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Omega Foundation Inc

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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2023
31
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$229k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Omega Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Omega Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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28
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15
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16
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’22
18
’23
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’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.3MReligion$968kEducation$544kHuman Services$424kHealth$414kHousing & Shelter$404kInternational$247kFood & Nutrition$134kOther$0
02FY2023 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k14 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
$11,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$233k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHABAD JEWISH CENTER$229,419
KESSELHAUT FAMILY FOUNDATION$219,419
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS$209,419
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OC$97,210
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$97,210
FRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE$97,210
TEMPLE BETH AM$97,210
ATHENS CHRISTIAN PREP ACADEMY$50,000
SERVANTS TO THE CITY$50,000
SECRET SHEPPARD$50,000
HENDERSON COUNTY HOMELESS MINISTRIE$50,000
TARRANT NET$30,000
SAND SPRINGS CHURCH$20,000
PAN AMERICAN HEALTH$20,000
CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH$14,992
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 (FY17–23, $365k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAPPY HILL FARM: $125k → 10%WHITE OAK GIVES BACK: $3k → 16%MISSION PRE BORN: $10k → 16%MERCY CHEFS: $3k → 20%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE: $10k → 13%HAPPY HILL FARM: $8k → 10%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE: $5k → 13%HENDERSON COUNTY HOMELESS MINISTRY: $85k → 13%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $5k → 11%HENDERSON COUNTY HOMELESS MINISTRIE: $50k → 13%HENDERSON COUNTY HOMELESS MINISTRIE: $35k → 13%HENDERSON COUNTY HOMELESS MINISTRY: $5k → 13%HENDERSON COUNTY HOMELESS MINISTRY: $5k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS: $3k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $3k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $3k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $3k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $3k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $3k → 11%PROJECT 4031: $2k → 11%CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK: $300 → 11%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

MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
AZ
KS
AR
TN
DC
OK
AL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 40 repeat orgs$994k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2023, 24 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
92

Total granted

$2.8M
$636k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+24%

Still filing today

50%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $357k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationInternationalHealthReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • KF
    Kesselhaut Family Foundation
    7× · 2017–2023 · $294k · revenue +30% · 71% of their budget
  • AC
    ATHENS CHRISTIAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $275k · revenue +6%
  • PA
    Pan American Health Service Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $229k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • HC
    HENDERSON COUNTY LOVE IN ACTION
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
  • FK
    FEEDING KIDS RIGHT INC
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -35%
  • K
    KLIFE
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Greater Austin Christian Foundation

Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.

Religion
3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
Taylor University

The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.

Education
5
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
6
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
7
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
8
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
9
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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10
Houston Christian University

The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."

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11
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

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12
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Chandor Gardens Foundation. 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

63 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. 63 of the 148 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/63
Grantees still filing
45/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHABAD JEWISH CENTER: $279,419 · OtherCHABAD JEWISH CENTERSERVANTS TO THE CITY: $208,000 · OtherSERVANTS TO THE CITYHENDERSON COUNTY LOVE IN ACTION: $125,000 · OtherHENDERSON COUNTY LOVE IN ACTIONFRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE: $97,210 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OC: $97,210 · OtherTEMPLE BETH AM: $97,210 · OtherAssistance League of Saddleback Valley: $75,000 · OtherTARRANT NET: $80,000 · Other+106 more: $848,225 · Other+106 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $870,835 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCKesselhaut Family Foundation: $294,419 · PhilanthropyKesselhaut Family FoundationTHE SECRET SHEPPARD INC: $170,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SECRET SHEPPARD INCHOPE SPRINGS WATER: $109,000 · PhilanthropyHOPE SPRINGS WATER+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHenderson County Homeless Ministry: $180,000 · Human ServicesHAPPY HILL FARM CHILDRENS HOME INC: $132,500 · Human ServicesNathan Adelson Hospice Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS: $15,000 · Human Services+6 more: $22,300 · Human ServicesATHENS CHRISTIAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $275,000 · Education+8 more: $32,700 · EducationPan American Health Service Inc: $229,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $10,000 · International+3 more: $6,300 · InternationalHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $219,419 · Housing & ShelterDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $122,210 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · HealthCook Children's Medical Center: $6,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · Health
Other$1,907,274Philanthropy$1,449,254Human Services$364,800Education$307,700International$245,300Housing & Shelter$219,419Health$138,310

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $870,835 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKesselhaut Family Foundation: $294,419 over 7y, 71% of budgetATHENS CHRISTIAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $275,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPan American Health Service Inc: $229,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $219,419 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHenderson County Homeless Ministry: $180,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetTHE SECRET SHEPPARD INC: $170,000 over 6y, 99% of budgetHAPPY HILL FARM CHILDRENS HOME INC: $132,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $122,210 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SPRINGS WATER: $109,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetTARRANT NET: $80,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetAssistance League of Saddleback Valley: $75,000 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetFEEDING KIDS RIGHT INC: $35,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF ATHENS: $25,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS: $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF BURMA INC: $19,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHENDERSON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $15,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetNathan Adelson Hospice Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $15,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetEL CAMINO CREEK PTA: $10,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetMission Pre-Born Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUDSON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCook Children's Medical Center: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Youth Correctional Ministries: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVIETHOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCalled to Life International Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetONE DANE AT A TIME INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetATHENS SAMARITANS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetATHENS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSS FORT WORTH (LCS-3) SUPPORT COMMITTEE INC: $4,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS WHO CARE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHITE OAK GIVES BACK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT 4031 INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTexas Bar Foundation: $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds Kesselhaut Family Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ATHENS CHRISTIAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Pan American Health Service Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds Henderson County Homeless Ministry ↗
  • Who funds THE SECRET SHEPPARD INC ↗
  • Who funds HAPPY HILL FARM CHILDRENS HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE SPRINGS WATER ↗
  • Who funds TARRANT NET ↗
  • Who funds Assistance League of Saddleback Valley ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING KIDS RIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF ATHENS ↗
  • Who funds DOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BURMA INC ↗
  • Who funds TALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HENDERSON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds Nathan Adelson Hospice 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.

Community Foundation of North Texas (TaxTX29.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Amon G Carter Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Athens Thrift Store Inc · James and Dorothy Doss Foundation Inc · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Once Upon a Time Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Omega Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Omega Foundation Inc 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.

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 148 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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