· Private foundation
The Hodges 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| MENTORING ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| JACK BREWER FOUNDATION | $3,400 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE | $2,200 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $2,000 |
| PINE COVE CHRISTIAN CAMP | $1,800 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,500 |
| NOROC | $1,500 |
| JOSH MCDOWELL MINISTRY | $1,300 |
| PARAMOUNT THEATRE | $1,200 |
| LOVE AND CARE MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| WIPE DISEASES FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| OPEN DOOR | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- NPNOAH PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +23%
- MAMENTORING ALLIANCE3× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +287%
- YLYOUNG LIFE8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- AHABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +110%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- GMGRACE MUSEUM INCone grant, 2017 · $900 · 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.
We distribute food, clothing, and toiletry items to the poor and needy along the TX-Mexico Border as well as ministering to their spiritual needs through services, health programs, and other humanitarian efforts.
Extending gods love worldwide through hands-on humanitarian methods. feeding, educating,training, and equipping orphans and widows in africa to find self worth, identity and purpose.
The church exists to glorify God and make disciples of Jesus Christ
Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.
Empowers older and disabled adults to live independentlly in thier own homes by providing nutritious home-delivered meals, safety checks, socialization, and community connection, which result in an enhanced quality of life and purpose as…
The ministry exists to serve offenders in prison and ex-offenders in the community by showing god's love, providing practical assistance, and supporting biblical standards of justice.
To provide various ministries including a homeless shelter, an addictions recovery program, and a widows and orphans program in a christian environment.
Feed the poor and underriviledged persons in abilene, texas
We take in homeless men and train them in life skills and skilled labor. we provide transportation, housing, and living expenses for the men until they are able to find permanent work and housing.
The mission of First Refuge Ministries is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ by offering essential services to those in need within our community. Our belief is that every person has worth and value since they are created by God. Our goal…
Prison ministry and provide faith based clean and sober housing programs to both men and women.
The Grace Message exists to share the hope and encouragement found in the New Covenant message of Gods grace by helping people embrace the finished work of Christ, walk in their new identity, and enjoy freedom from lifeless religion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom House and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 34 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 ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds NOAH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NOROC INC ↗
- Who funds WIPEDISEASESFOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Abilene Boys Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds ABILENE OPEN DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds JACK BREWER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Love & Care Ministries ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds GRACE MUSEUM 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: Barber Foundation · Moss Adamson Spalding Charities · Greathouse Foundation · Community Foundation of Abilene · Joe Davis Foundation - Defined · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · Shelton Family Foundation · The Legett Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Hodges 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.