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BBVA Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8.0M
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.

Philanthropy$1.8MArts & Culture$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.3MEducation$697kHuman Services$489kCivil Rights$418kHealth$143kOther$0
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $1,549,213 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,044,018 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,494,805 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$1,549,213
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PNC Foundation$1,549,213
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PNC Foundation: $1.5M → 11%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
Housing Channel

Revitalize distressed neighborhoods in Tarrant County and throughout Texas communities in need and increase the amounts of decent, affordable housing available to lower income families and individuals with special needs.

Housing & Shelter
2
Austin Affordable Housing Corporation

To ensure and preserve quality, affordable housing opportunities for low- to moderate-income families in austin as well as provide financial literacy and homeownership opportunities.

Housing & Shelter
3
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
4
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…

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5
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise

Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…

Housing & Shelter
6
Fort Worth Community Land Trust

The Fort Worth Community Land Trust (FWCLT) was created to provide relief to the poor and distressed and combat community deterioration. Specifically, FWCLT will create, steward and preserve a permanent supply of safe, secure, and…

Housing & Shelter
7
Central Houston Civic Improvement Inc

Central houston civic improvement lnc.'s mission is to ensure the continued vitality and to support development of downtown and the central city that is critical to the continued health and growth of houston.

Community Improvement
8
California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified
9
Hacienda Community Development Corporation

Hacienda is a latino community development corporation that strengthens families by providing affordable housing, homeownership spuport, economic advancement, and educational opportunties.

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10
Housing Plus

Innovatively utilize resources to preserve & create quality affordable multi-family housing committed to fulfilling individual housing needs and stabilize neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
11
Central Houston Inc

See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.

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12
Housing Forward

Housing forward leads in the development and implementation of an effective homeless response system to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in dallas and collin counties.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loveland Habitat for Humanity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pnc Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%1%<5yr12%5%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr21%29%20–35yr16%34%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr21%26%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr16%38%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%4/425
the rest of the field
8%
764/9,481

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

412 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 412 of the 512 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
122
Early backer (in before they grew)
402/412
Grantees still filing
307/412
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PNC FOUNDATION — $1,549,213 · OtherPNC FOUNDATIONAvenue — $326,000 · OtherAvenue+102 more — $2,125,839 · Other+102 moreTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $1,175,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE AR…Houston Symphony Society — $98,715 · Arts & CultureHouston Symphony Soci…+7 more — $154,760 · Arts & Culture+7 moreNATIONAL COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT COALITION INC — $100,000 · Community ImprovementMONTGOMERY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementBUSINESS AND COMMUNITY LENDERS OF TEXAS — $45,600 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · Community ImprovementWOODLAWN UNITED INC — $30,000 · Community ImprovementLIFTFUND INC — $24,640 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA CAPITAL SMALL BUSINESS FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $24,520 · Community ImprovementTHE CATALYST CENTER FOR BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $22,980 · Community ImprovementTHE GREENLINING INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Community ImprovementFLORIDA COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementBIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Community Improvement+17 more — $186,120 · Community ImprovementWEALTH WATCHERS INC — $108,440 · Housing & ShelterDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $75,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD — $39,500 · Housing & ShelterTEXAS STATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION — $22,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER BIRMINGHAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $20,000 · Housing & Shelter+19 more — $218,325 · Housing & ShelterKIPP Texas Inc — $237,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationBUILDINGCOMMUNITYWORKSHOP — $25,000 · EducationA G Gaston Business Institute — $20,000 · EducationSTANISLAUS BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC — $19,000 · Education+11 more — $134,300 · EducationAustin Area Urban League — $55,000 · Human ServicesBirmingham Urban League Inc — $35,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP MISSION INC — $21,060 · Human ServicesBakerRipley — $20,000 · Human ServicesALABAMA ASSET BUILDING COALITION — $20,000 · Human ServicesTREC COMMUNITY INVESTORS — $17,500 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD RECOVERY COMMUNIT DEVELOPMENT CORP — $15,000 · Human ServicesARIZONA HOUSING COALITION — $15,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM — $14,800 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS OF WEST ALABAMA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCredit Coalition Inc — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $7,500 · Human ServicesCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Civil Rights
Other$4,001,052Arts & Culture$1,428,475Community Improvement$573,860Housing & Shelter$533,265Education$460,800Human Services$280,860Civil Rights$200,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetPNC FOUNDATION — $1,549,213 over 1y, 45% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $1,175,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKIPP Texas Inc — $237,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWEALTH WATCHERS INC — $108,440 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT COALITION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHouston Symphony Society — $98,715 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIDOSUS — $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $80,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTRELLIS — $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $75,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetABILITY HOUSING INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $55,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetAustin Area Urban League — $55,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMONTGOMERY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetInnovation Depot Inc — $48,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBUSINESS AND COMMUNITY LENDERS OF TEXAS — $45,600 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREV BIRMINGHAM INC — $40,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD — $39,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSYSTEM FOR EDUCATION EMPOWERMENT AND SUCCESS — $37,260 over 1y, 21% of budgetHEART OF TEXAS GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC — $37,120 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBirmingham Urban League Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetQuality of Life Foundation of Austin Inc — $31,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS ENERGY POVERTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $27,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $26,020 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBUILDINGCOMMUNITYWORKSHOP — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLIFTFUND INC — $24,640 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA CAPITAL SMALL BUSINESS FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $24,520 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CATALYST CENTER FOR BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $22,980 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTEXAS STATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION — $22,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP MISSION INC — $21,060 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCouncil on Foundations Inc — $20,149 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOY TO LIFE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetA G Gaston Business Institute — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BALDWIN COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GREENLINING INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFLORIDA COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER BIRMINGHAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% 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.

Wells Fargo FoundationThe Zions Bancorporat…Mufg Union Bank Found…Texas State Affordabl…Cadence Bank Foundati…Protective Life Found…National Association …Charles Schwab Founda…Susan Mott Webb Chari…The Daniel Foundation…Comerica Charitable F…Truist Foundation Inc
Wells Fargo FoundationMN75.6× affinity83 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wells Fargo Foundation · The Zions Bancorporation Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation · Cadence Bank Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders · Charles Schwab Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc

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 BBVA Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to BBVA Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to BBVA Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 512 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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