· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NOAH PROJECT | $1,000 |
| LOVE AND CARE MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| WIPE DISEASES FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hodges Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hodges Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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