Charity Guild of Catholic Women
Legal name: Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760388350
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7135290995
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Women's Service Clubs
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,218,621
- Expenses
- $1,105,502
- Assets
- $7,904,053
- Liabilities
- $134,480
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Frances Gary (President)
- Sandy Walker (President-Elect)
- Ellen Goodrich (1st Vice President)
- Margaret Henrikson (2nd Vice President)
- Kathy Archer (3rd Vice President)
- Shelley Starr (4th Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Frances Gary (President)
- Sandy Walker (President-Elect)
- Ellen Goodrich (1st Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To sanctify Guild members and practice charity by rendering assistance to children in need in the greater Houston area, regardless of race or creed. The Charity Guild of Catholic Women is an organization of 576 women from 71 parishes in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. The Guild looks to the future while honoring the past, from the needlework and monetary donations of 59 committed women in 1922 to the present time with 610 volunteers, many of whom work in the shop, and many who serve in one or more of the 25 committees available to members. The sanctification of members and assisting children in need remains our mission. Members volunteered 89,441 hours in 2020-2021 even with the Charity Guild Shop being closed the first 3 months in our calendar year. These volunteer hours provide 96% of the labor force in the shop and also represen.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Charity Guild is comprised of members who fulfill specific service requirements with respect to the purposes and activities of the Guild. The Charity Guild Shop, staffed almost entirely by volunteers, provides consignment-for-sale and donation opportunities to individuals. The funds raised in the shop along with contributions sustain the organization and provide for grants to non-profit organizations that serve low income children. In fiscal year 2024-2025, the Guild provided $820,600 in grants to children's charities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 82% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.4%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $750.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 92%; rating input score 92; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.3%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.15; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $999K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 27 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $125K reported
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 61 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 61 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.