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Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston
Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston (Texas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,742,043 to it, the largest being The Houston Food Bank ($3,174,034). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston does
Mission
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 include food, clothing, furniture, rent, utility, transportation, medical, emotional and spiritual support. The ultimate goal is to meet emergency or basic needs, keeping families together by preventing homelessness and promoting self-sufficiency through our programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Basic Needs/Food Network:Basic Needs/Food Network helps households who may have to choose between staying housed and feeding their families. We have 14 pantries that provide basic food staples and necessities that help people weather times of crisis and regain stability. Those in need can acquire other resources specific to their demographic such as essential household necessities and clothing.
$7,008,145 spentof which $6,700,577 as grants51% of program spendingHomelessness Prevention/Vincentian Services: Homelessness Prevention/Vincentian services involves providing emergency financial assistance with rent, utilities, medical, transportation and other needs to prevent homelessness. Key to this is the personal encounter between our Vincentian volunteers and the family experiencing a crisis, which is often conducted through a home visit. It is in these encounters that we listen and learn the true needs of the family, provide financial assistance to address their needs, and render emotional and spiritual support to humanize the experience. Continued on Schedule O. In our ministry we learn to identify the issues critical to people living in poverty while raising awareness so communities and elected representatives can develop strategies aimed at reducing or eliminating poverty.
$5,400,692 spentof which $4,718,190 as grants39% of program spendingUnderserved Communities: The Underserved Communities Initiative includes a grant funding program with the goal to create healthy and vibrant Conferences serving at-risk and distressed areas of Galveston-Houston. This program was designed utilizing the Distressed Communities Index (DCI) tool, which contains seven metrics to capture distinct aspects of economic distress -- education, housing, unemployment, employment instability, poverty rate, income ratio, and business growth. Often these communities have the greatest need but are limited in resources. This program is intended to build both human and financial capacity in areas that have been historically forgotten. Continued on Schedule O. Financial assistance is provided by these Conferences to individuals needing assistance with housing, utilities, and other emergency assistance to prevent homelessness.
$1,018,922 spentof which $890,000 as grants7% of program spendingResiliency:The Resiliency program includes Bridges Out of Poverty and the nationally known "Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin-By World" (Getting Ahead). Phase I of the programs consist of a 16-week incentivized program that helps improve people's lives by assessing their own lives and circumstances and developing tools and skills as part of their move from crisis to self-sufficiency. Getting Ahead participants create their own plan to build more sustainable lives, healthy relationships with community members, short- and long-term goals, and step-by-step plans to achieve those goals. Once participants complete Phase I, they accelerate into Phase II, the Graduate program and are partnered with mentors to elevate their comprehension of financial budgeting and negotiation skills. Learning how to cope with daily life challenges and building the hope needed for a better future enables them to advance to the final phase, the Alumni program. Discovering how the right relationships can be a powerful aid to help people along the journey out of poverty, participants become ambassadors for the Society by becoming actively involved in sharing and promoting the success of the program as well as…
$258,928 spentof which $75,887 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,686,687.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $7.4M to $9.7M (+32%).
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: 2020 24% · 2021 20% · 2022 21% · 2023 12% · 2024 13% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 24 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $356k.
17 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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: $47k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Council of the US Society of St Vincent de Paul Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston raised.
From the IRS filings of Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 40% · 2019 42% · 2020 64% · 2021 36% · 2022 19% · 2023 14% — diversifying over time.
“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
58% of Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
100% of Society of St Vincent de Paul 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. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Organizations like Society of St Vincent de Paul 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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston?
- Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston (Texas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,742,043 to it, the largest being The Houston Food Bank ($3,174,034). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $10,742,043 in grants to Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston?
- The Houston Food Bank is the largest funder on record, with $3,174,034 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Society of St Vincent de Paul 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 46 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