· Private foundation
The Kathryn O'Connor Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $458k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEALS ON WHEELS SOUTH TEXAS - VICTORIA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC | $70,000 |
| VICTORIA CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY | $50,000 |
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| CHRIST'S KITCHEN | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF VICTORIA TEXAS | $35,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF VICTORIA INC | $30,000 |
| MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES | $30,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT | $30,000 |
| REFUGIO COUNTY ELDERLY SERVICES | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF REFUGIO COUNTY | $30,000 |
| GOLDEN CRESCENT CASA INC | $30,000 |
| GOLIAD COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC | $25,000 |
| VICTORIA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| AFFECTIONATE ARMS | $20,000 |
| GOLIAD COUNTY OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
53 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- MFMID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $215k · revenue +140%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS SOUTH TEXAS3× · 2023–2025 · $180k · revenue +13%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF VICTORIA TEXAS6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- RCREFUGIO COUNTY LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Provide training and support to the fire department for the citizens of cove, texas
The cat spring volunteer fire department was established to provide emergency services and fire protection for the city of cat spring, texas and surrounding area within the county of austin.
To provide protection of dwellings, buildings, and property situated in and around fannin, texas from damages caused by fire.
Provide shelter and relief for victims of domestic abuse
Multi-texas city and county fire department and ambulance service
Provides emergency & fire services to the community.
The primary purpose of the organization is to establish and maintain a network within and on behalf of the faith based, non-profit, government, business, volunteers, and other organizations and agencies which will provided coordinated long…
Food and shelter for indigent
Volunteer fire department
Provide fire protection for the san antonio district and surrounding areas.
Provide fire and rescue service and fire inspections to the prudence island fire district
To help victims of domestic violence to receive refuge and provide them with assistance and preparation to heal and become self-reliant.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victoria Christian Assistance Ministry and the most unlike its peers is The Dorothy H O'connor Pet Adoption Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 57 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 MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CHRIST'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF VICTORIA TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VICTORIA IN ↗
- Who funds GOLIAD COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRESIDIO LA BAHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFFECTIONATE ARMS ↗
- Who funds PERPETUAL HELP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER PARENTS OF VICTORIA INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOROTHY H O'CONNOR PET ADOPTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds DONUM DEI THE RIDING THERAPY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROMISE POINTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VINE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GOLIAD COUNTY OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BILLY T CATTAN RECOVERY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Raisin Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds QUAIL CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
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: The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation · Wood Family Memorial Trust · York Albert E & Myrtle Gunn Trust · Dick Albert & Mary Charitable Tr · United Way of the Crossroads · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Galvan Family Charitable Foundation · Crossroads Foundation Crossroads Foundation · South Texas Charitable Foundation · Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation · Overlake Foundation Inc · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation
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 Kathryn O'Connor 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.
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