Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE
AUSTIN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,246,298 to it, the largest being Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education ($993,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $947k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $664k
What Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture does
Mission
To develop, facilitate and disseminate research and education on questions of family, social structures, sexuality and human relationships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research on the family and on the human person at the service of future leaders and scholars: seminars, conferences, fellowships, and reading groups for students and young professionals.
$427,234 spent74% of program spendingResearch on the family, marriage, and on the human person: dissemination and formation of a broader public via talks and conferences at the national and international level.
$141,313 spent25% of program spendingResearch and education on the family, current culture, and the human person: dissemination via podcast, social media, and digital material.
$5,592 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $574,139.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+17%).
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: 2021 13% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Marianna Orlandi
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $367k → $642k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE’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 INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 89% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 51% · 2022 75% · 2023 53% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of AUSTIN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AUSTIN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $399k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like AUSTIN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE: 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 INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE?
- AUSTIN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,246,298 to it, the largest being Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education ($993,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUSTIN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,246,298 in grants to AUSTIN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE?
- Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education is the largest funder on record, with $993,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE 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.
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 12 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