· Public charity
United Way of Odessa Inc
Improve lives by mobilizing the power of our community to advance the common good through the annual campaign used to allocate funds to 15 partner agencies who provide services in the following areas improving peoples mental and physical health helping people of all ages achieve their potential and promote financial stability and…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $329k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Harmony Home CAC | $85,514 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Odessa | $80,417 |
| Catholic Charities | $58,129 |
| Odessa Day Nursery | $55,000 |
| Permian Basin Mission Center | $50,000 |
| Centers for Children and Families | $45,417 |
| Odessa Christmas in Action | $41,382 |
| Odessa LINKS | $36,500 |
| Salvation Army | $31,500 |
| CASA of the Permian Basin | $30,417 |
| Sharing Hands a Respite Experience | $23,416 |
| Girl Scouts of the Desert Southwest | $15,000 |
| Mission Center Adult Day Services | $12,416 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- HHHARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $805k · revenue +381%
- CFCENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $740k · revenue +62%
- OFODESSA FAMILY YMCA6× · 2017–2022 · $548k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- BTBUFFALO TRAIL COUNCIL INC BSA 567one grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +1%
- ACAGAPE CHRISTIAN SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
- EPEducation Partnership of the Permian Basinone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -30%
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.
Improving lives by providing exceptional and compassionate therapy services.
To improve housing conditions within Odessa, Texas through credit counseling, homebuyer education and home building/ rehabilitation programs that is affordable for low to moderate income residents.
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
To provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.
Christain Home
Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.
To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Community Services Odessa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Education Partnership of the Permian Basin. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 33 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ODESSA ↗
- Who funds HARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ODESSA CHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds ODESSA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ODESSA INC ↗
- Who funds Midland Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ODESSA DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ODESSA LINKS INC ↗
- Who funds Sharing Hands A Respite Experience Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BA ↗
- Who funds MISSION HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ODESSA FAMILY PATHWAYS ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF THE BIG BEND INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLANDODESSA AREA AIDS SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO TRAIL COUNCIL INC BSA 567 ↗
- Who funds ELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Education Partnership of the Permian Basin ↗
- Who funds KEEP ODESSA BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REFLECTION MINISTRIES OF TEXAS INC ↗
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: Permian Basin Area Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Junior League of Odessa Inc · United Way of Midland Inc · The Fasken Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Beal Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · JC Ferguson Foundation Inc
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 United Way of Odessa Inc 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.