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Renee L McGuire Foundation at a glance

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Renee L McGuire Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Religion$246kEducation$58kYouth Development$28kArts & Culture$12kCrime & Legal$5kPhilanthropy$3kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
$3,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$522k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Live Ear Ministries$25,500
Global Prison Seminaries Foundation$25,052
Community of Faith Bible Church$13,000
Champion Kids Camp Foundation$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Paul Trip Ministries Inc$4,500
Fogiven Ministries Inc$3,500
Team Focus Ministries$2,500
Fellowship for the Performing Arts Inc$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors$1,000
Alvin Bible Church$948
Hillsdale College$100
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 (FY22–22, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%Less Than The Least Ministries: $500 → 14%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

MI
NY
IN
PA
CO
NE
MO
KS
TN
NC
LA
TX
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 38% of Renee L McGuire Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Renee L McGuire Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 42% 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$313k · 11 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
16

Total granted

$313k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
0%

Still filing today

55%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • GP
    GLOBAL PRISON SEMINARIES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2025 · $175k · revenue +44%
  • LE
    LIVE EAR MINISTRES
    3× · 2022–2025 · $47k · revenue +15%
  • PT
    PAUL TRIPP MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • DB
    DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue +18%
  • U
    USPC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • HA
    Houston Area Pastor Council
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Hope for All in Jesus Prison Outreach

Christian church services in the prison system

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2
New Hope Mission

Offering christian education degree and non-degree programs to prision inmates.

Unclassified
3
Garfield Prison Chaplain Ministry

Ministry

Religion
4
Prison Chapel Ministries of East Tx

Build chapel for prison ministry

Religion
5
Grace Without Borders Ministries

Minister the gospel of jesus christ in correctional facilities

Religion
6
Prison in the Wild Inc

Provide ministry to inmates

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7
Prison Fellowship International

To transform the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims through a global network of ministry partners.

Crime & Legal
8
Act 13 Christian Ministries

Acts 13 christian ministries is dedicated to fulfilling the command of our lord jesus christ to spread the gospel among the unsaved, and strengthen the church-at-large through the proclamation of much-needed, yet often neglected, truths…

Religion
9
Heart of Texas Foundation College of Ministry

The heart of texas foundation college of ministry takes the gospel of jesus christ into the darkest of places in the texas prison system through our bachelor degree program, which educates men and women with long-term prison sentences.…

Human Services
10
Brotherhood Prison Ministries Inc

Provide religious services for prisioners

Religion
11
Grateful Shepherd Ministries

Training pastors and leaders in christian faith

Religion
12
Jim Fullingim Ministries Inc

Religious evangelism

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Prison Seminaries Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Texas Prison Outreach. 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

15 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. 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLOBAL PRISON SEMINARIES FOUNDATION: $175,052 · ReligionGLOBAL PRISON SEMINARIES FOUNDATIONPAUL TRIPP MINISTRIES INC: $11,000 · ReligionPAUL TRIPP MINISTRIES INC+3 more: $10,500 · Religion+3 moreChampion Kids Camp Foundation: $28,000 · OtherChampion Kids Camp Foundat…COMMUNITY OF FAITH BIBLE CHURCH INC: $17,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY OF FAITH BIBLE C…Team Focus Ministries: $10,000 · OtherTeam Focus MinistriesIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · OtherBIBLICAL COUNSELING MINIST…Fogiven Ministries Inc: $3,500 · Other+13 more: $15,398 · Other+13 moreLIVE EAR MINISTRES: $46,500 · EducationLIVE EAR MINISTRESDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $11,259 · EducationDALLAS BAPTIST UNIV…+2 more: $1,600 · EducationFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROWNVILLE CONCERT SERIES INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $1,500 · PhilanthropyLESS THAN THE LEAST MINISTRIES INC: $500 · Human ServicesANGLETON AREA CRIMESTOPPERS INC BRAZORIA COUNTY CRIME STOPPERS INC: $500 · Crime & Legal
Religion$196,552Other$83,898Education$59,359Arts & Culture$11,000Philanthropy$1,500Human Services$500Crime & Legal$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLOBAL PRISON SEMINARIES FOUNDATION: $175,052 over 2y, 21% of budgetLIVE EAR MINISTRES: $46,500 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $11,259 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL TRIPP MINISTRIES INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINNOVATIVE MISSION OPPORTUNITIES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetFORGIVEN MINISTRY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTexas Prison Outreach: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Coastal Cattlewomen: $1,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROWNVILLE CONCERT SERIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLESS THAN THE LEAST MINISTRIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetANGLETON AREA CRIMESTOPPERS INC BRAZORIA COUNTY CRIME STOPPERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $100 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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Renee L McGuire Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Renee L McGuire Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%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 · 0–30%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Renee L McGuire Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Renee L McGuire 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 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-PF 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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