Texas · Nonprofit
Raising Austin Inc
Raising Austin Inc (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,038 to it, the largest being SHIELD-AYRES FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $812k
What Raising Austin Inc does
Mission
Exempt purpose is to increase the knowledge base and skills of early childhood practitioners serving vulnerable children and families by providing high quality, evidence-based professional development that promotes school readiness and lifelong success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
City of Austin, Texas -Texas Child Care Leadership Academy- The Texas Child Care Leadership Academy is part of the City of Austins Workforce Development Program. The program targets childcare owners, directors, and emerging leaders living within Travis County and who are engaged in subsidy agreement with their local workforce board- Capital Area Workforce Board. The goal is to equip 60 childcare administrators with knowledge and skills to create supportive work environments and improve staff retention by: 1) improving the leadership and management skills of program owners and directors and, 2) fostering a culture of continuous quality improvement that leads to engaged learning for staff, children, and families. Together4Children uses a hybrid learning model that incorporates live in-person training and live virtual Professional Learning Communities to deliver a comprehensive 10- month (60-hour) training using the evidence-based Taking Charge of Change.
$155,148 spent$458,603 earned by the program16% of program spendingVOICES OF EMPOWERMENT LEADERSHIP SYMPOSIUM AND CLOSING CEREMONY Celebration of the graduation of Cohorts 1 partipants in the Child Care Staff Retention Strategies Program.
$85,702 spent$85,634 earned by the program9% of program spendingTHE TEXAS CHILD CARE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is funded through the Texas Workforce Commmissions(TWC) Child Care Staff Retention Strategies program. The goal of Together 4 Childrens(T4C)Child Care Staff Retention Strategies program is to create supportive work environments and improve staff retention by 1) improving the leadership and management skills of program owners and directors and, 2) fostering a culture of continuous quality improvement that leads to engaged learning for staff, children, and families. T4C is using a blended learning model that incorporates live face-to-face training and live virtual Professional Learning Communities to deliver a comprehensive 7- month (65-hour) training using the evidence-based Taking Charge of Change(TCC). Developed 20 years ago at the McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership, TCC is a well-respected model for leadership development of childcare administrators.
$733,996 spent$729,929 earned by the program75% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $974,846.
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 2024 to 2025, from $612k to $859k (+40%).
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: 2018 74% · 2019 60% · 2021 11% · 2023 26% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of Raising Austin Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
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
Cindy Rodriguez
Executive Director
Board chair
Joy Miller
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $23.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Raising Austin Inc’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
Raising Austin Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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 Raising Austin Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Raising Austin Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Raising Austin Inc
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
91% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Raising Austin Inc: 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 Raising Austin Inc?
- Raising Austin Inc (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,038 to it, the largest being SHIELD-AYRES FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Raising Austin Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,038 in grants to Raising Austin Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Raising Austin Inc?
- SHIELD-AYRES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Raising Austin Inc 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