Texas · Private foundation
Oshman 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.
- $507k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $473,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $746k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Oshman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $507k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $365k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $176k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $135k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $102k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Orange Show Foundation | $1,024,500 | 5 | 15% |
| Menil Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Houston Parks Board | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Discovery Green Conservancy | $17,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Holocaust Museum Houston | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Houston Center for Contemporary Craft | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Contemporary Arts Museum Houston | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Oshman Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Brown Foundation Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Houston Arts Alliance · Kinder Foundation · The Wortham Foundation Inc · The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc · The Elkins Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Oshman Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Oshman Foundation 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.
About Oshman Foundation
- How much does Oshman Foundation give?
- Oshman Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $506,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Oshman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (88%), Recreation & Sports (4%), Health (4%).
- Who are Oshman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Orange Show Foundation ($1.0M), Menil Foundation Inc ($45k), Baylor College of Medicine ($35k).
- Does Oshman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Oshman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Oshman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Brown Foundation Inc, Houston Endowment Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is Oshman Foundation based?
- Oshman Foundation is based in TX.
Play a game based on Oshman’s filings →