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CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,953,114 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ($98,580,703). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $96M
- Funders on record
- 155
- Grants received
- $147M
- Net assets
- $58M
What Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston does
Mission
Guided by god's love, catholic charities helps people in southeast texas by providing caring, compassionate services and advocating for social justice in collaboration with parishes and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Strengthening family services assists individuals and families who are currently struggling to access adequate food, clothing, and long-term housing as well as financial assistance. In addition, families and individuals are able to maintain stable homes through financial assistance for rent and utilities, and thousands of families receive emergency food assistance through a network of food pantries. The financial impact of covid-19 has been significant in this area over the past several years resulting in a significant increase in the need for food, financial, and rental assistance.
$17,077,760 spentof which $8,911,633 as grants20% of program spendingImmigration and refugee services provides help to government-approved refugees to become self-sufficient by providing education, housing, food, financial assistance, cultural orientation, job development, and family reunification services. The agency provides a range of legal services, including education, assessment, counseling, representation and advocacy for immigrants, refugees and victims of human trafficking, and other violent crimes. St. Frances cabrini center for immigration legal assistance is dedicated to providing high quality, low-cost, and pro bono legal services to immigrants and refugees who would otherwise not be able to obtain legal representation. The arrival of afghan refugees increased refugee assistance in fiscal years 2025 and 2024.
$57,325,270 spentof which $31,644,405 as grants68% of program spendingNurturing and caring for children services assists young parents and their families during pregnancy and the baby's first five years of life by providing medical referrals, education, counseling services, parenting, and life skills coaching. The agency provides a nurturing home environment for unaccompanied refugee children and youth in the homes of foster families where they are provided with education, medical care, life skills, english classes, ongoing family tracing, and legal assistance. In addition, the agency works with the u.s. Office of refugee resettlement to reunite children, who have entered the country lacking proper documentation and have been detained by immigration offices, with relatives in the u.s. Or in their country of origin.
$9,459,243 spentof which $733,647 as grants$1,270,384 earned by the program11% of program spendingDisaster relief and response provides support to all those in need with a priority focus on low-income populations, including seniors and those living at or below the poverty line in the wake of disasters such as floods and hurricanes. The agency provides a variety of disaster recovery services including:-distribution of donated goods such as household items, cleaning items, grocery and gas cards, diapers, etc.;-intakes and needs assessments for disaster victims ;-basic needs services such as food distribution, temporary and emergency shelter assistance, rental assistance, and medication assistance;-home repair assistance;-relocation and furniture/household good replacements;-short-term and long-term case management, including assistance with registering for and receiving federal disaster assistance and other assistance programs; and-mental health services for victims of disaster.
$384,274 spentof which $295,512 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $84,246,547.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $37M to $50M (+33%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 67% · 2018 34% · 2019 75% · 2020 56% · 2021 84% · 2022 89% · 2023 82% · 2024 80% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Cynthia Colbert
President/CEO
Board chair
Alicia Reggie Freysinger
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 47 funders to 60 funders, grant income rose $4.7M → $42M.
34 of 155 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare). These are real filings, and they are not money CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON raised.
From the IRS filings of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 155 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 36% · 2019 29% · 2020 22% · 2021 25% · 2022 69% · 2023 88% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
39% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $84.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$69.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$12.8M
- Department of Homeland Security$2.3M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston · exempt
- Catholic Charities Community Development Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,953,114 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ($98,580,703). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON have?
- IRS filings report 155 organizations giving $146,953,114 in grants to CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON, 83 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH is the largest funder on record, with $98,580,703 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 155 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing