Funding search · EIN 741934031 · Austin, TX

Austin Community Foundation

Name: Austin Community Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

2,187
grants reported: $147.9M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $20,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

austin community education services texas gift health human

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Central Texas nonprofits across all sectors, general operating support
UT Austin colleges, funds, and affiliated university foundations
Austin arts and culture: opera, choral, theatre, public media
Youth education and college access programs in Austin ISD area
Religious congregations, churches, and Jewish community institutions
Parks, trails, and land conservation in and around Austin

Typical grant

Median grant is $20,000, with the middle half between $10,000 and $50,000. The seven-figure checks go to a handful of institutional partners like Whole Foods Market Foundation, UT Austin, and large churches, and those look like pass-through or donor-directed transfers rather than competitive awards. With 2,187 grants to 1,264 recipients over three years, most established Austin nonprofits show up in multiple years, so repeat giving is the norm once a fund is directing money your way.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“GENERAL SUPPORT”
“EDUCATION”
“RELIGION RELATED”
“ENVIRONMENT”

Positioning adjacent work

Recognize this is a community foundation moving donor-advised funds; cultivate the individual donor, not the foundation staff.
Anchor your work to Central Texas outcomes; 1,565 of 2,187 grants went to Texas organizations.
Ask in the $10,000 to $50,000 range for a first gift; that is where most grants sit.
If UT-affiliated, name the specific college or center; they fund units, not just the university.

Worth knowing: This is donor-advised grantmaking, so the pattern reflects hundreds of individual fundholders rather than a single strategy, and nearly every grant is coded simply GENERAL SUPPORT. Geography is overwhelmingly Austin and Central Texas, with out-of-state grants (CA, NY, DC) mostly tracking individual donors' personal ties rather than any programmatic interest.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Whole Foods Market Foundation1 grant · $6.1M
Team Church3 grants · $5.8M
University of Texas at Austin (Ut Austin)3 grants · $4.6M
One Missoula Church1 grant · $4.0M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund3 grants · $3.8M
Texas Health Action1 grant · $3.0M
Austin Ed Fund3 grants · $2.7M
Shalom Austin3 grants · $2.1M
Austin Opera3 grants · $2.0M
Mueller Foundation1 grant · $1.7M

Giving over time

$44.9M

2022

$48.2M

2023

$54.7M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 2,187 grants.

