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The Guild Shop of the Church of St John the Divine

To enrich the community as a Christian ministry and resale shop dedicated to awarding financial support to organizations that serve the elderly in need.

$622k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $227k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $386k
$31,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rebuilding Together Houston$101,000
Houston Food Bank$81,000
St Vincent's House$76,000
Interfaith Carepartners Inc$76,000
Turning Point Center$52,000
Houston's Amazing Place$36,000
Weekley Family YMCA$31,000
Vita Living$31,000
The Great Age Movement$30,000
Texas Ramp Project$25,000
Houston Area Parkinson's Society$21,000
CanCare Inc$21,000
The Council on Recovery$21,000
Camp Allen$11,000
The Church of St John the Divine$9,000
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%St Vincent's House: $76k → 14%Houston's Amazing Place: $36k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
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.

2
Hospitality Apartments

The Hospitality Apartments provide no-cost lodgingexcept for cleaning fee to out of town patients living greater than 50 miles from Houston receiving care from any of the hospitals in the Houston Medical Center.

3
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
4
Houston Aphasia Recovery Center

Houston Aphasia Recovery Center is recognized as the premier resource for those affected by aphasia. We are dedicated to supporting communication, generating awareness, facilitating research, and fostering wellness and recovery in a…

Human Services
5
Trees for Houston

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

6
Texas Non-Profit Hospice Alliance

The Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance (TNPHA) is a group of nonprofit hospices dedicated to sharing best practices and providing quality care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses.

Human Services
7
The Arc of Harris County

To promote wellness, enriching the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

8
Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More

See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…

Human Services
9
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center

The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.

Human Services
10
Forgotten Angels Inc

To provide quality care to children and adults with developmental disabilities in a safe, loving home environment where they are treated with respect, compassion, and dignity and provided the means, support, and encouragement to reach…

Human Services
11
Visiting Nurse Association of Texas

Established in 1934, vna helps older adults live with dignity and independence at home by providing in-home care, food and friendship for the ill, hungry, and homebound.

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Carepartners Inc and 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.

03the grantee network

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
1/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Houston Food Bank — $81,000 · OtherThe Houston Food BankCamp Allen Camp & Conference Center — $42,000 · OtherCamp Allen Camp & Conference Cent…VITA LIVING INC — $31,000 · OtherVITA LIVING INCHouston Area Parkinson Society — $21,000 · OtherHouston Area Parkinson SocietyTHE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE — $9,000 · OtherRebuilding Together Houston — $101,000 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together HoustonTURNING POINT CENTER — $52,000 · Housing & ShelterTURNING POINT CENTERTEXAS RAMP PROJECT — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterTEXAS RAMP PROJECTST VINCENTS HOUSE — $76,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENTS HOUSEHouston's Amazing Place Inc — $36,000 · Human ServicesHouston's Amazing Pl…INTERFAITH CAREPARTNERS INC — $76,000 · ReligionINTERFAITH CAREPA…CANCARE INC — $21,000 · ReligionCANCARE INCGREAT AGE MOVEMENT — $30,000 · HealthGREAT AGE…The Council on Recovery — $21,000 · HealthThe Counc…
Other$184,000Housing & Shelter$178,000Human Services$112,000Religion$97,000Health$51,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRebuilding Together Houston — $101,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $81,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH CAREPARTNERS INC — $76,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetST VINCENTS HOUSE — $76,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTURNING POINT CENTER — $52,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCamp Allen Camp & Conference Center — $42,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHouston's Amazing Place Inc — $36,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVITA LIVING INC — $31,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREAT AGE MOVEMENT — $30,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Council on Recovery — $21,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANCARE INC — $21,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHouston Area Parkinson Society — $21,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX22.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Isla Carroll Turner Friendship Trust · Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Cullen Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Prioleau Family Foundation

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 The Guild Shop of the Church of St John the Divine 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.

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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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