· Private foundation
Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of BROWNSVILLE FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH AND EDUCATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY | $70,000 |
| RIO GRANDE VALLEY PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $23,400 |
| TIP OF TEXAS FAMILY OUTREACH | $15,000 |
| GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER | $15,000 |
| ST JOSEPH ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE | $10,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE | $10,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP OF WOMEN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,845 |
| IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $8,000 |
| CAMERON COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS | $7,500 |
| SUNSHINE HAVEN | $6,672 |
| BIG HEROS | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
38 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- RGRIO GRANDE VALLEY PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $369k · revenue +89% · 25% of their budget
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC6× · 2018–2025 · $99k · revenue +108%
- CDCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD5× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- TSTEXAS SOUTHMOST COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $21k
- FEFRANCO-AMERICAN EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -55%
- ROREVIVAL OF CULTURAL ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue +67%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
CVWDB was founded to provide policy and program guidance for the workforce development and training programs and operate these programs in a manner that would create sustainable economic opportunities for all residents of the of the 13…
The mission of the Children's Museum of the Brazos Valley is to provide a child-centered, hands-on, interactive environment for learning and discovery.
The purpose of Planned Parenthood South Texas ("the Organization") is to provide family planning and sexual healthcare services to both adults and teenagers, with particular emphasis on serving low-income and medically underserved…
To provide quality services and products to the residents and businesses of our community in such a way as to maximize the affordability of safe and decent housing, especially for the low income; and to serve as a vehicle and assist in any…
To provide community, life-long learning, and meaningful work for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
To address the critical issues of youth such as school attendance, literacy, job preparedness and school violence. During the year the organization served four school districts.
At Communities In Schools of Laredo, Inc., we surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
The organization's mission is to support the purposes of texas neighborhood services which exists to seek and manage various federal and state grant programs and other programs with the purpose of eliminating poverty.
To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County
It is the mission of Texans for Vaccine Choice Education Foundation to provide information to the public regarding vaccine benefits and risks, and toinform the public about vaccine choice rights in the state of Texas. Our goal is to…
To provide a place for children to go where they will have supervised activities, arts, crafts, and recreation.
To provide quality services and products to the residents and businesses of our communities in such a way as to maximize the affordability of safe and decent housing, especially for the low income; and to serve as a vehicle and assist in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southern Cameron County and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 54 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds RIO GRANDE VALLEY PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD ↗
- Who funds BTX ART LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMERON COUNTY EDUCATION INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds TIP of Texas Family Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Friendship of Women Inc ↗
- Who funds PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds CAMERON COUNTY CHILDREN ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds BROWNSVILLE LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANCO-AMERICAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation · Rio Grande Valley Philanthropic Foundation · Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation · Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation · Rotary Club of Brownsville Charitable Foundation · Rotary Club of Brownsville Sunrise Texas USA Inc · United Way of Southern Cameron County · Serafy Foundation · Jules D Gosseaux Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · Hernandez Foundation · The Roy F & Joann Cole Mitte 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 Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education 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.
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.