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Scanlan Foundation

To promote the catholic faith and practices in texas by supporting catholic religious, educational & charitable activities in texas.

$5.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
77
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$516k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$18MEducation$9.2MHuman Services$2.2MHealth$1.6MHousing & Shelter$291kCrime & Legal$143kArts & Culture$115kRecreation & Sports$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$35,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$260M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 BEAUMONT$170,000
DIOCESE OF AMARILLO$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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTH: $30k → 11%LA POSADA PROVIDENCIA: $30k → 23%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTH: $20k → 11%GABRIEL PROJECT OF THE CROSSROADS: $10k → 16%LA POSADA PROVIDENCIA: $20k → 23%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTH: $20k → 11%LA POSADA PROVIDENCIA: $20k → 23%SOMASCAN FRS ORDER OF ST JEROME AEMILIAN: $10k → 16%LA POSADA PROVIDENCIA: $20k → 23%LA POSADA PROVIDENCIA: $15k → 23%SOMASCAN FRS ORDER OF ST JEROME AEMILIAN: $5k → 16%GUADALUPE COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 16%GUADALUPE COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - SA: $10k → 16%GUADALUPE COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 16%CASA JUAN DIEGO: $56k → 16%CASA JUAN DIEGO: $50k → 16%CASA JUAN DIEGO: $50k → 16%CASA JUAN DIEGO: $40k → 16%CASA JUAN DIEGO: $20k → 16%CATHOLIC PREGNANCY HELP CENTER: $10k → 16%CATHOLIC PREGNANCY HELP CENTER: $10k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $170k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $155k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $123k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $110k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $105k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $100k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $50k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $50k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $11k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $11k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
OH
CA
CO
MD
LA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31M · 143 repeat orgs$831k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

143
40

Total granted

$31M
$638k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+41%

Still filing today

43%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    6× · 2019–2024 · $925k · revenue +71%
  • SD
    ST DOMINIC VILLAGE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $854k · revenue +13%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON
    6× · 2019–2024 · $778k · revenue +186%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARYS CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • AS
    ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY EX-STUDENTSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +49% · 27% of their budget
  • SM
    ST MARY'S SEMINARY
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
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
Servants of Mary
Religion
2
Czech Catholic Foundation of Texas
Religion
3
Christ Central Camp

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…

Religion
4
Hermanas del Carazon de Jesus Sacramentado

To provide pastoral ministries in the San Diego County Hispanic community.

Religion
5
Loyola University

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…

Education
6
Christus St Vincent Medical Group

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…

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7
Schoenstatt Movement of San Antonio

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…

Religion
8
Cristo Rey Jesuit Houston Foundation

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…

Education
9
Pro Ecclesia Sancta of California

The foundation was organized to promote spiritual formation and priesthood vocations for the catholic church.

Religion
10
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic School Incorporated

Pre-K, Elementary and Jr High School

Education
11
Keep the Faith Inc

Keep the faith is a catholic lay apostolate devoted to assist in the dissemanation of good catholic doctrine

