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Faith Charities Inc at a glance

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Faith Charities Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$134k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$54k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Religion$590kHuman Services$319kEducation$75kHealth$67kPhilanthropy$6kHousing & Shelter$6kYouth Development$2k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
$15,188
Median grant
1
States reached
$163k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FULLNESS OF TRUTH$53,750
SOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY$21,000
ST FRANCIS DE PAULA CATHOLIC CHURCH$16,575
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC$15,188
MAGNOLIA SCHOOL$11,500
ST JOSEPH ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH$9,700
GRACEWOOD$5,500
PREGNANCY CENTER OF THE COASTAL BEND$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC MUSIC INITIATIVE INC: $10k → 5%THE ALEXANDER HOUSE: $18k → 16%MAGNOLIA SCHOOL: $23k → 16%ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CENTER: $5k → 22%ST FRANCIS DE PAULA CATHOLIC CHURCH: $19k → 27%FAMILY MISSIONS COMPANY: $5k → 21%CATHOLIC MUSIC INITIATIVE INC: $5k → 5%THE ALEXANDER HOUSE: $9k → 16%MAGNOLIA SCHOOL: $20k → 16%ST FRANCIS DE PAULA CATHOLIC CHURCH: $17k → 27%THE ALEXANDER HOUSE: $4k → 16%MAGNOLIA SCHOOL: $12k → 16%OUR LADY OF CORPUS CHRISTI: $26k → 17%ST FRANCIS DE PAULA CATHOLIC CHURCH: $16k → 27%MAGNOLIA SCHOOL: $10k → 16%OUR LADY OF CORPUS CHRISTI: $10k → 17%ST FRANCIS DE PAULA CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10k → 27%ST JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION: $8k → 16%OUR LADY OF CORPUS CHRISTI: $5k → 17%OUR LADY OF CORPUS CHRISTI: $5k → 17%OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE: $33k → 17%OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE: $31k → 17%FULLNESS OF TRUTH: $63k → 16%OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE: $31k → 17%FULLNESS OF TRUTH: $57k → 16%OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE: $29k → 17%FULLNESS OF TRUTH: $55k → 16%OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE: $19k → 17%FULLNESS OF TRUTH: $54k → 16%FULLNESS OF TRUTH: $50k → 16%FULLNESS OF TRUTH: $17k → 16%FULLNESS OF TRUTH: $15k → 16%GRACEWOOD: $6k → 16%MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5k → 17%GRACEWOOD: $5k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC: $19k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC: $19k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC: $15k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC: $15k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC: $13k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC: $11k → 17%SISTERS OF SAINT ANN: $10k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC: $9k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC: $7k → 17%SOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY: $42k → 17%SOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY: $23k → 17%SOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY: $21k → 17%OUR PATH FORWARD: $13k → 17%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 24% of Faith Charities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 60%.

Faith Charities Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 39% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 21 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$1.0M
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+67%

Still filing today

57%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FO
    FULLNESS OF TRUTH
    7× · 2018–2024 · $309k · revenue +86%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +2%
  • IF
    Institute for Girls Education Inc DBA Magnolia School
    4× · 2021–2024 · $64k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • SM
    ST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH COLLEGE STATION TEXAS
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • FM
    FAMILY MISSIONS COMPANY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.

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Divine Mercy Ministries Inc

Divine Mercy Ministries, Inc. is a Christian maternity home for women 18 years of age and older facing unexpected pregnancies. Open to women of all faiths, it provides a loving and nurturing environment to meet the spiritual, physical,…

Religion
2
Mother Teresa Shelter Inc

To provide comprehensive, community-based outreach services to homeless individuals and families, by creating opportunities that will help break the cycle of homelessness.

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3
Agnus Dei Foundation

The mission of AGNUS DEI FOUNDATION (ADF) is to impact the culture of life by being a champion for adoption as an alternative to abortion or single parenting for women in crisis.

Human Services
4
Catholic Crisis Pregnancy Center of Dallas

Non-profit charity counseling center

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5
Celestial Ministries

To increase the quality of life for individuals and families that live in a single parent homes. 50

Human Services
6
Action for Life Inc

Action for life promotes, upholds, and supports efforts to protect the sanctity of life from conception to natural death through education, advocacy, and prayer as well as by supporting traditional family values.

