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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.

$230k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$342kEducation$295kReligion$278kArts & Culture$223kHealth$207kHuman Services$159kYouth Development$58kFood & Nutrition$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MONTGOMERY$7,500
MISSIONS ON WHEELS$7,500
KNOWLEDGE POINT NETWORK$7,500
LION BAND BOOSTERS$7,500
COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$5,000
MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK$5,000
GODS GARAGE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FLEX DANCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,000
CONROE ART LEAGUE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TEXAS SPECIAL CHILDREN'S PROJECTS: $5k → 16%VISTA DEL MAR: $2k → 14%TEXAS SPECIAL CHILDREN'S PROJECTS: $3k → 16%TEXAS SPECIAL CHILDREN'S PROJECTS: $1k → 16%SENIOR COASTSIDERS: $5k → 7%COASTSIDE ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTER: $5k → 7%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MONTGOMERY: $10k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MONTGOMERY: $8k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MONTGOMERY: $8k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MONTGOMERY: $5k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MONTGOMERY: $5k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MONTGOMERY: $5k → 9%GODS GARAGE: $5k → 9%GODS GARAGE: $5k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MONTGOMERY: $5k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MONTGOMERY: $4k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF MONTGOMERY: $4k → 9%GODS GARAGE: $2k → 9%TEXAS SPECIAL CHILDREN'S PROJECTS: $4k → 16%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MONTGOMERY: $1k → 9%GOD'S GARAGE: $5k → 9%KID'S MEALS: $10k → 16%GOD'S GARAGE: $3k → 9%KID'S MEALS: $4k → 16%KID'S MEALS: $3k → 16%KID'S MEALS: $1k → 16%GOD'S GARAGE: $5k → 9%GOD'S GARAGE: $5k → 9%GOD'S GARAGE: $4k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
MA
RI
CA
CO
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 45 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
36

Total granted

$1.7M
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+42%

Still filing today

49%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TW
    THRIVE WITH AUTISM FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $128k · revenue +126%
  • LANDMARK SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $80k · revenue +47%
  • MC
    MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $75k · revenue +190%

Funded once

  • LS
    LANDMARK SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • TB
    THE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +21%
  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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.

1
Hill Country Montessori School Inc

Provide quality education for students from pre school through middle school using the Montessori method of learning and teaching.

Education
2
Trinity Charter School

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…

Education
3
Meals On Wheels Montgomery County

To foster the independence and dignity of homebound seniors in montgomery county by providing them with nutritious meals, transportation, and caring connections.

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4
Made Houston

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.

Education
5
The Woodlands Christian Academy

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…

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6
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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7
Healing Hands Ministries Inc

Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.

Health
8
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

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…

Health
9
Wonderworks

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.

Education
10
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
11
Children's Health System of Texas

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.…

Health
12
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery County Food Bank Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 84 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
41/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE - DAF DONATION: $190,000 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE - DAF DONATIONMONTGOMERY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $168,000 · OtherMONTGOMERY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHLANDMARK FUND: $152,000 · OtherLANDMARK FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $84,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM: $77,500 · OtherUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISMPENINSULA MUSEUM OF ART: $75,000 · OtherPENINSULA MUSEUM OF ARTCOASTAL ARTS LEAGUE HALF MOON BAY: $65,000 · OtherCOASTAL ARTS LEAGUE HALF MOON BAY+45 more: $385,205 · Other+45 moreLANDMARK SCHOOL INC: $80,000 · EducationLANDMARK SCHOOL…MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $75,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY CHRI…CONROE ART LEAGUE INC: $33,500 · EducationCONROE ART LEAG…Rotary Club of Lake Conroe Foundation: $20,250 · EducationRotary Club of …THE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationTHE BRIARWOOD S…REGIS UNIVERSITY: $9,000 · Education+3 more: $13,500 · Education+3 moreTHRIVE WITH AUTISM FOUNDATION: $127,799 · Youth DevelopmentTHRIVE WITH…All The Kings Horses: $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentAll The Kin…+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentAssistance League of Montgomery County: $50,000 · Human ServicesGods Garage Inc: $33,500 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesTEXAS SPECIAL CHILDREN'S PROJECTS INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR COASTSIDERS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOASTSIDE ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTER: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIPS FOR TRAUMA RECOVERY: $25,000 · HealthPROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE: $5,000 · HealthGiant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc: $2,500 · HealthHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · HealthBUMBLEBEE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · HealthTHE ME ONE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · HealthSECOND CHANCE INC: $1,500 · HealthMissions on Wheels Inc: $31,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHouston Museum of Natural Science: $14,500 · Arts & CultureLAKE WALES ARTS COUNCIL INC: $13,750 · Arts & CultureTHE WOODLANDS CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,197,205Education$246,250Youth Development$185,299Human Services$128,000Health$40,500Public Safety & Disaster$31,000Arts & Culture$29,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHRIVE WITH AUTISM FOUNDATION: $127,799 over 3y, 12% of budgetLANDMARK SCHOOL INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA MUSEUM OF ART: $75,000 over 5y, 56% of budgetMONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $75,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetAll The Kings Horses: $52,500 over 9y, 17% of budgetAssistance League of Montgomery County: $50,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetGods Garage Inc: $33,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCONROE ART LEAGUE INC: $33,500 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetMissions on Wheels Inc: $31,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $29,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIPS FOR TRAUMA RECOVERY: $25,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRotary Club of Lake Conroe Foundation: $20,250 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetKnowledge Point Network: $15,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE WALES ARTS COUNCIL INC: $13,750 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTEXAS SPECIAL CHILDREN'S PROJECTS INC: $12,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetHOPE CANCER RETREAT: $12,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMILE HIGH RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSENIOR COASTSIDERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYES MONTGOMERY: $5,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetCenter for Humane Technology: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTSIDE ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEMMA WILLARD SCHOOL: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOURNEY HOME INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE DENVER WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUMBLEBEE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILDCARE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ME ONE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOK TOWER GARDENS INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOODLANDS CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 THRIVE WITH AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LANDMARK SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PENINSULA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • 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 THE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds MILE HIGH RESCUE ↗

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.

Montgomery County Com…The Woodforest Charit…Shell USA Company Fou…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…The Denver FoundationMarin Community Found…The Chicago Community…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The US Charitable Gif…
Montgomery County Community FoundationTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 O Paul Decker Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from O Paul Decker Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Bok Tower Gardens Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 84 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home