Texas · Nonprofit
Austin Outside
Austin Outside (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,000 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Austin Outside does
Mission
Austin Outside champions vibrant and thriving outdoor places for all in Greater Austin, and serves as a hub for our member organizations to empower a healthier Austin for all. We envision a Greater Austin where everyone lives within a ten minute walk of a high-quality outdoor park, greenspace or natural area that is connected by a safe and comfortable network of trails, bikeways and sidewalks, and where our biodiverse and ecologically resilient region protects both wildlife and people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Austin Outside (AO) hosted more than 50 committee meetings for its members interested in local government issues concerning parks, open space, trails, sidewalks, bikeways, and concerning public environmental investments. The AO Board issues more than 25 policy statements and support letters concerning these policies. AO also hosted events and promoted it's members events throughout 2025.
$36,698 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,698.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $10k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 Outside’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 Outside leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
83% 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 Outside.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 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
83% of Austin Outside'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. Of the $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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 Outside runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Austin Outside
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Austin Outside: 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 Outside?
- Austin Outside (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,000 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Austin Outside have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $42,000 in grants to Austin Outside, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Austin Outside?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Austin Outside 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 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