· Private foundation
Oshman 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARK - ASSESSMENT CENTER & EMERGENCY | $1,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH APPEAL OF CORPUS | $1,000 |
| THE PURPLE DOOR | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WSWOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS3× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +86%
- MOMISSION OF MERCY INC2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +7%
- CBCOASTAL BEND WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $700 · revenue +123%
Funded once
- SCSOUTH CENTRAL REGION OFone grant, 2022 · $1k
- CBCONGREGATION BETH ISRAELone grant, 2023 · $1k
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +16%
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.
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.
Animal Rescue
Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues rehabilitates and rehomes abandoned injured and at risk animals in the Alvin and Greater Houston region providing medical care safe foster placement community education and adoption services to promote humane…
Provide funding for the very best care to the many homeless animals that come to our local shelters. this includes medical procedures due to injuries, illness, heartworm treatments, foster support, and more.
Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…
PAWS' purpose is to provide refuge to stray and unwanted animals. PAWS' mission is to prevent cruelty to all animals by promoting humane standards through education and example, to provide care and shelter for homeless animals, aid in the…
to help neglected abandoned and abused companion animals through public donation Donations help fund medical condition that would otherwise go untreated such as heartworm unnecessary pregnancies and basic care The ability to provide these…
Rescue dogs that have been abused
Friends of Texas Panhandle Shelter Pets is a placement and transport rescue that works with small town panhandle shelters to help animals who are at risk of euthanasia get to rescues where they are adopted and loved.Our volunteers work…
Throw a Dog a Bone is an all-breed dog rescue located in Austin, TX. We focus on saving dogs primarily in the rural shelters in South Texas. Many of these shelters have no exposure and very few resources. Our mission is to rescue as many…
Recover animals in substandard conditions and give those animals better lives through nurturing,attending to the animal's needs; relocating, educating and adopting.
Animal rescue
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COMBINED JEWISH APPEAL OF CORPUS CHRISTI ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Friends of the ARK Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEND WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS OF PORT ARANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS - GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Oshman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oshman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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