· Private foundation
O Paul Decker Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE - DAF DONATION | $60,000 |
| LANDMARK FUND | $55,000 |
| CASA DE ESPERANZA | $12,500 |
| HOPE CANCER RETREAT | $12,000 |
| ALL THE KING'S HORSES | $10,000 |
| MISSIONS ON WHEELS | $7,500 |
| KNOWLEDGE POINT NETWORK | $7,500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MONTGOMERY | $7,500 |
| LION BAND BOOSTERS | $7,500 |
| FLEX DANCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| CONROE ART LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $5,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| GODS GARAGE | $5,000 |
| CREEKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TWTHRIVE WITH AUTISM FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $128k · revenue +126%
LANDMARK SCHOOL INC4× · 2018–2021 · $80k · revenue +47%- MCMONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY4× · 2018–2021 · $75k · revenue +207%
Funded once
- LSLANDMARK SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $20k
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $15k
- TBTHE BRIARWOOD SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide quality education for students from pre school through middle school using the Montessori method of learning and teaching.
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
To foster the independence and dignity of homebound seniors in montgomery county by providing them with nutritious meals, transportation, and caring connections.
MADE Houston was formed to create a school community focused on nurturing and developing the unique academic and social needs of students with learning differences and to successfully transition students into mainstream schools.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
Wonderworks educates students to become better-qualified college applicants and better equipped to succeed in undergraduate studies by exploring challenging subject matter and techniques in a college setting.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery County Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Peninsula Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
46 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. 46 of the 84 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THRIVE WITH AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds All The Kings Horses ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Montgomery County ↗
- Who funds Gods Garage Inc ↗
- Who funds CONROE ART LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Missions on Wheels Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIPS FOR TRAUMA RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Lake Conroe Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Knowledge Point Network ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SPECIAL CHILDREN'S PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CANCER RETREAT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Montgomery County Community Foundation · The Woodforest Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust
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 O Paul Decker Memorial Foundation 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.
- Bok Tower Gardens Inc — 1% of income from government
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.