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Impact Austin Foundation

Austin, TX · EIN 56-2367666. Reported 26 grants totalling $1,097,000 to 26 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

26organizations funded
$23,350median reported grant
$1,097,000granted, 2021-2023
0%of grantees funded again the next year
9%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Impact Austin Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $23,350. Half of what it reported fell between $16,400 and $75,400; the smallest was $8,400 and the largest $96,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
12 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
11 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Lirios PediatricsAustin, TX$96,500112023
Con Mi MadreAustin, TX$90,500112021
Texas Advocacy Project IncAustin, TX$90,500112021
Austin Explore IncAustin, TX$75,500112021
Dreams Will Come True FoundationSunnyvale, CA$75,500112021
Avance IncSan Antonio, TX$75,400112022
Other Ones Foundation IncAustin, TX$75,400112022
Austin Creative ReuseAustin, TX$65,900112022
The Magdalen HouseDallas, TX$65,900112022
Friends of the Children - AustinAustin, TX$63,400112023
Keep Austin FedAustin, TX$63,400112023
Austin Groups for the ElderlyAustin, TX$24,100112023
Westcave Outdoor Discovery CenterRound Mtn, TX$24,100112023
Asian American Resource Center IncAustin, TX$22,600112021
Jolt InitiativeAustin, TX$22,600112021
GirlstartAustin, TX$18,800112022
Hispanic Alliance for the Performing ArtsAustin, TX$18,800112021
Literacy Coalition of Central TexasAustin, TX$18,800112022
Yellow Bike ProjectAustin, TX$18,800112021
Austin Youth & Community Farm IncAustin, TX$16,400112022
Seedling FoundationAustin, TX$16,400112022
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Travis CountyAustin, TX$15,800112023
LatinitasAustin, TX$15,800112023
Tfi Family Services IncEmporia, KS$9,200112021
Foster Angels of Central Texas FoundationAustin, TX$8,500112023
Wonders & Worries IncAustin, TX$8,400112022

0 of 26 (0%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 26 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
6 orgs
Youth Development
3 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Recreation & Sports
2 orgs
Health Care
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20219$424,000$22,600
20229$361,400$18,800
20238$311,600$24,100

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

92% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Texas
$1.0M
California
$76K
Kansas
$9K

Down to the city

Austin, TX
$847K
Sunnyvale, CA
$76K
San Antonio, TX
$75K
Dallas, TX
$66K
Round Mtn, TX
$24K
Emporia, KS
$9K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

American Online Giving Foundation Inc18 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipientsAustin Community Foundation Inc15 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsSt David's Foundation9 shared recipientsShield-Ayres Foundation9 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $23,350 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Impact Austin Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 8 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 28148, Austin, TX, 78755.

EIN 56-2367666 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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