· Private foundation
Odyssey Outreach
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS | $5,891 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES OF FORT BEND | $2,180 |
| LOVE 146 | $2,175 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,107 |
| HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON | $2,088 |
| STAR OF HOPE | $2,080 |
| GIRLS INC OF GREATER HOUSTON | $2,010 |
| MD ANDERSON FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE | $2,000 |
| FORT BEND HOPE | $1,560 |
| EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY | $1,545 |
| KIDS' MEALS INC | $1,090 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,071 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $1,057 |
| HOUSTAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,057 |
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 (FY21–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- GIGirls Incorporated of Greater Houston5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +10%
Living Water International5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +27%- LELAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- TITHIS IS HOUSETONone grant, 2022 · $3k
- HHHalo House Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +149%
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.
Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…
The Organizations mission is to save the lives of adoptable dogs and cats from shelters throughout Texas, to decrease overpopulation of animals through low-cost veterinary services, and to enhance the lives of pets through educational…
Humane Society of Harris County's mission remains steadfast: to provide high-quality adoption, transport, foster, Trap, neuter, release, and pet food pantry services to our community. Yet, with a fresh perspective and a renewed passion,…
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
Rescue and place abandoned and unwanted pets. Provide low cost spay / neuter. Provide low-cost microchips. Provide community education.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Md Anderson Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 66 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 Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Living Water International ↗
- Who funds LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Fort Bend Paws ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TRIUMPH OVER KID CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE146 INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More ↗
- Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ATTACK POVERTY ↗
- Who funds Citizens For Animal Protection Inc ↗
- Who funds LUNCHES OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Halo House Foundation ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds MD Anderson Foundation ↗
- Who funds Family Literacy Network Inc ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAISEUP FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds REACH UNLIMITED INC ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · The George Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Fort Bend Junior Service League
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 Odyssey Outreach 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.
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% 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.
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Find your warmest path to Odyssey Outreach through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.