· Private foundation
Oldham Little Church Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $169k
- $10k–50k105 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| South Union Missionary Baptist Church | $45,000 |
| Houston Christian University (formerly HBU) | $25,000 |
| Brookstone Church | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Rio Grande Bible Institute Inc | $20,000 |
| As Our Own | $18,000 |
| Vine Street Baptist Church | $18,000 |
| The Freedom Worship Center Inc | $18,000 |
| Tecumseh Church of the Nazarene | $17,000 |
| Peoples Community CME Church | $16,000 |
| Rock Springs CME Church | $16,000 |
| Grace Baptist Church | $16,000 |
| Westlake Community Church of God | $15,500 |
| Rochester Baptist Church | $15,500 |
| Steel Valley Church | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $287k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 96 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- HOHEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY5× · 2017–2023 · $215k · revenue +20%
- AOAS OUR OWN NFP8× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +22%
- WHWORLD HOPE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL4× · 2018–2024 · $63k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- LBLIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHAPELone grant, 2020 · $25k
- HCHOUSTON CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $25k
- PSProject Savvyone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -63%
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.
Faith based organization church
Training pastors in third world countries
Ministries
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
Church
Training pastors and leaders in christian faith
Christian nbsp;innercity nbsp;community nbsp;outreach nbsp;ministry
The church exists to glorify God and make disciples of Jesus Christ
Ministries church
A training ministry that equips the saints more focusing on preparing leaders and ministers of the word for the work of ministry to the building up of the body of Christ.
Church organization
To go and make disciples of all nations, in the name and power of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.We are committed to proclaim, challenge, encourage and minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the nations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Centers of Houston and the most unlike its peers is Project Savvy. 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 39 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 847 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds AS OUR OWN NFP ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS SHELTERING ARMS COALITION ↗
- Who funds CHARACTER CAMP ↗
- Who funds WORLD HOPE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Lovesick Ministries ↗
- Who funds YOUTH-REACH HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Eyes On Me Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSIONINVEST USA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC ↗
- Who funds RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The For All Mankind Movement Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION CENTERS OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Project Savvy ↗
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: Stoller Foundation · The Awe and Wonder Foundation · Jehovah - Jireh Foundation · The Cross Foundation · ESB3 Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Indianapolis Center for Congregations Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc
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 Oldham Little Church 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.
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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