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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…

$565k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$86k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$4.4MCrime & Legal$1.7MYouth Development$1.4MFood & Nutrition$530kEducation$306kHealth$176kHousing & Shelter$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $236k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $329k
$41,382
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Sharing Hands a Respite Experience: $41k → 14%Odessa Family YMCA: $119k → 16%Sharing Hands a Respite Experience: $40k → 14%Odessa Family YMCA: $99k → 16%Sharing Hands a Respite Experience: $39k → 14%Odessa Family YMCA: $92k → 16%Sharing Hands a Respite Experience: $36k → 14%Odessa Family YMCA: $86k → 16%Sharing Hands a Respite Experience: $35k → 14%Odessa Family YMCA: $81k → 16%Sharing Hands a Respite Experience: $34k → 14%Odessa Family YMCA: $72k → 16%Sharing Hands a Respite Experience: $31k → 14%Centers for Children and Families: $62k → 16%Centers for Children and Families: $61k → 16%Centers for Children and Families: $45k → 16%Centers for Children and Families: $140k → 16%Centers for Children and Families: $105k → 16%Centers for Children and Families: $97k → 16%Centers for Children and Families: $93k → 16%Centers for Children and Families: $78k → 16%Catholic Charities: $76k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $67k → 16%Odessa Day Nursery: $65k → 16%Catholic Charities: $60k → 16%Odessa Day Nursery: $60k → 16%Centers for Children and Families: $60k → 16%Catholic Charities: $58k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $58k → 16%Catholic Charities: $55k → 16%Odessa Day Nursery: $55k → 16%Catholic Charities: $53k → 16%Catholic Charities: $52k → 16%Catholic Charities: $50k → 16%Odessa LINKS: $50k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $50k → 16%Catholic Charities: $48k → 16%Catholic Charities: $47k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $45k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $42k → 16%Odessa LINKS: $40k → 16%Odessa LINKS: $37k → 16%Odessa LINKS: $37k → 16%Odessa LINKS: $36k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $35k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $33k → 16%Odessa LINKS: $32k → 16%Permian Basin Mission Center: $31k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.6M · 25 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
7

Total granted

$8.6M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
0%

Still filing today

84%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HH
    HARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $805k · revenue +381%
  • CF
    CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $740k · revenue +62%
  • OF
    ODESSA FAMILY YMCA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $548k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • BT
    BUFFALO TRAIL COUNCIL INC BSA 567
    one grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +1%
  • AC
    AGAPE CHRISTIAN SERVICES
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • EP
    Education Partnership of the Permian Basin
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -30%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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2
Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center

Improving lives by providing exceptional and compassionate therapy services.

Health
3
Panhandle Behavioral Services Inc
Health
4
Odessa Affordable Housing Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

Human Services
6
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
7
Eastland County Crisis Center Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Christian Home of Pecos

Christain Home

Crime & Legal
9
Lone Star Casa Inc

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…

Civil Rights
10
Central Texas Children's Home

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.

Human Services
11
Casa of Williamson County Texas

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.

Crime & Legal
12
Bluebonnet Childrens Center

To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Community Services Odessa Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $805,269 · Human ServicesHARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INCCENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $740,471 · Human ServicesCENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INCODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $547,813 · Human ServicesODESSA FAMILY YMCACATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ODESSA INC: $498,185 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ODESSA INCODESSA DAY NURSERY: $430,844 · Human ServicesODESSA DAY NURSERYPERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER: $391,248 · Human ServicesPERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTERODESSA LINKS INC: $316,623 · Human ServicesODESSA LINKS INCSharing Hands A Respite Experience Inc: $309,402 · Human ServicesSharing Hands A Respite Experience Inc+2 more: $45,010 · Human ServicesODESSA CHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC: $593,949 · OtherODESSA CHRISTMAS IN ACTION INCMEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INC: $529,609 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INCMidland Rape Crisis Center Inc: $465,675 · OtherMidland Rape Crisis Center IncTHE SALVATION ARMY: $415,784 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYGirl Scouts of the Desert Southwest: $247,753 · OtherGirl Scouts of the Desert Southwe…ODESSA FAMILY PATHWAYS: $96,052 · Other+9 more: $228,095 · Other+9 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ODESSA: $995,212 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS C…CAMP FIRE WEST TEXAS: $113,053 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE WEST…CASA OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC: $423,095 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BA: $273,000 · EducationBYNUM SCHOOL: $26,678 · Education+1 more: $6,338 · EducationMISSION HEALTH CARE INC: $135,169 · HealthELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $12,623 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$4,084,865Other$2,576,917Youth Development$1,108,265Civil Rights$423,095Education$306,016Health$135,169Arts & Culture$12,623

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ODESSA: $995,212 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetHARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $805,269 over 9y, 15% of budgetCENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $740,471 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetODESSA CHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC: $593,949 over 9y, 49% of budgetODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $547,813 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INC: $529,609 over 7y, 12% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ODESSA INC: $498,185 over 9y, 14% of budgetMidland Rape Crisis Center Inc: $465,675 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetODESSA DAY NURSERY: $430,844 over 9y, 8.2% of budgetCASA OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC: $423,095 over 9y, 24% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER: $391,248 over 9y, 14% of budgetODESSA LINKS INC: $316,623 over 9y, 17% of budgetSharing Hands A Respite Experience Inc: $309,402 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BA: $273,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetMISSION HEALTH CARE INC: $135,169 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetCAMP FIRE WEST TEXAS: $113,053 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetODESSA FAMILY PATHWAYS: $96,052 over 7y, 17% of budgetSAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $76,400 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF THE BIG BEND INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMIDLANDODESSA AREA AIDS SUPPORT INC: $28,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetBYNUM SCHOOL: $26,678 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBUFFALO TRAIL COUNCIL INC BSA 567: $22,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAGAPE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $7,500 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetEducation Partnership of the Permian Basin: $6,338 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITAN CENTER INC: $5,010 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREFLECTION MINISTRIES OF TEXAS INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Permian Basin Area Fo…Abell-Hanger Foundati…Helen Greathouse Char…Junior League of Odes…United Way of Midland…The Fasken FoundationScharbauer Foundation…Wayne & Jo Ann Moore …Beal FoundationYarborough FoundationPevehouse Family Foun…JC Ferguson Foundatio…
Permian Basin Area FoundationTX50.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Odessa Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Odessa Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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