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Junior League of Odessa Inc

To promote voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Youth Development$127kHuman Services$50kHealth$47kRecreation & Sports$33kEducation$27kArts & Culture$27kHousing & Shelter$19kCrime & Legal$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $5,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $31,875 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,875 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ector County ISD - Odessa High School$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Odessa Links: $5k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $5k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $4k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $3k → 16%Odessa LINKS: $1k → 16%The Able Center: $5k → 16%Centers for Children and Families: $5k → 16%Odessa Family YMCA: $5k → 16%Odessa Family YMCA: $5k → 16%Odessa Family YMCA: $4k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$222k · 11 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
23

Total granted

$222k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+14%

Still filing today

82%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ODESSA
    3× · 2020–2024 · $84k · revenue +16%
  • EN
    ELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN
    3× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +505%
  • OF
    ODESSA FAMILY YMCA
    3× · 2019–2023 · $14k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • OP
    Odessa Parks Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $33k
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO & WEST TEXAS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -6%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +91%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Panhandle Behavioral Services Inc
Health
3
United Way of Odessa Inc

Improve lives by mobilizing the power of our community to advance the common good through the annual campaign used to allocate funds to 15 partner agencies who provide services in the following areas improving peoples mental and physical…

Philanthropy
4
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
5
Casa of the Permian Basin Inc

CASA trains volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the court system to ensure that each child is placed in a safe, permanent, and healthy environment.

Civil Rights
6
Christian Home of Pecos

Christain Home

Crime & Legal
7
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal
8
Greater Opportunities of the Permian Basin Inc

To provide a positive learning experience in a safe and healthy environment that will improve the quality of life for the children, service, and empower them to become self-sufficient, contributing members of the community.

Human Services
9
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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10
Odessa Crime Stoppers

To obtain information about crimes, wanted persons, and criminal activities. To help develop community offensive against crime to motivate members of the public to cooperate with law enforcement agencies and to provide for rewards and…

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11
Homeless Outreach Mitigation and Emergency Center

to reach functional zero homelessness in Hays County through outreach case management direct aid and emergency response while maintaining the dignity of the people we serve

Human Services
12
Odessa Chamber of Commerce

The odessa chamber of commerce is a volunteer business organization providing leadership to further develop and market the city of odessa, ector county, and the permian basin.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Odessa Links Inc and the most unlike its peers is Education Partnership of the Permian Basin. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr15%5%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr10%19%35–55yr20%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr15%5%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr10%14%35–55yr20%60%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/34
the rest of the field
12%
99/855

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ECTOR COUNTY ISD — $37,837 · OtherECTOR COUNTY ISDOdessa Parks Foundation — $33,000 · OtherOdessa Parks FoundationUniversity of Texas of the Permian Basin — $18,500 · OtherUniversity of Texas of the Permian BasinODESSA FAMILY PATHWAYS — $11,000 · OtherODESSA FAMILY PATHWAYSGIRL SCOUTS OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO & WEST TEXAS INC — $7,500 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST SOUTHERN N…ODESSA CHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC — $7,500 · OtherODESSA CHRISTMAS IN ACTION INCMarch of Dimes — $5,000 · Other+6 more — $19,903 · Other+6 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ODESSA — $84,250 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ODESSAODESSA FAMILY YMCA — $13,550 · Human ServicesODESSA FAMILY YMC…PERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER — $11,005 · Human ServicesPERMIAN BASIN MIS…ODESSA LINKS INC — $6,450 · Human ServicesODESSA LINKS INCABLE Center for Independent Living — $5,000 · Human ServicesABLE Center for I…REGIONAL ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD — $5,000 · Human ServicesREGIONAL ADULT PR…CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCENTERS FOR CHILD…HARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesHARMONY HOME CHIL…SAMARITAN CENTER INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN — $18,000 · Arts & CulturePERMIAN PLAYHOUSE OF ODESSA INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureMidland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc — $3,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BA — $5,000 · EducationEducation Partnership of the Permian Basin — $5,000 · EducationECTOR COUNTY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · EducationODESSA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $1,000 · EducationPERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER — $7,250 · HealthWEST TEXAS GIFTS OF HOPE INC — $6,500 · HealthPINK THE BASIN INC — $1,000 · HealthARCHWAY OUTREACH INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$140,240Youth Development$84,250Human Services$52,505Arts & Culture$24,000Education$18,500Health$14,750Philanthropy$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ODESSA — $84,250 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN — $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetODESSA FAMILY YMCA — $13,550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER — $11,005 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetODESSA FAMILY PATHWAYS — $11,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO & WEST TEXAS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetODESSA CHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC — $7,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER — $7,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST TEXAS GIFTS OF HOPE INC — $6,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetODESSA LINKS INC — $6,450 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEducation Partnership of the Permian Basin — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetABLE Center for Independent Living — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetECTOR COUNTY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREGIONAL ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD — $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetARCHWAY OUTREACH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK — $4,608 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGAPE CHRISTIAN SERVICES — $4,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INC — $4,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPERMIAN PLAYHOUSE OF ODESSA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMidland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCRISIS CENTER OF WEST TEXAS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetODESSA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPINK THE BASIN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Permian Basin Area Fo…JC Ferguson Foundatio…Abell-Hanger Foundati…United Way of Odessa …Scharbauer Foundation…Fmh FoundationPevehouse Family Foun…Helen Greathouse Char…Wayne & Jo Ann Moore …The Fasken FoundationThe Henry FoundationKen W Davis Foundation
Permian Basin Area FoundationTX46.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Permian Basin Area Foundation · JC Ferguson Foundation Inc · Abell-Hanger Foundation · United Way of Odessa Inc · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Fmh Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Ken W Davis Foundation

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Junior League of Odessa Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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