Texas · Private foundation
The Sydnor Olga Oden Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $285k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Sydnor Olga Oden Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $285k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $266k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $225k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $237k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $229k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $230k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $214k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $253k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Center for Hearing and Speech | $335,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Center for Pursuit | $110,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Camp For All Foundation | $94,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Culver Educational Foundation | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Brookwood Community Inc | $70,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Burton Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $65,000 | 6 | 13% |
| Joy Development School | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Archway Academy | $49,500 | 7 | 1% |
| River Oaks Garden Club | $45,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Will Erwin Headache Research Foundation | $43,500 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($583k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sydnor Olga Oden Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Strake Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Marek Family Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Ellwood Foundation · Wayne Duddlesten Foundation · The Kayser Foundation
How this is measured
About The Sydnor Olga Oden Foundation
- How much does The Sydnor Olga Oden Foundation give?
- The Sydnor Olga Oden Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $285,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Sydnor Olga Oden Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (46%), Education (28%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are The Sydnor Olga Oden Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Center for Hearing and Speech ($335k), The Center for Pursuit ($110k), Camp For All Foundation ($95k).
- Does The Sydnor Olga Oden Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sydnor Olga Oden 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 Sydnor Olga Oden Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, The John M O'Quinn Foundation.
- Where is The Sydnor Olga Oden Foundation based?
- The Sydnor Olga Oden Foundation is based in TX.
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