The Junior League of Austin Inc
The Junior League of Austin Inc is an Austin, Texas, public charity that advances women’s leadership and supports community work through volunteer action, collaboration, and training. Its community work includes volunteer and financial support for area nonprofit agencies and its own programs.
The Junior League of Austin Inc at a glance
In short: The Junior League of Austin Inc gave $111K across 13 grants in 2025 (avg $9K), mostly in Texas. 8% of 2025 grantees were new. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- Annual giving (2025)
- $111,000
- -25.3% vs 2024
- Grants made (2025)
- 13
- -7.1% vs 2024
- Average grant
- $8,538
- -19.6% vs 2024
- Median grant
- $9,000
- Total assets
- $28,409,569
- +0.3% vs 2024
- New grantees (estimate)
- 8% first-time grantees (1 of 13, 2025; small sample)
- Primary geography
- Texas (100% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026. New grantees are estimated by matching recipient names across years (methodology).
How to apply to The Junior League of Austin Inc
- How to Apply
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The website states that applications for the 2027–28 League year are closed.
- Contact
Mailing address: 5330 Bluffstone Lane, Austin, TX 78759
Phone: (512) 467-8982
Website: https://jlaustin.org
Application details from Grantable's research on the foundation's public materials; confirm on its website before applying.
Open Grants
1 open opportunity from The Junior League of Austin Inc
Who The Junior League of Austin Inc funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 10 recipients in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was Austin Humane Society ($10K). Together the top 10 received $91K.
Grant Size Distribution
74 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 74 grants of 74 (100%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
All grant dollars reported for filing year 2025 went to recipients in Texas. The listed 2025 grant recipients are in Austin or Georgetown, Texas. The organization describes its community work as serving the Austin and Central Texas areas.
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 13 itemized grants.
States
Cities
Is The Junior League of Austin Inc open to new grantees?
8%
first-time grantees, 2025
In 2025, 1 of 13 grantees (8%) were first-time recipients. With only 13 grantees, that is a small sample: one grantee more or less moves the share by about 8 points. First grants averaged $7K; repeat grants $9K. How we count
Medians: $7K first-time, $9K repeat.
Estimate from itemized grant lists in IRS Form 990 filings (2019–2025). Recipient names are matched across years, so a renamed or misspelled grantee can look new; grants to individuals are left out. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $111K (2025) to $172K (2020). In 2025 it made 13 grants totaling $111K.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Austin Humane Society Austin, TX | To offer comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them | $10,000 |
| Women's Storybook Project Austin, TX | To connect children with their incarcerated moms through the joy of literature | $10,000 |
| Zach Scott Theatre Center Austin, TX | To create theater, education, and training programs that ignite connection between artists, audiences, students, and the community | $10,000 |
| Austin Creative Reuse Austin, TX | To foster conservation and reuse through creativity, education and community building | $9,000 |
| Austin Zoo Austin, TX | To assist animals in need through rescue, conservation and education | $9,000 |
| Ballet Austin Austin, TX | To involve and strengthen the community through the creation and experience of dance and the encouragement of health and well-being | $9,000 |
| Dress for Success Austin, TX | To empower women+ to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire, and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life | $9,000 |
| Mother's Milk Bank Austin, TX | To save babies' lives by providing prescribed, pasteurized donor human milk | $9,000 |
| Sustainable Food Center Inc Austin, TX | To cultivate a just and regenerative food system so that people and the environment can thrive | $9,000 |
| Foster Angels of Central Texas Austin, TX | To improve the lives of children in foster care ensuring each child has their basic needs met and providing life- enhancing, life-enriching opportunities whenever possible | $7,000 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $28,409,569 | $2,968,879 | $2,914,277 | $111,000 | 13 | $127,825 |
| 2024 | $28,324,649 | $2,767,959 | $2,735,826 | $148,620 | 14 | $103,704 |
| 2023 | $28,147,046 | $2,710,192 | $2,723,279 | $153,670 | 16 | $108,321 |
| 2022 | $28,337,352 | $3,104,787 | $2,457,478 | $153,670 | 16 | $233,596 |
| 2021 | $28,532,995 | $1,924,885 | $2,200,348 | $125,500 | 15 | $173,087 |
| 2020 | $27,830,354 | $2,180,254 | $2,693,008 | $172,400 | 16 | $186,916 |
| 2019 | $24,724,213 | $3,006,395 | $1,928,132 | $164,137 | 17 | $225,421 |
Research compiled by Grantable AI from public sources. Last updated September 2026.
