Texas · Private foundation
The Gonsoulin Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $212,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 56
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations The Gonsoulin Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $689k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 66 | $2.9M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $2.0M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $972k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $700k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $712k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Joseph Abbey and Seminary College | $607,192 | 6 | n/a |
| Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated | $600,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities of Acadiana Inc | $270,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Care Help of Sulphur Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 11% |
| St Marys Residential Training School | $245,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Jaars Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Brookwood Community Inc | $170,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc | $145,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Mission of Hope | $100,000 | 1 | 69% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Gonsoulin Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Strake Foundation · The Zions Bancorporation Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Medallion Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Gonsoulin Charitable Trust
- How much does The Gonsoulin Charitable Trust give?
- The Gonsoulin Charitable Trust reported 66 grants totaling $2,853,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 56 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Gonsoulin Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Human Services (21%), Health (17%).
- Who are The Gonsoulin Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Saint Joseph Abbey and Seminary College ($607k), Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated ($600k), Catholic Charities of Acadiana Inc ($270k).
- Does The Gonsoulin Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gonsoulin Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gonsoulin Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company.
- Where is The Gonsoulin Charitable Trust based?
- The Gonsoulin Charitable Trust is based in TX.
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