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Oeschger Family Foundation at a glance

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Oeschger Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$455k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$532kHousing & Shelter$494kPhilanthropy$457kEducation$432kHealth$338kArts & Culture$213kYouth Development$110kCommunity Improvement$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
$5,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUYON SAUNDERS RESOURCE CENTER$100,000
AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100,000
KIDS INC$75,000
AMARILLO SYMPHONY$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
GUYON SAUNDERS RESOURCE CENTER$20,991
DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER$10,833
DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER$10,000
LAURA W BUSH INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S$10,000
EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE$10,000
ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE$7,935
HARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH$7,500
DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER$5,500
HARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH$5,000
MISSION 2540$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $377k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%FAITH CITY MISSION: $5k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $100k → 20%FAITH CITY MINISTRIES: $100k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $97k → 20%FAITH CITY MINISTRIES: $23k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $19k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $8k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $6k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $3k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $2k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $2k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $2k → 20%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 28 repeat orgs$282k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
10

Total granted

$2.3M
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
-2%

Still filing today

68%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • AS
    AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $160k · revenue +102%
  • DW
    DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +7%
  • ES
    EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • WT
    WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $67k · revenue -19%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • MB
    MAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +39%
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
Center City of Amarillo Inc

Center city of amarillo, inc., brings people to downtown amarillo through organization, events, promotion, design and facilitation of economic restructuring.

Community Improvement
2
Aaf Community Health Foundation

Support organization of amarillo area foundation, inc. to provide and support medical and health care facilities, services, and education in amarillo, texas, and the texas panhandle area.

Health
3
Amarillo Botanical Gardens

To inspire people to connect with plants through education, experience, and enjoyment

Environment
4
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
5
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
6
Texas Girls and Boys Ranch

Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.

Human Services
7
East Texas Community Clinic Inc

To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.

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8
Amarillo Area Adult Literacy Council Inc

Promotion of adult literacy in the texas panhandle.

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9
Amarillo Tribune

The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized shall be limited to: (a)providing information about public policy, politics, government, and national and statewide issues to the general public.

Community Improvement
10
Texas Center for Child and Family Studies

To strengthen the lives of children and families.

Human Services
11
Texas a&M-Corpus Christi Foundation

For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi

Education
12
Amarillo Spca

Welfare of homeless animals

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Area Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Downtown Women's Center Inc. 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

28 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. 28 of the 45 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
14/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $320,000 · OtherTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $126,539 · OtherDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INCKIDS CO: $75,000 · OtherKIDS COACTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $52,500 · OtherTEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL CENTER: $50,000 · OtherHEAL THE CITY: $50,000 · OtherHARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH: $47,500 · OtherTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AMARILLO: $45,000 · Other+20 more: $221,950 · Other+20 moreFAITH CITY INC: $354,918 · Human ServicesFAITH CITY INCEVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE: $70,000 · Human ServicesEVELINE'S SUNSHIN…+2 more: $22,406 · Human ServicesAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC: $345,500 · PhilanthropyAMARILLO AREA FO…MISSION 2540: $41,347 · PhilanthropyMISSION 2540Texas Cultural Trust Council: $40,000 · PhilanthropyTexas Cultural T…TYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $323,487 · Recreation & SportsTYLER STREET…+1 more: $1,100 · Recreation & SportsTURN CENTER: $265,000 · HealthTURN CENTERMEDICAL CENTER LEAGUE HOUSE OF AMARILLO TEXAS INC: $20,000 · HealthMEDICAL CEN…AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $160,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $66,500 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationThe Leaders Readers Network: $5,000 · Education
Other$1,138,489Human Services$447,324Philanthropy$426,847Recreation & Sports$324,587Health$285,000Arts & Culture$166,000Education$101,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAITH CITY INC: $354,918 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC: $345,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $323,487 over 5y, 25% of budgetTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $320,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetTURN CENTER: $265,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $160,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $126,539 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetEVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE: $70,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $66,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AMARILLO: $45,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMISSION 2540: $41,347 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetTexas Cultural Trust Council: $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMEDICAL CENTER LEAGUE HOUSE OF AMARILLO TEXAS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK: $19,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $12,406 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF AMARILLO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Leaders Readers Network: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOAR Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF AMARILLO TEXAS: $3,550 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHidden Falls Ranch: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLOTTE CARDINALS RUGBY CLUB: $1,100 over 1y, 0.7% 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 FAITH CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TURN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE ↗
  • Who funds WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AMARILLO ↗
  • Who funds MISSION 2540 ↗
  • Who funds Texas Cultural Trust Council ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL CENTER LEAGUE HOUSE OF AMARILLO TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds AMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF AMARILLO INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Leaders Readers Network ↗
  • Who funds HARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOAR 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

High Plains Christian…Amarillo Area Foundat…Dr Kent Roberts & Ile…Josephine Anderson Ch…Mary E Bivins Foundat…Mays FoundationAmarillo Business Fou…Kimble Foundation Tru…Cj and Syble Fowlston…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Ware FoundationBruckner Family Found…
High Plains Christian Ministries FoundationTX45.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Mays Foundation · Amarillo Business Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Ware Foundation · Bruckner Family Foundation Inc

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 Oeschger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oeschger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 45 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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