Mission & Focus Areas
The organization’s mission is to advance women’s leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training. Its stated vision is to strengthen the community through creative solutions to current and future challenges.
Its website describes volunteer initiatives across education, health and well-being, safety and crisis intervention, the arts, and the environment. Its programs include Coats for Kids and Food In Tummies. In its 2024 filing, the organization reported that Food In Tummies provided approximately 36,000 weekend food bags to Del Valle ISD students during the 2024–2025 school year.
Among the organizations it supported in 2025, Austin Creative Reuse describes its mission as fostering conservation and reuse through creativity, education, and community building. Ballet Austin describes its mission as involving and strengthening the community through dance and encouraging health and well-being. Sustainable Food Center describes its mission as transforming the food system to nourish health, land, and livelihood.
Grantmaking
The organization reported 13 grants totaling $111,000 in filing year 2025. Grants ranged from $6,000 to $10,000, with a median of $9,000. Examples include $10,000 each to Austin Humane Society, Women’s Storybook Project, and Zach Scott Theatre Center, and $9,000 each to Austin Creative Reuse, Ballet Austin, and Sustainable Food Center.
The organization’s filing says community partner grants are tied directly to League volunteers’ work on a project. After a contract is signed, the nonprofit partner provides a certificate of insurance listing the Junior League of Austin as certificate holder; funds are released once volunteers begin the placement. Partners must submit mid-year and end-of-year reports describing how funds were used. The filing also identifies emergency and disaster relief, sponsorship, miscellaneous project, and Con Mi MADRE scholarship funds among other opportunities.
Leadership & Key People
Leadership team and compensation from IRS filings
Officers and directors listed on the 2025 filing include Courtney Dickey, President; Amy Miller, President-Elect; Ashley Bias, Fund Development VP; Courtney DeBower, Membership Development VP; Danielle Bornowski, Communications VP; Danielle Trevino and Jamie Zerwas Mills, Members-at-Large; Erica Shelgren, Operations VP; Jennifer Williams, Treasurer; and Kristen Reynolds, Community VP.
The Junior League of Austin Inc is led by Lyndsey Crawford, Sustaining President since 2025 (on filings since 2020); none of the 13 officers listed in 2025 report compensation.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Lyndsey Crawford
Sustaining President
President-Elect → President, 2021
President → Sustaining President, 2025
On filings since 2020
30 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Courtney Dickey
President
Member-At-Large → President-Elect, 2024
President-Elect → President, 2025
On filings since 2021
30 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Kristen Reynolds
Community Vice President
Technology Chair → Community Vice President, 2025
On filings since 2020
30 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Ashley Bias
Fund Development Vice President
Member-At-Large → Fund Development Vice President, 2025
On filings since 2022
30 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Courtney Debower
Membership Development Vice President
Member-At-Large → Membership Development Vice President, 2025
On filings since 2022
30 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Amy Miller
President-Elect
Administrative Vice President → President-Elect, 2025
On filings since 2023
30 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Erica Shelgren
Operations Vice President
Technology Chair → Operations Vice President, 2025
On filings since 2024
30 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Danielle Bornowski
Communications Vice President
New on the 2025 filing
30 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Danielle Trevino
Member-At-Large
New on the 2025 filing
30 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jamie Zerwas Mills
Member-At-Large
New on the 2025 filing
30 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jennifer Williams
Treasurer
New on the 2025 filing
30 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Sara Hogan
Recording Secretary
New on the 2025 filing
30 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Tillery Castillo
Administrative Vice President
New on the 2025 filing
30 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (56)
- Former: Julia Null (2019–2024) — Membership Development Council Vice President
- Former: Haley Gardiner (2020–2024) — President
- Former: Carolyn Ragsdale (2024) — Fund Development Vice President
- Former: Courtney Spencer (2024) — Recording Secretary
- Former: Julie Hall (2024) — Sustaining President
- Former: Missy Sharpe (2024) — Communications Council Vice President
- Former: Rami Legha (2024) — Treasurer
- Former: Rekha Roarty (2024) — Member-At-Large
- Former: Sarah Covey (2024) — Member-At-Large
- Former: Shelley Davis (2024) — Community Vice President
- Former: Rachel Pry (2019–2023) — Community Vice President
- Former: Lyndsay Kerr (2021–2023) — Member-At-Large
- Former: Shannon Creekmur (2021–2023) — President
- Former: Tiffany Cross (2022–2023) — Administrative Vice President
- Former: Andrea Pratt (2023) — Treasurer
