Texas · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN (Texas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,956,836 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,645,185). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Friends of the Children - Austin does
Mission
Friends of the Children - Austin is a texas based nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years,no matter what. 83% of our youth receive a high school diploma or ged,98% of our youth wait to become parents until after their teens, 93% ofour youth remain free from juvenile justice system involvement, and 92% of our youth go on to enroll in post-secondary education, serve our country or enter the workforce.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Youth in the friends program face considerable challenges, including placement in the foster care system, under-resourced neighborhood schools, homelessness, hunger, and challenges in access to and quality of health care. Despite these barriers, program youth enter adulthood with strong foundations for continuing achievement: 92% go on to enroll in post-secondary education, serve our country or enter the workforce, 83% graduate high school or earn a ged, 93% avoid juvenile justice system involvement, and 98% wait to parent until after their teen years.
$4,369,960 spentof which $735,208 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,369,960.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $3.9M to $6.5M (+67%).
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 12% · 2021 9% · 2022 6% · 2023 3% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $55k → $1.3M.
19 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friends of the Children). These are real filings, and they are not money FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN raised.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 24% · 2019 23% · 2020 52% · 2021 47% · 2022 65% · 2023 31% — growing more concentrated.
“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
30% of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
87% of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN'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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN is better cushioned than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN?
- FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN (Texas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,956,836 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,645,185). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $8,956,836 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,645,185 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 46 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