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OShea 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $897k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Strake Jesuit College Preparatory S | $150,000 |
| Casa Juan Diego | $120,000 |
| Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo | $100,000 |
| Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundati | $100,000 |
| Search Homeless | $100,000 |
| Collaborative for Children | $89,000 |
| One Goal | $75,000 |
| Lord of the Streets | $62,500 |
| Small Steps | $50,000 |
| ProUnitas | $50,000 |
| St Theresa Church | $39,000 |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdioce | $25,000 |
| Spring Spirit | $20,000 |
| American Council on Education | $10,000 |
| Families Empowered | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $324k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% 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 +40% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 19 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $448k 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
HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +20%- CJCASA JUAN DIEGO2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +40%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D2× · 2023–2024 · $149k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE TEXASone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -25%
- CCChristian Community Service Center Incone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +9%
- CACHILD ADVOCATES INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -5%
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.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.
Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.
College advising corps (cac) is the nation's largest nonprofit service organization dedicated to advancing educational equity and expanding opportunity for all high school students. cac provides college enrollment and career guidance to…
The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
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.…
In partnership with educators, CollegeSpring helps students impacted by poverty demonstrate their full potential on college and career readiness assessments that unlock better opportunities after high school. Our vision is that every…
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Empower all students to lead choice-filled lives and increase the rate of college completion and viable career obtainment for historically underserved students. To better support students in mitigating and balancing school work and life…
Avance creates pathways to economic mobility for predominately latino families through high quality, culturally responsive, two-generation programming that ensures school-readiness for young children and opportunities for parents to build…
Peer power foundation hires, trains, and deploys college students to be success coaches in economically disadvantaged high schools. (expanded mission on schedule o)these success coaches work primarily inside of english, math, and science…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Positive Tomorrows Inc and the most unlike its peers is P B J Outreach Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 43 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 HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds CASA JUAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds PARADISUS DEI INC ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds Collaborative for Children ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds PROUNITAS INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES EMPOWERED ↗
- Who funds THE WORKFAITH CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds CY-HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Courageous Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds P B J OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE TOMORROWS 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · The Zions Bancorporation Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Houston Food Bank · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 OShea Family 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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