- Former: Jolie Cypert (2023) — Nominating Chair
- Former: Lina Palomares (2023) — Secretary
- Former: Rachel Plymire (2023) — Member-At-Large
- Former: Sarah Gutierrez (2023) — Member Development Vice President
- Former: Sarah Valenzuela (2023) — Sustaining President
- Former: Stephanie Bazan (2023) — Member-At-Large
- Former: Stephanie McArthur (2023) — Communications Vice President
- Former: Kimberly Batrice (2021–2022) — Fund Development Vice President
- Former: Meagan Longley (2021–2022) — Secretary
- Former: Tania Leskovar-Owens (2021–2022) — President
- Former: Alisa Cohen Victoria (2022) — Community Vice President
- Former: Bonnie Allison (2022) — Treasurer
- Former: Carrie Dyer (2022) — Member-At-Large
- Former: Lauren Price (2022) — Sustaining President
- Former: Natalie Sheridan (2022) — Administrative Vice President
- Former: Pim Mayo (2022) — Fund Development Vice President
- Former: Rachel Zander (2019–2021) — Community Vice President
- Former: Abby Raines (2021) — Treasurer
- Former: Kelly Breeden (2021) — Sustaining President
- Former: Laura Cesaro (2021) — Administrative Vice President
- Former: Liz Neff (2021) — Recording Secretary
- Former: Rise Candelaria (2021) — Communications Vice President
- Former: Carrie Semple (2019–2020) — President
- Former: Casie Wenmohs (2020) — Sustaining President
- Former: Claudia Legarreta (2020) — Administrative Vice President
- Former: Deanna Manford-Schobey (2020) — Member-At-Large
- Former: Dionne Barner (2020) — Communications Vice President
- Former: Laura Lee Diagle (2020) — Recording Secretary
- Former: Michelle Lupton (2020) — Treasurer
- Former: Nicole Elliott (2020) — Membership Development Vice President
- Former: Stefanie Bertram (2020) — Fund Development Vice President
- Former: Yvette Ruiz Krumhansl (2020) — Member-At-Large
- Former: Amy Hurt (2019) — President
- Former: Araminta Sellers (2019) — Membership Development Council Vice President
- Former: Courtney Clark (2019) — Member-At-Large
- Former: Earind Carter (2019) — Member-At-Large
- Former: Genny Hill (2019) — Treasurer
- Former: Keri Bellacosa Walling (2019) — Fund Development Vice President
- Former: Laura Robinson (2019) — Community Vice President
- Former: Melissa Morrow (2019) — Sustaining President
- Former: Sharon Morgan (2019) — Communications Council Vice President
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Frequently asked questions about The Junior League of Austin Inc
How much does The Junior League of Austin Inc give each year?
The Junior League of Austin Inc gave $111K across 13 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $149K across 14 grants.
What is The Junior League of Austin Inc's typical grant size?
The Junior League of Austin Inc's median grant in 2025 was $9,000, and its average grant was $8,538, across 13 grants on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Organizations receiving their first grant from The Junior League of Austin Inc that year got $7K on average.
Where does The Junior League of Austin Inc give grants?
The Junior League of Austin Inc gives mostly in Texas: 100% of the grant dollars itemized on its 2025 IRS Form 990 went to recipients there. The most frequent recipient cities were Austin, TX (12 grants).
Does The Junior League of Austin Inc give general operating support?
Not in 2025: none of the 13 grants with a stated purpose on The Junior League of Austin Inc's 2025 IRS Form 990 were described as general or operating support.
Who are The Junior League of Austin Inc's largest grantees?
The Junior League of Austin Inc's largest 2025 grantees include Austin Humane Society ($10,000), Women's Storybook Project ($10,000) and Zach Scott Theatre Center ($10,000), according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. Together they received 27% of its itemized 2025 grant dollars.
How large is The Junior League of Austin Inc?
The Junior League of Austin Inc reported $28.4M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $3.0M.
What does The Junior League of Austin Inc fund?
The organization’s mission is to advance women’s leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training. Its stated vision is to strengthen the community through creative solutions to current and future challenges. See mission & focus areas ↑
How do I apply for a grant from The Junior League of Austin Inc?
The website states that applications for the 2027–28 League year are closed. Eligibility and process details are in the grantmaking section of this profile. See how to apply ↑
What is The Junior League of Austin Inc's EIN?
The Junior League of Austin Inc's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 74-1168918. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings. Research dossier generated September 2026.
Data update history
(8)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS February 4, 2020)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS April 14, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS November 12, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS December 2, 2022)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS December 13, 2023)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS January 15, 2025)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS October 10, 2025)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2025
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