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The Gonsoulin Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
66
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$212k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$1.9MHuman Services$1.1MHealth$906kEducation$570kInternational$160kFood & Nutrition$160kCrime & Legal$115kArts & Culture$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $933k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $1.9M
$25,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUR LADY OF WISDOM CATHOLIC CHURCH$212,000
JAARS INC$200,000
ST JOSEPH ABBEY$120,000
ST MARY'S RESIDENTIAL TRAINING SCHOOL$115,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
FRANCISCAN LIFE CENTER$100,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$100,000
THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY$100,000
THE RESTORATION TEAM$100,000
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BEAUMONT$100,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA$100,000
ST LAURENCE CATHOLIC SCHOOL$60,000
SERAPHIC ADORERS OF THE CHILD JESUS$50,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE GALVESTON-HOUSTON$50,000
ST VINCENT DEPAUL SEMINARY$50,000
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 (FY20–25, $318k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 DIOCESE OF CHARLOTTE: $25k → 12%THENSTED CENTER: $50k → 28%REDM INC: $25k → 16%THENSTED CENTER: $35k → 28%CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $50k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $30k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $20k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $28k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $20k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $15k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $10k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $5k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $5k → 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
NY
IA
PA
CT
CA
MO
MD
NM
KS
TN
NC
LA
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 63 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

63 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
21

Total granted

$6.7M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+10%

Still filing today

46%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $524k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • FL
    FRANCISCAN LIFE CENTER NETWORK INCORPORATED
    6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +32%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $250k · revenue +24%
  • The Brookwood Community Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $170k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • CH
    CARE HELP OF SULPHUR INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +32%
  • MO
    MISSIONARIES OF LASALETTE
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • SL
    ST LOUIS KING OF FRANCE CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $150k
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
Christus Foundation for HealthCare

CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare is dedicated to extending the healing ministry of Jesus Christ, continuing the legacy of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word through the promotion of health and welfare to…

Health
2
Christus Health Foundation of Southeast Texas

Christus health foundation of southeast texas serves the philanthropic needs of christus health southeast texas by soliciting and distributing contributions in support of christus health southeast texas.

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3
The Methodist Hospital

To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.

Health
4
Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston

See Schedule OThe Society of St. Vincent de Paul (the Society) provides services to support the mission of enhancing the quality of life for all people and helping them work toward living self-sufficient, dignified lives. Assistance may…

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5
Memorial Hermann Health System

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
6
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
7
Trees for Houston

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

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8
Healing Hands Ministries Inc

Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.

Health
9
The Methodist Hospital Foundation

Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…

Health
10
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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11
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth

A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
12
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston; the most unlike its peers is Great Age Movement. 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

44 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. 44 of the 96 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
23/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT JOSEPH ABBEY AND SEMINARY COLLEGE: $607,192 · OtherSAINT JOSEPH ABBEY AND SEMINARY COLLEGEFRANCISCAN LIFE CENTER NETWORK INCORPORATED: $600,000 · OtherFRANCISCAN LIFE CENTER NETWORK INCORPORATEDOUR LADY OF WISDOM CATHOLIC CHURCH: $412,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF WISDOM CATHOLIC CHURCHST LAURENCE CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $279,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA INC: $270,000 · OtherCARE HELP OF SULPHUR INC: $250,000 · OtherMISSIONARIES OF LASALETTE: $250,000 · OtherST MARYS RESIDENTIAL TRAINING SCHOOL: $245,000 · Other+64 more: $3,599,885 · Other+64 moreWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $100,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesTHENSTED CENTER: $85,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $82,500 · Human ServicesREDM INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte: $25,000 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $90,000 · HealthGratia Plena: $75,000 · HealthTHE SPLIT SECOND FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · HealthBlue Cure Foundation: $60,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $30,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $21,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $2,500 · HealthThe Brookwood Community Inc: $170,000 · EducationTHE ARBOR SCHOOL: $45,000 · EducationUniversity of St Thomas: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationJAARS INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementJEFF PINO FOUNDATION FKA ARIZONA HISTORIC AIRCRAFT: $100,000 · Arts & CultureLone Star Flight Museum: $80,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc: $145,000 · Civil Rights
Other$6,513,577Human Services$657,500Health$358,500Education$235,000Community Improvement$200,000Arts & Culture$200,000Civil Rights$145,000

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 budgetFRANCISCAN LIFE CENTER NETWORK INCORPORATED: $600,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARE HELP OF SULPHUR INC: $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetJAARS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $170,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc: $145,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMISSION OF HOPE: $100,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetJEFF PINO FOUNDATION FKA ARIZONA HISTORIC AIRCRAFT: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe Restoration Team: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHENSTED CENTER: $85,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $82,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLone Star Flight Museum: $80,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGratia Plena: $75,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPLIT SECOND FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBlue Cure Foundation: $60,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHO-YEH CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute: $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ARBOR SCHOOL: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMEDICAL MISSIONARIES OF DIVINE MERCY: $40,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTRIVIUM LIFE SERVICES: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREDM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCatholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSON OF A SAINT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTerrebonne Historical & Cultural Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE FUND FOR TEACHERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT AGE MOVEMENT: $2,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetExchange Club of Sugar Land: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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 FRANCISCAN LIFE CENTER NETWORK INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CARE HELP OF SULPHUR INC ↗
  • Who funds JAARS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
  • Who funds Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc ↗
  • Who funds MISSION OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds JEFF PINO FOUNDATION FKA ARIZONA HISTORIC AIRCRAFT ↗
  • Who funds The Restoration Team ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THENSTED CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Lone Star Flight Museum ↗
  • Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds Gratia Plena ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
  • Who funds THE SPLIT SECOND FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…The William Stamps Fa…Strake FoundationThe Zions Bancorporat…Union Pacific Foundat…Greater Houston Commu…The Medallion Foundat…MD Anderson FoundationHouston Endowment IncThe Brown Foundation …
Shell USA Company FoundationTX27.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report 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.

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 96 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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