin Empty Bowl Project does
Mission
Fight hunger and poor nutrition in central texas by providing financial support to charitable organizations working to end hunger and food insecuity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Donee's Name: CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK, 6500 METROPOLIS DRIVE, AUSTIN, TX 78744 Purpose of Grant: The Central Texas Food Bank is a 501(c)(3) organization that prepares and distributes food to people in need in the central Texas area. Relationship of Donee: NONE
$7,587 spentof which $106,000 as grants70% of program spendingDonee's Name: MEALS ON WHEELS CENTRAL TEXAS, 5227 EAST 5TH STREET, AUSTIN, TX 78702 Purpose of Grant: Meals on Wheels of Central Texas is a 501(c)(3) organization that prepares and delivers food to people in need in the central Texas area. Relationship of Donee: NONE
$3,221 spentof which $45,000 as grants30% of program spendingAustin Empty Bowl Project is an annual event held before Thanksgiving. Crafts people donate bowls and guests are invited to a simple meal of soup and bread. Donations are accepted and guests are asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. Funds raised by the event go to benefit the Central Texas Food Bank and Meals On Wheels Central Texas (see accomplishments noted in lines 28 and 29)
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,808.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $533 to $6k (+1011%).
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.
100% of Austin Empty Bowl Project’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $30 → $61.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Empty Bowl Project’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 Empty Bowl Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Empty Bowl Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Austin Empty Bowl Project's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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 Empty Bowl Project's revenue grew 55% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Austin Empty Bowl Project
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Austin Empty Bowl Project?
- Austin Empty Bowl Project (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,586 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($5,290). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Austin Empty Bowl Project have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,586 in grants to Austin Empty Bowl Project, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Austin Empty Bowl Project?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,290 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Austin Empty Bowl Project 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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