$6.1M
Whole Foods Market Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$4.0M
One Missoula Church · Missoula, MT · 2024
General support
$3.6M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Cincinnati, OH · 2022
Fund transfer
$3.6M
University of Texas at Austin (Ut Austin) · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$3.0M
Texas Health Action · Austin, TX · 2023
Grant distribution
$2.9M
Team Church · Matthews, NC · 2023
Restricted for the one missoula church account
$2.0M
Team Church · Matthews, NC · 2024
Religion related
$1.7M
Mueller Foundation · Austin, TX · 2022
Funding to open stewardship account
$1.1M
Communities in Schools of Central Texas · Austin, TX · 2022
Unrestricted
$1.1M
Austin Ed Fund · Austin, TX · 2022
Charitable donation sponsorship for october event
$1.0M
Austin Opera · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Austin City Art Fund · Austin, TX · 2023
Arts & culture
$1.0M
Clean Cause Foundation · Austin, TX · 2022
General
$1.0M
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution · Woods Hole, MA · 2022
Ocean climate innovation accelerator at woods hole oceanographic institution
$997,564
Raymond James Charitable · St Petersburg, FL · 2022
Unrestricted
$965,901
The Signatry · Overland Park, KS · 2023
Soldiers for faith
$946,227
Austin Ed Fund · Austin, TX · 2023
Education
$920,490
Helping Hand Home for Children · Austin, TX · 2022
Unrestricted
$900,000
Team Church · Matthews, NC · 2022
Restricted for the one missoula church account
$878,395
Shalom Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$808,983
Texas Tribune · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$800,570
University of Texas at Austin (Ut Austin) · Austin, TX · 2022
Directed to the jane dyer lange endowed excellence fund for shakespeare at winedale
$800,000
Mercy Street · Dallas, TX · 2024
General support
$744,500
Austin Travis County Integral Care · Austin, TX · 2022
Charitable donation
$712,291
Notley Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$708,215
Shalom Austin · Austin, TX · 2023
Various needs and programs
$701,000
Central Texas Table of Grace · Round Rock, TX · 2023
Unrestricted
$694,954
Austin Ed Fund · Austin, TX · 2024
Education
$676,125
Shield Ranch Foundation · Austin, TX · 2022
Tres grace foundation abiding campaign donation
$666,532
Schwab Charitable Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Fund transfer
$652,358
Mobile Loaves & Fishes · Austin, TX · 2022
Unrestricted
$651,265
Salvation Army - Austin · Austin, TX · 2023
Unrestricted
$650,000
Texas One Fund Inc (Formerly Horns With Heart Inc) · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$624,932
Charities Aid Foundation (Caf) America · Alexandria, VA · 2024
General support
$600,000
Orphan Grain Train Inc- Houston · Norfolk, NE · 2023
General support
$595,000
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church · Austin, TX · 2023
General fund
$565,500
St Stephen'S Episcopal School · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$546,109
Shalom Austin · Austin, TX · 2022
Security
$541,000
Texas Appleseed · Austin, TX · 2022
Annual gift
$532,380
Breakthrough Central Texas · Austin, TX · 2023
For support of americorps central texas programs/outcomes
$514,650
Shield Ranch Foundation · Austin, TX · 2023
General support
$500,000
Honduras Good Works · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$500,000
Amarillo Area Foundation · Amarillo, TX · 2023
Panhandle gives
$500,000
Alamo Heights High School · San Antonio, TX · 2022
Honorarium
$498,502
Austin Opera · Austin, TX · 2023
Unrestricted
$486,191
Austin Opera · Austin, TX · 2022
Honorarium
$475,000
Houston Jewish Community Foundation · Houston, TX · 2022
For the ben guefen philanthropic fund
$473,250
Huston-Tillotson University · Austin, TX · 2023
Huston-tillotson university equity and scholarship grants
$468,665
Salvation Army - Austin · Austin, TX · 2022
Unrestricted
$467,333
Thinkery · Austin, TX · 2023
Bgcaa & thinkery c.r.e.a.t.e: 2025 - 2028 extension
$462,500
Austin Urban Technology Movement · Austin, TX · 2023
Awareness-to-employment pipeline
$462,114
Boys & Girls Clubs of Austin & Travis County · Austin, TX · 2023
Youth development programming at boys & girls clubs
$444,796
Charities Aid Foundation (Caf) America · Alexandria, VA · 2022
Acf international granting fund
$419,603
Mobile Loaves & Fishes · Austin, TX · 2023
Unrestricted
$416,200
Code2college · Pflugerville, TX · 2023
2023 support
$405,938
Hope House · Liberty Hill, TX · 2024
General support
$401,200
Texas One Fund Inc (Formerly Horns With Heart Inc) · Austin, TX · 2023
Basketball and football support
$400,582
Project Lead the Way · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
Education
$391,975
Shield Ranch Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$363,358
The Trail Conservancy · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$355,253
Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (Haam) · Austin, TX · 2022
Grant
$353,257
Camp of the Hills · Marble Falls, TX · 2024
General support
$349,913
Interfaith Action of Central Texas (Iact) · Austin, TX · 2023
Unrestricted donation for general fund
$347,000
Austin Recovery Network · Austin, TX · 2023
For general operating support
$322,613
Breakthrough Central Texas · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$321,122
Foundation Communities · Austin, TX · 2023
Unrestricted
$319,762
Trail of Lights Foundation · Austin, TX · 2022
Unrestricted fund distribution
$318,050
Conspirare · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$316,497
Black Mamas Atx · Austin, TX · 2022
To carry out the safer childbirth cities grant programming
$314,093
Foundation Communities · Austin, TX · 2022
Foundation communities
$306,648
Any Baby Can · Austin, TX · 2023
Early intervention, therapy, and case management services
$300,000
Adult Rehabilitation Center Command Austin (Arc) · Austin, TX · 2023
To the arc for the education fund
$300,000
Friends of the Truman Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
General
$300,000
St Luke'S Episcopal School of San Antonio · San Antonio, TX · 2022
Honorarium
$280,000
Rip Medical Debt · Rye, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$277,330
Black Mamas Atx · Austin, TX · 2023
For the safer childbirth cities
$275,000
Hope Full Farm · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$270,000
The Junior League of Austin · Austin, TX · 2023
Unrestricted
$267,895
University of Texas at Austin (Ut Austin) · Austin, TX · 2023
Various programs and grants
$261,250
Ut Md Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX · 2024
General support
$260,000
The Hidden Genius Project · Oakland, CA · 2023
Intensive immersion program
$259,680
Rawson-Saunders School · Austin, TX · 2023
Capital campaign and other purposes
$259,577
Charities Aid Foundation (Caf) America · Alexandria, VA · 2023
Various needs and programs
$259,019
Austin Parks Foundation · Austin, TX · 2022
Unrestricted
$253,076
Temple Beth Shalom · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$252,500
Austin Parks Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$252,500
McDonogh School · Owings Mills, MD · 2024
General support
$252,482
Ending Community Homelessness Coalition · Austin, TX · 2022
Employee gift and sailpoint match
$251,000
The Ireland Funds America · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$250,200
Whole Planet Foundation · Austin, TX · 2022
Employee gift and sailpoint match
$250,100
Ending Community Homelessness Coalition · Austin, TX · 2023
General support
$250,050
University of Virginia Engineering Foundation · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
Unrestricted
$250,000
Inheritance of Hope · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$250,000
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church · Austin, TX · 2022
Charitable donation for general support
$248,757
Treefolks · Austin, TX · 2023
To support the continued growth of treefolks' development efforts
$246,367
Communities in Schools of Central Texas · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$243,252
Pease Park Conservancy · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$240,525
Ut Md Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX · 2023
Ongoing support and scholarships
$240,500
The 19th News · Austin, TX · 2022
General operating support
$239,600
The Trail Conservancy · Austin, TX · 2022
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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.