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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.

$69k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
28%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,200
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations The Hodges Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving21$69k14%
FY202318$67k28%
FY202217$70k0%
FY202119$128k11%
FY202016$72k25%
FY201914$72k29%
FY201812$71k25%
FY201713$80kn/a
80% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$172kHuman Services$79kEducation$50kRecreation & Sports$35kInternational$24kYouth Development$15kArts & Culture$10kHealth$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Abilene Heritage Square Inc$50,00011%
Noah Project Inc$22,20081%
Mentoring Alliance$18,60030%
Young Life$15,10080%
Freedom House$15,05060%
Noroc Inc$12,70082%
Wipediseasesfoundation$7,000723%
Freedom House$4,90020%
Samaritan's Purse$4,70050%
Abilene Boys Ranch Inc$4,20060%
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All grantees of The Hodges Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Abilene Heritage Square Inc$50,00011%
Noah Project Inc$22,20081%
Mentoring Alliance$18,60030%
Young Life$15,10080%
Freedom House$15,05060%
Noroc Inc$12,70082%
Wipediseasesfoundation$7,000723%
Freedom House$4,90020%
Samaritan's Purse$4,70050%
Abilene Boys Ranch Inc$4,20060%
Abilene Open Door Inc$4,00025%
Jack Brewer Foundation$3,40010%
Love & Care Ministries$2,00020%
Meals on Wheels$1,40021%
Grace Museum Inc$90010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($463k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hodges Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAbilene Heritage Square Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNoah Project Inc: $22,200 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetMentoring Alliance: $18,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Life: $15,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom House: $15,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNoroc Inc: $12,700 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetWipediseasesfoundation: $7,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetFreedom House: $4,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $4,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAbilene Boys Ranch Inc: $4,200 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAbilene Open Door Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetJack Brewer Foundation: $3,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLove & Care Ministries: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels: $1,400 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGrace Museum Inc: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Barber FoundationTX20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The Hodges Foundation

How much does The Hodges Foundation give?
The Hodges Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $68,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Hodges Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Human Services (13%), Education (8%).
Who are The Hodges Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Abilene Heritage Square Inc ($50k), Noah Project Inc ($22k), Mentoring Alliance ($19k).
Does The Hodges Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hodges 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 The Hodges Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Barber Foundation, Moss Adamson Spalding Charities, Greathouse Foundation.
Where is The Hodges Foundation based?
The Hodges Foundation is based in TX.

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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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