· Public charity
St Paul's United Methodist Foundation of Houston
To provide financial support to St.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 95% of St Paul's United Methodist Foundation of Houston’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $925,931 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,147,262 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $221,331 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
- $250k+1 grant · $810k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Paul's United Methodist Church | $809,923 |
| The Restoration Team | $22,000 |
| SEARCH Homeless Services | $20,000 |
| Wesley Community Center | $19,000 |
| General Board of Global Ministries | $14,100 |
| Emergency Aid Coalition | $12,500 |
| St Paul's School | $12,008 |
| The Landing | $10,000 |
| Benevolent Missions International | $6,400 |
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 (FY22–24, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SLSojourn Landing DBA The Landing3× · 2022–2024 · $43k · revenue +37%
- IAIconoclast Artists4× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +73%
- TRThe Restoration Team3× · 2022–2024 · $32k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- TATexas Annual Conferenceone grant, 2021 · $10k
- NINeighbors In Action Incone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +6%
- MOMINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST AND LIFE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $7k
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.
Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…
Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
West Street Recovery's mission is to connect communities to the resources they need to rebuild after climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey and build resilient, secure, and stronger communities.
MAM partners with hardworking Houstonians to build stable lives and hope-filled futures. Through education, training, and community connection, we enhance economic mobility and holistic health across the region.
The organization provides medical services in the form of primary and preventive care to underserved and underinsured residents of harris county.
See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
To provide assistance to families experiencing housing instability.
To provide housing for low to moderate income families and to create a community environment that promotes resident education, self-sufficiency, leadership, and volunteerism
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
The mission of the Houston Area Parkinson Society is to use a whole-human approach to community building, which reduces the fear and isolation associated with a Parkinson's diagnosis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Beacon of Downtown Houston and the most unlike its peers is House of Peace Beth Shalom Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 EMERGENCY AID COALITION ↗
- Who funds Sojourn Landing DBA The Landing ↗
- Who funds Iconoclast Artists ↗
- Who funds The Restoration Team ↗
- Who funds WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF PEACE BETH SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGENCIES ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON REVISION ↗
- Who funds Houston's Amazing Place Inc ↗
- Who funds FAM INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds UM ARMY INC ↗
- Who funds Neighbors In Action Inc ↗
- Who funds Holly Hall ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
- Who funds Main Street Ministries Houston ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON ↗
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: Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Church · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Hildebrand Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Houston Endowment Inc · Isla Carroll Turner Friendship Trust · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Powell Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Junior League of Houston Inc
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 St Paul's United Methodist Foundation of Houston 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.