· Private foundation
The O'Connor & Hewitt 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 $10k35 grants · $148k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $638k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $425k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOROTHY H O'CONNOR PET ADOPTION CENTER | $560,400 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| BILLY T CATTAN RECOVERY OUTREACH INC | $75,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS SOUTH TEXAS | $75,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT | $60,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $60,000 |
| VICTORIA BACH FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC | $55,000 |
| VICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| CHRIST'S KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| GULF BEND CENTER | $40,000 |
| MIDCOAST CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| ROCKPORT CENTER FOR THE ARTS (ROCKPORT ART ASSOCIATION INC) | $31,000 |
| GOLDEN CRESCENT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $30,000 |
| TEXAS MARITIME MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC | $30,000 |
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, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
78 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
- TDTHE DOROTHY H O'CONNOR PET ADOPTION CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +12% · 64% of their budget
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS SOUTH TEXAS3× · 2023–2025 · $260k · revenue +13%
- MCMID COAST CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY TRUST4× · 2022–2025 · $220k · revenue +139% · 53% of their budget
Funded once
- VSVICTORIA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC - MEALS ON WHEELS SOUTH TEXASone grant, 2022 · $100k
- WMWitte Museumgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +39%
- COCITY OF VICTORIAone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Operation of the texas zoo in victoria, texas and connect people with the wildlife from texas and the rest of the world, for nature and advance conservation through education, recreation, science and action. the mission is accomplished…
To encourage agricultural and horticultural causes in the victoria, texas area with an emphasis on youth activities.
To promote a unified image of the business district and attractive quality image of downtown victoria, texas. economic restructuring and repurposing of old buildings to stimulate investment in property. training for managers and board…
The goal of the organization is to suppport the Museum's efforts to preserve and exhibit the multi-cultural heritage of the Coastal Bend area for both the education and enjoyment of the public.
To educate the public about the rich cultural history of settlers in South Texas
To preserve western heritage.
Ensuring continuity of service, increased professionalism, enhanced cooperation, and protecting the rights and property of our communities.
Preserve the history of brazoria county, texas.
Volunteer fire department
To provide the general public with the rich heart of texas heritage
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victoria 100 Club and the most unlike its peers is Victoria Livestock Show. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 100 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 THE DOROTHY H O'CONNOR PET ADOPTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CRESCENT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MID COAST CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE VINE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA BACH FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CRESCENT COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE KATHRYN O'CONNOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Morgan's Wonderland ↗
- Who funds BILLY T CATTAN RECOVERY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds Victoria Regional Museum ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds Childrens Discovery Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS MARITIME MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS WEEKEND ↗
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 Kathryn O'Connor Foundation · Dick Albert & Mary Charitable Tr · York Albert E & Myrtle Gunn Trust · Wood Family Memorial Trust · South Texas Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Galvan Family Charitable Foundation · Crossroads Foundation Crossroads Foundation · United Way of the Crossroads
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 O'Connor & Hewitt 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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