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The Tony Ogden Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST CLARE OF ASSISI CATHOLIC CHURCH | $72,928 |
| PROJECT JOY AND HOPE | $14,000 |
| WEATHERFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| STAR OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| HOPE VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE | $10,000 |
| FEED THE CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| STCLAIRE OF ASSISI CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN RENEWAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| THE HEART OF TX FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON | $2,250 |
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- PJPROJECT JOY & HOPE FOR TEXAS6× · 2017–2022 · $69k · revenue +56%
- WCWEATHERFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL5× · 2017–2022 · $39k · revenue +89%
- CRCRC Retreat Partners Inc3× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- TATEXAS A&M - ASSOC OF FORMERone grant, 2019 · $14k
- TATEXAS A&Mone grant, 2021 · $13k
- HOHEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRYone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +20%
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.
The dynamic catholic mission is to re-energize the catholic church in america by developing world-class resources that inspire people to rediscover the genius of catholicism.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Inspired by adherence to the teachings of the Catholic Church to operate a facility used for retreats, workshops, camps, and worship for the educational and spiritual enrichment of the youth and young adults of Southeast Texas. Christ…
To make the catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the culture of universities. to enrich academic communities at the university of chicago, across the nation, and the world with the insights of catholic thought. to dialogue with…
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
The family research council's primary exempt purpose is to reaffirm and promote nationally, and particularly in washington, dc, the traditional family unit and the judeo-christian value system upon which it is built. frc's activities in…
Our mission is to advocate and pray for womens ordination as deacons, priests, and bishops into an inclusive and accountable roman catholic church.
Provided over 3500 catholic men to listen to speakers to motivate and educate attendees on topics relating to living life bolding as a catholic. the conferences focus was on the role of the catholic man as a father and husband, although…
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star of Hope Mission and the most unlike its peers is Knights of Columbus 9708 Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 29 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 PROJECT JOY & HOPE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds WEATHERFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CRC Retreat Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds CATH LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS & CIVIL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 9708 COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Tony Ogden 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
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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