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James and Sarah Mansour Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

James and Sarah Mansour Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$155k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$33k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$504kHuman Services$393kEducation$200kHealth$77kInternational$39kFood & Nutrition$28kPublic Benefit$18kArts & Culture$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $134,718, the rows itemized in this filing. The $154,718 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$501k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St. Theresa Catholic Church$32,500
Catholic Charities$20,000
PTEN Hamartoma Tumor Syndrome Foundation$15,000
Society of St. Vincent De Paul$10,600
Texas Public Policy Foundation$10,000
Friends of Israel Defense Forces$5,000
Encountering Christ-Diocese of Austin$5,000
Catholic Services Appeal$5,000
BIG Park Foundation$5,000
Focus on the Family$5,000
Moving Beyond Cancer Collaborative$5,000
Special Olympics Texas$5,000
CatholicVote Education Fund$2,500
Educational Media Foundation$2,500
Paul & Wadel Abide Memorial$2,000
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 (FY17–23, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%Hospice Austin: $6k → 10%Hospice Austin: $5k → 10%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $3k → 10%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $3k → 10%Wonders & Worries: $5k → 10%Wonders & Worries: $5k → 10%WONDERS & WORRIES: $3k → 10%WONDERS & WORRIES: $3k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
AZ
AR
NC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 33 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
48

Total granted

$1.0M
$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+9%

Still filing today

36%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
ReligionHealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationArts & 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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $211k · revenue +17%
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +202%
  • VA
    VERITAS ACADEMY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $38k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • ST
    ST THERESAS CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $69k
  • MI
    METANOIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +74%
  • AI
    Austin Institute
    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
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
2
Catholic Answers Inc

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…

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3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
Greater Austin Christian Foundation

Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.

Religion
5
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
6
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
7
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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8
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
9
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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10
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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11
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Hungry Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Johnson Center for Child Health & Development Inc. 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

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 93 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/45
Grantees still filing
28/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST THERESA CATHOLIC CHURCH: $322,379 · OtherST THERESA CATHOLIC CHURCHCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $211,497 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN: $72,200 · OtherTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTINST THERESAS CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $68,500 · OtherST THERESAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $63,500 · OtherST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL+56 more: $364,914 · Other+56 moreMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $27,565 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · ReligionPROVERBS 31 MINISTRY INC: $6,500 · ReligionLigonier Ministries Inc: $4,400 · ReligionTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $2,556 · ReligionIMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC: $2,500 · Religion+2 more: $2,990 · ReligionVERITAS ACADEMY: $38,000 · EducationTHE STEVE AZAR ST CECILIA FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationPTEN HAMARATOMA SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthMoving Beyond Cancer Collaborative: $15,000 · HealthTexas Reach Out Inc: $2,500 · HealthDYNAMI FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthAUSTIN RECOVERY INC: $2,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 · HealthTWIST OUT CANCER: $1,500 · HealthHOSPICE AUSTIN: $15,500 · Human ServicesWonders & Worries Inc: $15,451 · Human ServicesTRUCARE NETWORK: $5,000 · Human ServicesHONDURAS GOOD WORKS: $1,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,500 · Human Services+1 more: $952 · Human ServicesALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL: $12,400 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $5,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $4,580 · InternationalAUSTIN SAMARITANS: $1,500 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalMETANOIA INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,102,990Religion$56,511Education$43,000Health$40,000Human Services$39,903International$23,980Arts & Culture$17,500

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 budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $211,497 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN: $72,200 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetVERITAS ACADEMY: $38,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $27,565 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE AUSTIN: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWonders & Worries Inc: $15,451 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPTEN HAMARATOMA SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMETANOIA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMoving Beyond Cancer Collaborative: $15,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL: $12,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVERBS 31 MINISTRY INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Institute: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILBURN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUCARE NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHP BAPTIST SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $4,580 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLigonier Ministries Inc: $4,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ABILITY EXPERIENCE: $3,431 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $2,556 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Reach Out Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetC2 CHANGE: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE STEVE AZAR ST CECILIA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDYNAMI FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAUSTIN RECOVERY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $1,605 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN SAMARITANS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHONDURAS GOOD WORKS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWIST OUT CANCER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW LIFE MINISTRIES: $1,490 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamford University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $952 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmigos de las Americas: $500 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds VERITAS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds Wonders & Worries Inc ↗
  • Who funds PTEN HAMARATOMA SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds METANOIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Moving Beyond Cancer Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds ALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROVERBS 31 MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds MILBURN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds TRUCARE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS 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.

Austin Community Foun…Servant FoundationRaymond James Charita…United Way WorldwideCommunity Foundation …American Endowment Fo…Texas Instruments Fou…Shell USA Company Fou…Christian Community F…Renaissance Charitabl…Natl Christian Charit…Greater Houston Commu…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · United Way Worldwide · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · American Endowment Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Greater Houston Community 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 James and Sarah Mansour Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James and Sarah Mansour Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 James and Sarah Mansour Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to James and Sarah Mansour Foundation 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 93 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $102k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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