· Public charity
Mary L and William J Osher Foundation
See Schedule OThe purpose of the Mary L.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee | $2,150,000 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Houston | $850,000 |
| Houston Jewish Community Foundation | $100,000 |
| Hand in Hand-Center for Jewish-Arab Education | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 55% of Mary L and William J Osher Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +65% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc4× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +24%- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC5× · 2017–2021 · $882k · revenue +169%
- HIHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA3× · 2017–2024 · $582k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +65%
- SSSECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTONone grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue 0%
- TVTHE VITA-LIVING FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +531%
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.
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.
Supporting organization of jewish family service.
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How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood South Texas ↗
- Who funds Houston Jewish Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds THE VITA-LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds SHAREBABY INC ↗
- Who funds JANE'S DUE PROCESS INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Houston Jewish Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary L and William J Osher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary L and William J Osher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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