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St Paul's United Methodist Foundation of Houston

To provide financial support to St.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$810k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Religion$6.2MHuman Services$178kInternational$165kHousing & Shelter$69kFood & Nutrition$56kYouth Development$37kHealth$15kEducation$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $925,931, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,147,262 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $221,331 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
  • $250k+1 grant · $810k
$14,100
Median grant
2
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY22–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Wesley Community Center: $19k → 16%Houston's Amazing Place: $5k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $5k → 16%Houston's Amazing Place: $5k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $5k → 16%FAM Intentional Community: $5k → 16%Main Street Ministries Houston: $5k → 16%FAM Intentional Community: $5k → 16%Sojourn Landing: $23k → 16%The Landing: $10k → 16%Sojourn Landing: $10k → 16%Neighbors in Action: $9k → 16%Holly Hall: $5k → 16%LIFE Houston: $7k → 16%LIFE Houston: $7k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 17 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
8

Total granted

$6.7M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+6%

Still filing today

76%
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
Human ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • EA
    EMERGENCY AID COALITION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $76k · revenue +16%
  • SL
    Sojourn Landing DBA The Landing
    3× · 2022–2024 · $43k · revenue +37%
  • IA
    Iconoclast Artists
    4× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • TA
    Texas Annual Conference
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • NI
    Neighbors In Action Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +6%
  • MO
    MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST AND LIFE CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
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
Rebuilding Together Houston

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…

Housing & Shelter
2
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
3
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

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.

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4
West Street Recovery

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Memorial Assistance Ministries

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.

Human Services
6
South Central Houston Action Council Inc

The organization provides medical services in the form of primary and preventive care to underserved and underinsured residents of harris county.

—
7
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

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…

Philanthropy
8
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

—
9
Interfaith Hospitality Network of Colorado Springs

To provide assistance to families experiencing housing instability.

Human Services
10
Alamo Area Mutual Housing Association

To provide housing for low to moderate income families and to create a community environment that promotes resident education, self-sufficiency, leadership, and volunteerism

Housing & Shelter
11
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
12
Houston Area Parkinson Society

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Beacon of Downtown Houston; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 25 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Paul's United Methodist Church: $6,208,491 · OtherSt Paul's United Methodist Church+9 more: $256,592 · OtherSojourn Landing DBA The Landing: $42,500 · Human ServicesWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $29,000 · Human ServicesLOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGENCIES: $13,400 · Human ServicesHouston's Amazing Place Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAM INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY: $10,000 · Human ServicesNeighbors In Action Inc: $9,250 · Human ServicesHolly Hall: $5,000 · Human ServicesMain Street Ministries Houston: $5,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY AID COALITION: $76,000 · Food & NutritionHOUSE OF PEACE BETH SHALOM INC: $22,512 · InternationalBENEVOLENT MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $12,800 · InternationalIconoclast Artists: $34,500 · Youth DevelopmentThe Restoration Team: $32,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHOUSTON REVISION: $10,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$6,465,083Human Services$124,150Food & Nutrition$76,000International$35,312Youth Development$34,500Public Safety & Disaster$32,000Crime & Legal$15,000

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 budgetEMERGENCY AID COALITION: $76,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetSojourn Landing DBA The Landing: $42,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetIconoclast Artists: $34,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetThe Restoration Team: $32,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $29,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSE OF PEACE BETH SHALOM INC: $22,512 over 4y, 12% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $13,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGENCIES: $13,400 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBENEVOLENT MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $12,800 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHouston's Amazing Place Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUM ARMY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOUSTON REVISION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAM INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNeighbors In Action Inc: $9,250 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHolly Hall: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMain Street Ministries Houston: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON: $5,000 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.

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.

Permanent Endowment F…Baxter Trust Co Priva…Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…Hildebrand FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Houston Endowment IncIsla Carroll Turner F…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…The Powell FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…The Junior League of …
Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist ChurchTX28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Paul's United Methodist Foundation of Houston funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from St Paul's United Methodist Foundation of Houston. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 25 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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