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Overlake Foundation Inc at a glance

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Overlake Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$569k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$119k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$1.1MReligion$951kHealth$786kHuman Services$456kAnimals$400kEducation$173kFood & Nutrition$171kRecreation & Sports$126kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $389k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $119k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TURNING POINT$118,575
HEART OF TX THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR$49,000
CUTTING EDGE RETIREMENT FOUNDATION$45,000
GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES$45,000
HORSEMEN FOR CHRIST$45,000
UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$45,000
NORTHSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH$35,000
GREENWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH$30,000
SAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND$25,000
CAMP JOHN MARC$20,000
PASTOR RICK'S DAILY HOPE$20,000
THE ARRE FOUNDATION$10,000
CAREITY FOUNDATION$10,000
RIVERTREE ACADEMY$10,000
CHRIST'S KITCHEN$6,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 16%MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 16%MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 16%MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 16%MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 16%MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 16%MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 16%MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 16%MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 16%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 38 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
8

Total granted

$4.4M
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+11%

Still filing today

61%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyReligionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • HF
    Horsemen for Christ
    9× · 2017–2025 · $351k · revenue +166%
  • GH
    GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +109%
  • CF
    CAREITY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $232k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • TO
    THE O'CONNOR FAMILY CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $23k · revenue +9%
  • SA
    STARS AND STRIDES STABLES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -22%
  • BR
    BURTTSCHELL RESCUE RANCH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +24%
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
Fort Davis Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Fire Protection & Emergency Rescue

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Frelsburg Volunteer Fire Dept

Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Southern Brooks Volunteer Fire Departmen

Fire, medical and other emergency first responders servicing rural brooks county in south texas

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4
Southern Oaks Volunteer Fire Department

Fire, rescue and emergency medical operations for the residents of Freestone and Navarro Counties.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Nursery Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
6
San Saba Volunteer Fire Department

To protect the lives and property of the citizens of the city and county of San Saba, Texas.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Surfside Beach Vfd

To provide emergency fire and medical services.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Wimberley Volunteer Fire Department

Fire fighting and prevention and rescue and emergency medical services

—
9
Hainesville Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
10
South Brazos County Fire Department

Volunteer Fire Department, providing fire, rescue, and medical services to a population of approximately 22,000 residents, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Clyde Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire suppression, fire investigation, and search and rescue services to the citizens of clyde and the surrounding rural areas of callahan co., tx.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
McQueeney Volunteer Fire Department

Fire protection and rescue services

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meyersville Volunteer Fire Department; the most unlike its peers is The Kathryn O'connor 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

30 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. 30 of the 49 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TURNING POINT: $1,053,575 · OtherTURNING POINTNORTHSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH: $485,356 · OtherNORTHSIDE BAPTIST CHURCHGREENWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH: $95,000 · Other+30 more: $886,844 · Other+30 moreHorsemen for Christ: $350,500 · ReligionHorsemen for Ch…GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $270,000 · ReligionGRACE HOUSE MIN…HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $304,000 · HealthHEART OF TEXAS…CAREITY FOUNDATION: $232,421 · HealthCAREITY FOUNDA…BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $25,001 · Health+2 more: $15,500 · HealthCUTTING EDGE RETIREMENT FOUNDATION: $320,000 · AnimalsCUTTING ED…SAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND: $70,000 · AnimalsSAVING HOP…+1 more: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE MICHELLE LYNN HOLSEY FOUNDATION: $130,000 · PhilanthropyVICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentMID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES: $72,000 · Human ServicesPERPETUAL HELP HOME INC: $41,000 · Human Services
Other$2,520,775Religion$620,500Health$576,922Animals$400,000Philanthropy$147,000Youth Development$125,000Human Services$113,000

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 budgetHorsemen for Christ: $350,500 over 9y, 14% of budgetCUTTING EDGE RETIREMENT FOUNDATION: $320,000 over 9y, 76% of budgetHEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $304,000 over 9y, 31% of budgetGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $270,000 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetCAREITY FOUNDATION: $232,421 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetTHE MICHELLE LYNN HOLSEY FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 7y, 9.9% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $125,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES: $72,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetSAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND: $70,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGCA ATHLETICS: $70,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetTHE KATHRYN O'CONNOR FOUNDATION: $65,594 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCHRIST'S KITCHEN: $62,000 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS SOUTH TEXAS: $51,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetPERPETUAL HELP HOME INC: $41,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $25,001 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRaisin Volunteer Fire Department: $18,250 over 9y, 15% of budgetVICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetQUAIL CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $13,500 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetFANNIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $13,250 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetSTARS AND STRIDES STABLES INC: $11,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBURTTSCHELL RESCUE RANCH: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSCHROEDER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $7,250 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDER-WESER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $4,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMY BELL CHARITIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Horsemen for Christ ↗
  • Who funds CUTTING EDGE RETIREMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CAREITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHELLE LYNN HOLSEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RIVERTREE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND ↗
  • Who funds GCA ATHLETICS ↗
  • Who funds THE KATHRYN O'CONNOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST'S KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS SOUTH TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds PERPETUAL HELP HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE O'CONNOR FAMILY CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Raisin Volunteer Fire Department ↗
  • Who funds VICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds QUAIL CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds FANNIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds STARS AND STRIDES STABLES INC ↗
  • Who funds BURTTSCHELL RESCUE RANCH ↗

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.

Peach Mott Foundation…South Texas Charitabl…The Kathryn O'Connor …The O'Connor & Hewitt…Galvan Family Charita…Dick Albert & Mary Ch…Communities Foundatio…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…
Peach Mott Foundation IncTX20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Peach Mott Foundation Inc · South Texas Charitable Foundation · The Kathryn O'Connor Foundation · The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation · Galvan Family Charitable Foundation · Dick Albert & Mary Charitable Tr · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Overlake Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Overlake 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 49 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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