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St Albert Trust

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$333k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$140k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$756kCommunity Improvement$203kReligion$120kCivil Rights$49kSocial Science$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $320,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $332,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,500 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $240k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILIES EMPOWERED$140,000
MAGNOLIA SCHOOL$100,000
ST JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH$40,000
SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS$40,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Seton Education Partners: $25k → 11%WOODLAWN FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $200k → 17%SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $40k → 28%Center for Opportunity Urbanism: $45k → 16%BECKET FUND: $10k → 14%Center for Opportunity Urbanism: $35k → 16%CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITY URBANISM: $30k → 16%Center for Opportunity Urbanism: $25k → 16%CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITY URBANISM: $8k → 16%MAGNOLIA SCHOOL: $100k → 16%MAGNOLIA SCHOOL: $15k → 16%Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory School of Houston: $32k → 16%CRISTO REY JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $31k → 16%Texas Right to Life Committee Educational Fund: $20k → 16%Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory School of Houston: $29k → 16%TEXAS RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $10k → 16%ST JOHN XXIII INC: $10k → 16%ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $20k → 16%ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $10k → 16%FAMILIES EMPOWERED: $60k → 16%Texas Right to Life Committee Educational Fund: $9k → 16%Texas Education Works: $25k → 16%ST JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $40k → 16%ST JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 16%ST JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 16%FAMILIES EMPOWERED: $140k → 16%FAMILIES EMPOWERED: $15k → 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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 9 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$1.1M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-32%
+26%

Still filing today

44%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsReligionSocial ScienceOther
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

  • SE
    SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS
    3× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +776%
  • FE
    FAMILIES EMPOWERED
    3× · 2022–2024 · $215k · revenue -38%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITY URBANISM
    5× · 2017–2023 · $178k · revenue -47%

Funded once

  • WF
    WOODLAWN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -8%
  • TE
    TEXAS EDUCATION WORKSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +26%
  • TB
    The Becket Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +26%
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
St Peter Catholic

St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.

Education
2
Chesterton Academy of Fort Worth

To inspire and influence the culture in Fort Worth by joyfully engaging our students with the classics, which are the foundation of Western civilization and point to the most important historical even of humanity, the Incarnation of our…

Education
3
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
4
The Woodlands Christian Academy

TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…

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5
Veritas Christian Acadamy of Houston

Veritas is an independent Christian school in the classical tradition that prepares students for lives of service and learning through academic excellence character development biblical literacy and intentional engagement opportunities.

Education
6
Chesterton Academy of Rochester

To partner with parents to raise a generation of joyful leaders and saints, educated in the classical, liberal arts tradition and the truths of the Catholic faith. Students will abound in the skills and character requisite for success in…

Education
7
The Cambridge School of Dallas

The Cambridge School of Dallas was formed in 2001 and is a college preparatory, non-denominational christian school established for the purpose of providing academic excellence in a christ-centered environment.

Education
8
St John's School

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…

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9
The Canterbury Episcopal School

The Canterbury Episcopal School provides a rigorous education in the humanities, arts, social and natural sciences for students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. The faculty encourages Canterbury students to explore and examine a…

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10
Chesterton Academy of Milw Inc

An education with a rigorous classical curriculum taught through the lens of the Catholic faith.

Education
11
Wellington Christian Academy Inc

Operate a private school.

Education
12
Westminster School Inc

To provide the opportunity for a superior elementary and middle school education based on exceptionally high curricula and standards.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seton Education Partners; the most unlike its peers is Center for Opportunity Urbanism. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITY URBANISM: $177,500 · OtherCENTER FOR OPPORTUNITY URBANISMCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF HOUSTON INC: $126,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF HOUSTON IN…UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $70,000 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCECATHOLIC DIOCESE OF GALVESTON- HOUSTON: $30,000 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF GALVESTON- HOUSTONFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: $20,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherFAMILIES EMPOWERED: $215,000 · EducationFAMILIES EMPOWEREDInstitute for Girls Education Inc DBA Magnolia School: $115,000 · EducationInstitute for Girls Education Inc D…TEXAS EDUCATION WORKS: $25,000 · EducationTEXAS EDUCATION WORKSSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $265,000 · PhilanthropySETON EDUCATION PARTNERSTEXAS RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $49,000 · Civil RightsWOODLAWN FOUNDATION: $25,000 · ReligionThe Becket Fund: $10,000 · Social Science
Other$433,500Education$355,000Philanthropy$265,000Civil Rights$49,000Religion$25,000Social Science$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $265,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILIES EMPOWERED: $215,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCENTER FOR OPPORTUNITY URBANISM: $177,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetInstitute for Girls Education Inc DBA Magnolia School: $115,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTEXAS RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $49,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWOODLAWN FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES EMPOWERED ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITY URBANISM ↗
  • Who funds Institute for Girls Education Inc DBA Magnolia School ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAWN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS EDUCATION WORKS ↗
  • Who funds The Becket Fund ↗

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…The HydroPhilanthropy…Charity Guild of Cath…Scanlan FoundationMarek Family Foundati…Strake FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX22× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The HydroPhilanthropy Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Scanlan Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 St Albert Trust?

    Find your warmest path to St Albert Trust 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 13 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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