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Guill Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Guill Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$4.2MPhilanthropy$1.5MHealth$1.2MYouth Development$1.1MCommunity Improvement$900kHuman Services$895kRecreation & Sports$720kEmployment$440kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$75,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,470,000
HOUSTON CHILDREN'S CHARITY$220,000
ETOILE ACADEMY INC$200,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$200,000
KIDS' MEALS$200,000
BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY$150,000
CAMP FOR ALL FOUNDATION$125,000
SPARK$120,000
WORKTEXAS TRAINING CENTER$100,000
BRENDA AND JOHN H DUNCAN RISE SCHOOL OF HOUSTON$100,000
HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE$85,000
CAMP ARANZAZU INC$85,000
NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS INC$80,000
PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM$75,000
EMPOWERING WOMEN OUT OF PRISON$75,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CAMP ARANZAZU INC: $85k → 17%CAMP ARANZAZU INC: $85k → 17%CAMP ARANZAZU: $85k → 17%WORKTEXAS TRAINING CENTER: $100k → 16%CAMP ARANZAZU: $75k → 17%WORK TEXAS TRAINING CENTER: $100k → 16%CAMP ARANZAZU: $75k → 17%WORKTEXAS TRAINING CENTER: $100k → 16%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE: $85k → 16%WORK TEXAS TRAINING CENTER: $80k → 16%WORK TEXAS TRAINING CENTER: $60k → 16%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE: $60k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $75k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $75k → 16%TEEN & FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 16%TEEN & FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 16%TEEN & FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 16%KIDS' MEALS: $200k → 16%KIDS' MEALS: $125k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 33 repeat orgs$222k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
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Total granted

$10M
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+286%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • The Brookwood Community Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +96%
  • Camp For All Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $820k · revenue +547%
  • EA
    ETOILE ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $615k · revenue ×25

Funded once

  • CI
    COMP-U-DOPT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $107k · revenue +286%
  • JF
    JOHN FONTAINE JR CHARITY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • TR
    THE RIVERSIDE PROJECT (FOSTERING FAMILY)
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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2
Made Houston

MADE Houston was formed to create a school community focused on nurturing and developing the unique academic and social needs of students with learning differences and to successfully transition students into mainstream schools.

Education
3
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
4
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
5
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy
6
Collaborative for Children

The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.

Human Services
7
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
8
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
9
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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10
Illumination Education Inc

Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) provides a safe and challenging learning environment that cultivates students' academic and artistic excellence.

Education
11
Houston Area Parkinson Society

The mission of the Houston Area Parkinson Society is to use a whole-human approach to community building, which reduces the fear and isolation associated with a Parkinson's diagnosis.

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12
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance. 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

31 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. 31 of the 40 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)
31/31
Grantees still filing
25/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Brookwood Community Inc: $1,150,000 · EducationThe Brookwood Community IncETOILE ACADEMY INC: $615,000 · EducationETOILE ACADEMY INCTexas A&M Foundation: $573,000 · EducationTexas A&M FoundationEMERGE Fellowship: $320,000 · EducationEMERGE FellowshipNeighborhood Schools Inc: $280,000 · EducationNeighborhood Schools IncARCHWAY ACADEMY: $275,000 · EducationARCHWAY ACADEMYBreakthrough Houston: $270,000 · EducationBreakthrough HoustonThe Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston: $200,000 · Education+2 more: $177,000 · EducationPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $480,000 · Human ServicesPRISON ENTREPRENEURS…Work Texas Training Center: $440,000 · Human ServicesWork Texas Training …Camp Aranzazu Inc: $405,000 · Human ServicesCamp Aranzazu IncKIDS' MEALS INC: $325,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INCTeen & Family Services: $300,000 · Human ServicesTeen & Family Servic…Houston's Amazing Place Inc: $145,000 · Human ServicesHouston's Amazing Pl…GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,470,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTO…HOUSTON CHILDREN'S CHARITIES: $360,000 · OtherHOUSTON CHILDREN'S CHARI…BRENDA & JOHN DUNCAN RISE SCHOOL: $325,000 · OtherBRENDA & JOHN DUNCAN RIS…CANDLE LIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER: $235,000 · OtherCANDLE LIGHTERS CHILDHOO…Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance: $150,000 · OtherCandlelighters Childhood…SPARK PROGRAM INC: $95,000 · OtherCOMBINED ARMS: $85,000 · OtherPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $335,000 · OtherPROJECT SUNSHINE INCHope and Healing Center & Institute: $325,000 · OtherHope and Healing Center …SPARK: $315,000 · OtherSPARKCombined Arms: $125,000 · Other+7 more: $150,226 · Other+7 moreCamp For All Foundation: $820,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMPOWERING WOMEN OUT OF PRISON INC: $325,000 · Crime & LegalHOUSTON REVISION: $230,000 · Crime & LegalHOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $420,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Education$3,860,000Human Services$2,095,000Philanthropy$1,470,000Other$2,500,226Youth Development$835,000Crime & Legal$555,000Community Improvement$430,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,470,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $1,150,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $820,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetETOILE ACADEMY INC: $615,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $573,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $480,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetWork Texas Training Center: $440,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetHOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $420,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCamp Aranzazu Inc: $405,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $335,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute: $325,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetEMPOWERING WOMEN OUT OF PRISON INC: $325,000 over 5y, 60% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $325,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEMERGE Fellowship: $320,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSPARK: $315,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTeen & Family Services: $300,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetNeighborhood Schools Inc: $280,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetARCHWAY ACADEMY: $275,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetBreakthrough Houston: $270,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetHOUSTON REVISION: $230,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetThe Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston: $200,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCandlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance: $150,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHouston's Amazing Place Inc: $145,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCombined Arms: $125,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC: $107,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSPARK PROGRAM INC: $95,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFAMILIES EMPOWERED: $70,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSharpen Recovery: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetREMIND: $40,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPROUNITAS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOSTERING FAMILY: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% 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 GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
  • Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ETOILE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds Work Texas Training Center ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Camp Aranzazu Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT SUNSHINE INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope and Healing Center & Institute ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWERING WOMEN OUT OF PRISON INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERGE Fellowship ↗
  • Who funds SPARK ↗
  • Who funds Teen & Family Services ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds ARCHWAY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Breakthrough Houston ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON REVISION ↗
  • Who funds The Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston ↗
  • Who funds Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance ↗
  • Who funds Houston's Amazing Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds Combined Arms ↗
  • Who funds COMP-U-DOPT INC ↗
  • Who funds SPARK PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES EMPOWERED ↗
  • Who funds Sharpen Recovery ↗
  • Who funds REMIND ↗
  • Who funds PROUNITAS INC ↗
  • Who funds FOSTERING FAMILY ↗

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Brown Foundation …Shell USA Company Fou…Marek Family Foundati…Houston Endowment IncThe John M O'Quinn Fo…Baxter Trust Co Priva…The Powell FoundationThe Elkins FoundationHarry S & Isabel C Ca…The William Stamps Fa…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX40.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · The Powell Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The William Stamps Farish Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Guill Family Foundation 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 40 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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