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Simpson-Omohundro Foundation Omohundro Educational Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$210k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$375kHuman Services$262kFood & Nutrition$112kCrime & Legal$72kArts & Culture$46kReligion$35kHealth$25kHousing & Shelter$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tri-county Educational Foundation$105,000
All Saints Episcopal School$18,500
Southeast Texas Food Bank$15,000
Some Other Place$10,000
CASA of Southeast Texas Inc$8,000
Art Museum of Southeast Texas$7,500
Girls Haven$5,000
Buckner Children and Family Service$5,000
St Anne Catholic School$5,000
BISD Public School Foundation$5,000
IEA-Inspire Encourage Achieve$5,000
Salvation Army$3,000
Anayat House Inc$3,000
Saint Anne Catholic Church$3,000
Catholic Charities$3,000
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, $312k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 14%Southeast Texas Food Bank: $15k → 19%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 14%Southeast Texas Food Bank: $15k → 19%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 14%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $15k → 19%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $15k → 19%Buckner Children and Family Service: $5k → 14%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $12k → 19%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 14%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $10k → 19%Buckner Children and Family Service: $5k → 14%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $10k → 19%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $10k → 19%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $10k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $20k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $15k → 19%Some Other Place: $13k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $12k → 19%Some Other Place: $10k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $10k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $10k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $10k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $10k → 19%GIRLS HAVEN: $5k → 19%GIRLS HAVEN: $5k → 19%GIRLS HAVEN: $5k → 19%GIRLS HAVEN: $5k → 19%GIRLS HAVEN: $5k → 19%Girls Haven: $5k → 19%Girls Haven: $5k → 19%GIRLS HAVEN: $5k → 19%GIRLS HAVEN: $5k → 19%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 29 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -57% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
3

Total granted

$1.6M
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-57%

Still filing today

34%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TE
    TRI-COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $195k · revenue +21%
  • ST
    Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +27%
  • GH
    GIRLS' HAVEN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • MG
    MAGNOLIA GARDEN CLUB
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -57%
  • BC
    BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Christus Health Foundation of Southeast Texas

Christus health foundation of southeast texas serves the philanthropic needs of christus health southeast texas by soliciting and distributing contributions in support of christus health southeast texas.

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2
Hospice of East Texas

Hospice of east texas seeks to enhance the quality of life for individuals and families dealing with life-limiting illness and to assist bereaved family members by providing comprehensive, coordinated care and support.

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3
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
4
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…

Arts & Culture
5
Texas Society of Architects

Texas Society of Architects is the voice for Texas architecture, supporting the creation of safe, beautiful, sustainable environments.

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6
South Texas Food Bank

To alleviate hunger in the immediate service area through the distribution of food products donated by the usda, feeding america, area grocery stores, etc. which are distributed to the needy by way of area food banks and other qualified…

Community Improvement
7
South Taylor Emergency Medical Serv

To provide efficient, effective, and professional prehospital emergency care and transportation to those living in the unincorporated areas of Taylor County, Texas and as requested by municipalities in Taylor County

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8
Boys & Girls Clubs of Deep East Texas

To provide a place for children to go where they will have supervised activities, arts, crafts, and recreation.

Youth Development
9
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
10
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
11
St Stephen's Episcopal School

St. Stephen's Episcopal School - Houston ("St. Stephen's", "the School") nurtures each child's academic, creative, and spiritual potential.

Education
12
Katherine Anne Porter School

Nonprofit school chartered in the state of texas and monitored by the texas education agency.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls' Haven Inc; the most unlike its peers is Magnolia Garden Club. 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

13 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. 13 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $617,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTRI-COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $195,000 · OtherTRI-COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONCASA OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS: $72,000 · OtherCASA OF SOUTHEAST TEXASALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $51,000 · Other+20 more: $317,000 · Other+20 moreSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $112,000 · Human ServicesSoutheast Texas Food …Some Other Place: $109,500 · Human ServicesSome Other PlaceGIRLS' HAVEN INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS' HAVEN INCBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDREN & FA…Anayat House Inc: $24,000 · Housing & ShelterArt Museum of Southeast Texas: $12,000 · Arts & CultureBEAUMONT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentIEA - INSPIRE ENCOURAGE ACHIEVE: $10,000 · ReligionMAGNOLIA GARDEN CLUB: $5,000 · Environment
Other$1,252,500Human Services$311,500Housing & Shelter$24,000Arts & Culture$12,000Youth Development$10,000Religion$10,000Environment$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRI-COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $195,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $112,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSome Other Place: $109,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetGIRLS' HAVEN INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAnayat House Inc: $24,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetArt Museum of Southeast Texas: $12,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIEA - INSPIRE ENCOURAGE ACHIEVE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMAGNOLIA GARDEN CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSYMPHONY OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 TRI-COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds Some Other Place ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS' HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Anayat House Inc ↗
  • Who funds Art Museum of Southeast Texas ↗
  • Who funds BEAUMONT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IEA - INSPIRE ENCOURAGE ACHIEVE ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAGNOLIA GARDEN CLUB ↗
  • Who funds SYMPHONY OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS 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.

Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage FoundationTX22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation · Mechia Foundation · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · The Bob and Karen Wortham Charitable Fou · Gladys Bevil Charitable Trust · The Morgan Charitable Foundation · Mildred Yount Manion Charitable Foundation · Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Simpson-Omohundro Foundation Omohundro Educational Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simpson-Omohundro Foundation Omohundro Educational Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Simpson-Omohundro Foundation Omohundro Educational Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Simpson-Omohundro Foundation Omohundro Educational Trust 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 33 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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