· Public charity
Scanlan Foundation
To promote the catholic faith and practices in texas by supporting catholic religious, educational & charitable activities in texas.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON | $516,463 |
| ST PETER CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIO | $275,000 |
| DIOCESE OF AUSTIN | $255,000 |
| DIOCESE OF BROWNSVILLE | $185,000 |
| DIOCESE OF LUBBOCK | $175,000 |
| DIOCESE OF AMARILLO | $170,000 |
| DIOCESE OF BEAUMONT | $170,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $155,936 |
| DIOCESE OF EL PASO | $155,000 |
| DIOCESE OF SAN ANGELO | $147,693 |
| DIOCESE OF LAREDO | $125,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON | $122,500 |
| DIOCESE OF TYLER | $120,000 |
| DIOCESE OF VICTORIA | $115,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
143 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 78 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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
- UOUniversity of St Thomas6× · 2019–2024 · $925k · revenue +71%
- SDST DOMINIC VILLAGE6× · 2019–2024 · $854k · revenue +13%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON6× · 2019–2024 · $778k · revenue +186%
Funded once
- SMST MARY'S SEMINARYone grant, 2023 · $40k
- SMST MARYS CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $40k
- ASANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY EX-STUDENTSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +49% · 27% of their budget
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.
Inspired by adherence to the teachings of the Catholic Church to operate a facility used for retreats, workshops, camps, and worship for the educational and spiritual enrichment of the youth and young adults of Southeast Texas. Christ…
To provide pastoral ministries in the San Diego County Hispanic community.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the charitable, scientific, and educational and religious purposes of advancing, promoting, and supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations which…
A movement that involves lay people, priests and religious; offers formation and spirituality in the catholic faith. our charism as a community might be summed up with these words: love of mary, love of the church, love of the mission of…
See Schedule OCristo Rey Jesuit Houston Foundation is a supporting organization for Jesuit Cristo Rey High School of Houston, Inc. (dba Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory School of Houston). A Catholic high school that inspires and…
The foundation was organized to promote spiritual formation and priesthood vocations for the catholic church.
Pre-K, Elementary and Jr High School
Keep the faith is a catholic lay apostolate devoted to assist in the dissemanation of good catholic doctrine
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley and the most unlike its peers is Waco 40 Days. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 77 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
86 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. 86 of the 193 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 St Peter Catholic ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds ST DOMINIC VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston ↗
- Who funds NORTH HOUSTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Gratia Plena ↗
- Who funds Vocation Ministry ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN DIEGO CATHOLIC REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CASA JUAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc ↗
- Who funds LA PROMESA FOUNDATION ↗
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: The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Marek Family Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · State Council Charities Knights of Columbus · Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · Koch Foundation Inc · The Carl a Davis and Lois E Davis Foundation · John and Charlene OShea Family 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 Scanlan Foundation 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.
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