How much does Hext Family Foundation give?

Hext Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,000,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.

What does Hext Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (68%), Religion (6%), Human Services (6%).

Who are Hext Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Odessa College Foundation Inc ($1.0M), IDEA Public Schools ($50k), Samaritan's Purse ($25k).

Does Hext Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Hext Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Hext Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Abell-Hanger Foundation, JC Ferguson Foundation Inc, Permian Basin Area Foundation.

Where is Hext Family Foundation based?

Hext Family Foundation is based in TX.

Hext Family Foundation

Hext Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Hext Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M

Granted FY2021

Grants FY2021

States reached

$1.0M

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$1.1MReligion$104kHuman Services$100kHealth$86kInternational$86kYouth Development$39kFood & Nutrition$31kRecreation & Sports$27kOther$0

02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$1,000,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$596k · 40 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2021, 40 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$596k

$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%

+123%

Still filing today

57%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

ReligionEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

SP
SAMARITAN'S PURSE
3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +134%
CA
China Aid Association Inc
3× · 2017–2019 · $16k · revenue +26%
SC
SHARE CORPORATION
3× · 2017–2019 · $16k · revenue +64%

Funded once

IP
IDEA Public Schoolsgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +123%
SC
SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $13k
OA
ODESSA ARTS
one grant, 2019 · $8k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Odessa Affordable Housing Inc

To improve housing conditions within Odessa, Texas through credit counseling, homebuyer education and home building/ rehabilitation programs that is affordable for low to moderate income residents.

Housing & Shelter

Katy Christian Ministries

See Schedule O.Katy Christian Ministries (KCM) is a social service non-profit that serves the Katy/West Houston area. KCM's Social Service Department offers emergency financial assistance, a Food Pantry, a Crisis Center that houses the…

Human Services

Catholic Charities Community Services Odessa Inc

Catholic charities/community services odessa, inc is a social service agency in the diocese of san angelo, tx catholic charities under the diocesan bishop accepts the responsibility to promote the physical

Human Services

The God of Hope Ministries

Provides a ministry of prayer evangelism discipleship & faith-based counseling to individuals who are incarcerated in the texas state prison system. in 2022 the ministry estimated outreach to approximately 300 individuals.

Religion

Border Missions

We distribute food, clothing, and toiletry items to the poor and needy along the TX-Mexico Border as well as ministering to their spiritual needs through services, health programs, and other humanitarian efforts.

Religion

Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition

The Chosen Ones Outreach Ministirie of Galveston Inc

The mission of the organization is to assist the needy vulnerable populations in the state of texas and its surrounding areas by providing low-inco housing, financial support, emergency shelter, and other charitable support to those in…

Human Services

Opportunity Resource Services Inc

Disrupt generational proverty in TX by empowering vulnerable teens & adults-especially 1st generation college students,low-income persons,& those involved with the crimminal justice system-to attain higher ed. degrees of value,secure…

Youth Development

Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County

A local united christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect and a new beginning for the homeless, offering a holistic care program that leads to true lasting healing.

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Operation Care International Inc

Operation care international exists to glorify god. in obedience to his will, we connect impoverished children and the homeless to jesus christ providing for their physical needs through god's provision both at home and abroad.

Human Services

First Baptist Denton Ministry Center

The mission of First Refuge Ministries is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ by offering essential services to those in need within our community. Our belief is that every person has worth and value since they are created by God. Our goal…

Health

Texas Reach Out Inc

Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Odessa College Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Share Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/28

Grantees still filing

20/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,080,000Other$409,500Religion$79,500Human Services$48,000Housing & Shelter$23,000Philanthropy$20,000International$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Abell-Hanger FoundationTX30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · JC Ferguson Foundation Inc · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · United Way of Odessa Inc · The Fasken Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Saulsbury Family Foundation Inc · Junior League of Odessa Inc · Beal Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hext Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hext Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The camps

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By state

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