· Private foundation
John T Shea Charitable Foundation Xxxxx4009
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN (DBA ARMS WIDE) | $10,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES INC | $10,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES OF FORT BEND | $7,980 |
| BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CDCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $71k · revenue +4%
- TWThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston6× · 2018–2024 · $42k · revenue +92%
- TWTHE WOMEN'S HOME2× · 2020–2021 · $7k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- ESEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +44%
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.
Child Advocacy
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.
Child Advocates of Montgomery County empowers vulnerable children through volunteer advocacy and strengthens their family and community with education, so they can flourish in a safe, nurturing environment.
Recruit, train and supervise volunteers to advocate for abused, neglected and abandoned children placed in foster homes. CASA volunteers ensure children's best interests remain the priority and their needs met while working to establish a…
Training and supporting quality volunteers who speak out for the best interest of abused and neglected children in court in an effort to find each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
Provide children representation before the judicial system
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Provide a voice in a court for abused and neglected children through volunteer court and appointed advocates.
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.
Court Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children
Child and family advocacy related to abuse
The childrens advocacy center of hidalgo county, inc. provides services to abused children. services include on-site referrals for medical services. the organization follows up with authorities on efforts against the perpetrators of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northwest Assistance Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 CASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds The Women's Resource of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Junior League of Houston Inc · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Texas Center for Child and Family Studies · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 John T Shea Charitable Foundation Xxxxx4009 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.