Religion
12
Filipino Cursillos in Christianity La
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley; 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.
04the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 193 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/86
Grantees still filing
64/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF GALVESTON- HOUSTON: $3,946,263 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF GALVESTON- HOUSTONROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LUBBOCK TEXAS: $1,171,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIO: $1,010,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF BEAUMONT: $955,000 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BROWNSVILLE: $940,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF EL PASO PASTORAL CENTER: $890,000 · OtherST DOMINIC VILLAGE: $854,030 · OtherDIOCESE OF AMARILLO: $845,000 · Other+128 more: $13,829,334 · Other+128 moreSt Peter Catholic: $1,250,000 · EducationSt Peter Catho…University of St Thomas: $925,138 · EducationUniversity of …NORTH HOUSTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $400,000 · EducationNORTH HOUSTON …Vocation Ministry: $286,517 · EducationVocation Minis…SAN JUAN DIEGO CATHOLIC REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL: $220,000 · EducationSAN JUAN DIEGO…O CONNELL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $160,000 · Education+12 more: $812,000 · Education+12 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $777,500 · Human ServicesCASA JUAN DIEGO: $216,400 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $122,045 · Human ServicesLa Posada Providencia: $105,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $70,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRINGS VILLAGE INC: $60,000 · Human Services+4 more: $80,000 · Human ServicesGratia Plena: $350,000 · HealthCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $151,800 · HealthMagnificat Houses Inc: $110,000 · HealthHOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE: $95,240 · HealthMERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO: $50,000 · HealthCHI ST LUKE'S HEALTH BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE MEDICAL CENTER: $45,000 · HealthST LUKE'S FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthAUSTIN RECOVERY INC: $35,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthLA PROMESA FOUNDATION: $165,842 · ReligionPARADISUS DEI INC: $152,375 · ReligionTHE JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION FOR LIFE AND FAMILY: $122,500 · ReligionFULLNESS OF TRUTH: $85,040 · ReligionCRC Retreat Partners Inc: $69,000 · ReligionOakton Foundation Inc: $55,000 · ReligionSouthmore Foundation Inc: $30,000 · Religion+9 more: $108,122 · ReligionCATHOLIC LITERARY ARTS: $114,582 · Arts & CultureMexican American Catholic College Inc: $95,000 · Arts & CultureThe Texas State Historical Association: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCharity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc: $200,000 · Community Improvement
Other$24,440,627Education$4,053,655Human Services$1,430,945Health$882,040Religion$787,879Arts & Culture$217,082Community Improvement$200,000

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 budgetSt Peter Catholic: $1,250,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $925,138 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetST DOMINIC VILLAGE: $854,030 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $777,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSociety of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston: $406,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH HOUSTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $400,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetGratia Plena: $350,000 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetVocation Ministry: $286,517 over 6y, 23% of budgetCASA JUAN DIEGO: $216,400 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCharity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetLA PROMESA FOUNDATION: $165,842 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetO CONNELL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetSHALOM CENTER INC: $160,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetPARADISUS DEI INC: $152,375 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $151,800 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWitness To Love Marriage Prep Renewal Ministry: $146,721 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetUniversity of Dallas: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION FOR LIFE AND FAMILY: $122,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $122,045 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFather Yermo Schools Capital: $120,000 over 3y, 19% of budget40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $115,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $115,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCATHOLIC LITERARY ARTS: $114,582 over 5y, 26% of budgetTHE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL INC: $110,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMagnificat Houses Inc: $110,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLa Posada Providencia: $105,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetHOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE: $95,240 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetMexican American Catholic College Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFULLNESS OF TRUTH: $85,040 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetSt Anthony Catholic High School: $80,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES- DIOCESE OF TYLER: $75,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetOUR LADY OF THE HILLS CATHOLIC HIGH: $70,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCRC Retreat Partners Inc: $69,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetChristian New Creation Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDIOCESAN MIGRANT & REFUGEE SERVICES INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINCARNATE WORD HIGH SCHOOL: $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWELLSPRINGS VILLAGE INC: $60,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetCRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIO: $57,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOakton Foundation Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSt Mary's University: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS MINISTRIES: $52,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetTexans For Parental Choice in Education: $50,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetMERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO: $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCHI ST LUKE'S HEALTH BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE MEDICAL CENTER: $45,000 over 2y, 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 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 ↗

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.

The John G and Marie …Strake FoundationHarry S & Isabel C Ca…Marek Family Foundati…Charity Guild of Cath…Greater Houston Commu…Albert & Ethel Herzst…State Council Chariti…Raskob Foundation for…Koch Foundation IncThe Carl a Davis and …John and Charlene OSh…
The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial FoundationTX141.8× affinity79 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Scanlan Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Scanlan 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 193 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 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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