Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN TOGETHER FUND
AUSTIN TOGETHER FUND (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $741,502 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($156,377). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $811k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $742k
- Net assets
- $383k
What Austin Together Fund does
Mission
Austin together enables sustained collaborations that strengthen the nonprofit community to create better outcomes for central texans through our unique grant and community engagement model.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grant making-austin together is a new 501 (c)3 stand-alone entity whose mission is to enable sustained collaboration with proven process, smart funding, and wrap-around support. We do this as an inclusive partner, with confidentiality and an unwavering focus on quality outcomes. Our goal is to support the right partnerships through a thoughtful and supported process. Sustained collaboration covers a variety of long-lasting strategic partnerships that change the business model of two or more nonprofit organizations. We meet with 80+ organizations per year to discuss the possibility of sustained collaboration grant support (see schedule o for grant type explanations). The vast majority of grantees who start with seed or exploration grants continue to move through grant phases and work towards planning and eventually implementation. Most grantees take more than 2 years to move through phases to completion. All expenses supported operations as we moved to a stand-alone entity.
$238,500 spentof which $238,500 as grants41% of program spendingCommunity engagement - austin together delivers programs throughout the year to help central texas nonprofits, businesses and government agencies, network, deepen relationships, and find common ground including a collaboration summit ( a one day event that bring community leaders together around collaboration and solving community challenges), central texas funders network (quarterly events to allow funders to connect and potentially spur the possibilities for increased philanthropic collaboration.), collaborative community meetups (social events for nonprofits, businesses and government agencies to come learn more about sustained collaboration) and collaboration 101 workshops (day-long workshops to educate, inspire, and connect nonprofit leaders with the skills and tools they need to begin to embrace sustained collaboration.)
$170,051 spent$28,025 earned by the program29% of program spendingAustin together advances philanthropy in central texas through two core activities: convening the central texas funders network and leading the growing philanthropy initiative. Through quarterly, non-solicitation ctfn gatherings, austin together connects foundations and other funders to build relationships, share knowledge, and coordinate investment. The growing philanthropy initiative brings together funders, civic leaders, and community partners to form a cross-sector coalition, map philanthropic resources and community needs, develop a strategic regional roadmap, and implement campaigns, pooled funds, donor engagement tools, and shared data systems. Together, these efforts aim to create a more connected, informed, and well-resourced philanthropic ecosystem that aligns generosity with central texass most pressing needs.
$170,051 spent29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $578,602.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $227k to $422k (+86%).
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.
97% of AUSTIN TOGETHER FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Karen Lashelle
Executive director
Board chair
Christopher Kennedy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $25k → $136k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 TOGETHER FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. 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 TOGETHER FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
53% 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 TOGETHER FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 44% — 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
76% of AUSTIN TOGETHER FUND's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $189k 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 TOGETHER FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AUSTIN TOGETHER FUND
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 TOGETHER FUND: 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 TOGETHER FUND?
- AUSTIN TOGETHER FUND (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $741,502 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($156,377). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUSTIN TOGETHER FUND have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $741,502 in grants to AUSTIN TOGETHER FUND, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN TOGETHER FUND?
- AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $156,377 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN TOGETHER FUND 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 13 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