Civil Rights
7
Christian Life Ministries

Counsel beleivers who are in need of spiritual and mental healing. bring non believers the good news of the gospel of grace. educate others on how to counsel through the word of god. provide seminars and conferences to enhance christian…

Human Services
8
The Catholic Guy Inc

To proclaim the gospel around the world by leading people to encounter jesus christ and personally connect with his church.

Religion
9
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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10
Christian Family Services Inc

"religion that god our father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." james 1:27ff (bible) cfs therefore operates for the purpose of…

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11
The Children of the Father Foundation

Evangelizing & distribution of literature for the roman catholic church

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12
Patris Corde Hermitage

Patris corde hermitage (the organization) is organized for charitable, religious, and educational purposes. the name patris corde is latin for: with a father's heart. the organization will offer a space for people to visit to strengthen…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Missions Company; the most unlike its peers is Natural Womanhood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE: $143,223 · OtherOUR LADY OF GUADALUPECATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC: $107,618 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INCSOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY: $88,375 · OtherSOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITYST FRANCIS DE PAULA CATHOLIC CHURCH: $61,338 · OtherST FRANCIS DE PAULA CATHOLIC CHURCHOUR LADY OF CORPUS CHRISTI RETREAT CENTER: $45,500 · OtherOUR LADY OF CORPUS CHRISTI RETREAT CENTERTHE ALEXANDER HOUSE: $33,500 · OtherTHE ALEXANDER HOUSEST JOSEPH ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $31,450 · OtherTHE TONY FOUNDATION: $30,400 · OtherSISTERS OF SAINT ANN: $21,816 · Other+20 more: $46,465 · Other+20 moreFULLNESS OF TRUTH: $309,250 · ReligionFULLNESS OF TRUTHTHE JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION FOR LIFE AND FAMILY: $16,750 · ReligionCATHOLIC MUSIC INITIATIVE INC: $15,000 · Religion+2 more: $5,500 · ReligionInstitute for Girls Education Inc DBA Magnolia School: $64,000 · EducationVocation Ministry: $7,000 · Education+1 more: $600 · EducationTONY LAUDADIO FOUNDATION: $11,000 · PhilanthropyCONCERTS FOR HOPE: $5,500 · PhilanthropyGRACEWOOD INC: $10,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE ARK ASSESSMENT CENTER AND EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR YOUTH: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterCORPUS CHRISTI PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $4,000 · HealthREPLAY FOR KIDS: $2,694 · Health
Other$609,685Religion$346,500Education$71,600Philanthropy$16,500Housing & Shelter$13,000Health$6,694

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFULLNESS OF TRUTH: $309,250 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC: $107,618 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetInstitute for Girls Education Inc DBA Magnolia School: $64,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION FOR LIFE AND FAMILY: $16,750 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC MUSIC INITIATIVE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTONY LAUDADIO FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetGRACEWOOD INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVocation Ministry: $7,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCONCERTS FOR HOPE: $5,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILY MISSIONS COMPANY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI HOPE HOUSE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREPLAY FOR KIDS: $2,694 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE ARK ASSESSMENT CENTER AND EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR YOUTH: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL WOMANHOOD: $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREACH MINISTRIES: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 FULLNESS OF TRUTH ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC ↗
  • Who funds Institute for Girls Education Inc DBA Magnolia School ↗
  • Who funds THE JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION FOR LIFE AND FAMILY ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC MUSIC INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds TONY LAUDADIO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRACEWOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds Vocation Ministry ↗
  • Who funds CONCERTS FOR HOPE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY MISSIONS COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds REPLAY FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds THE ARK ASSESSMENT CENTER AND EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL WOMANHOOD ↗

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.

Strake FoundationThe John G and Marie …Shell USA Company Fou…Scanlan FoundationCelanese FoundationBehmann Brothers Foun…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Christus HealthMarek Family Foundati…Ed Rachal FoundationCoastal Bend Communit…Albert & Ethel Herzst…
Strake FoundationTX25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Strake Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Scanlan Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Behmann Brothers Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Christus Health · Marek Family Foundation · Ed Rachal Foundation · Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation

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 Faith Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Faith Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Faith Charities Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Faith Charities Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 43 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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