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Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$273k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$824kPhilanthropy$607kEducation$480kArts & Culture$183kHuman Services$171kHousing & Shelter$155kYouth Development$90kAnimals$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$9,845
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY$70,000
RIO GRANDE VALLEY PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION$35,000
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$23,400
GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER$15,000
TIP OF TEXAS FAMILY OUTREACH$15,000
ST JOSEPH ACADEMY$10,000
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE$10,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$10,000
FRIENDSHIP OF WOMEN$10,000
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%OZANAM CENTER: $20k → 23%BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CEN: $15k → 23%OZANAM CENTER: $15k → 23%OZANAM CENTER: $5k → 23%BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC: $4k → 23%PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO: $21k → 23%PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO: $8k → 23%PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO: $5k → 23%SUNSHINE HAVEN: $13k → 23%SUNSHINE HAVEN: $10k → 23%SUNSHINE HAVEN: $7k → 23%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $17k → 23%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $15k → 23%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $10k → 23%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $7k → 23%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $5k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 38 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
10

Total granted

$2.6M
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+67%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RG
    RIO GRANDE VALLEY PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $369k · revenue +89% · 25% of their budget
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $99k · revenue +108%
  • CD
    COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD
    5× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • TS
    TEXAS SOUTHMOST COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $21k
  • FE
    FRANCO-AMERICAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -55%
  • RO
    REVIVAL OF CULTURAL ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue +67%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Concho Valley Workforce Development Board

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…

Employment
2
Childrens Museum of the Brazos Valley

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Planned Parenthood South Texas

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…

Health
4
Brazos Valley Affordable Housing Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
5
Brazos Employment Enterprises Dba the Bee Community

To provide community, life-long learning, and meaningful work for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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6
Communities in Schools of Cameron County

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Communities in Schools of Laredo Inc

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.

Community Improvement
8
Texas Neighborhood Services Education Fo

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.

Human Services
9
United Way of Brazoria County

To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County

Philanthropy
10
Texans for Vaccine Choice Education Foundation

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…

Civil Rights
11
Boys & Girls Clubs of Deep East Texas

To provide a place for children to go where they will have supervised activities, arts, crafts, and recreation.

Youth Development
12
Brazos Valley Cdc Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southern Cameron County; 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.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY SOUTH CAMERON CO: $595,000 · OtherUNITED WAY SOUTH CAMERON COUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $85,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEYBTX ART LEAGUE: $73,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherGUADALUPE REGIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL: $52,500 · Other+33 more: $656,997 · Other+33 moreRIO GRANDE VALLEY PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $369,000 · PhilanthropyRIO GRANDE VALLEY PHILANTHRO…UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY: $237,800 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMER…CAMERON COUNTY EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $51,000 · PhilanthropyCAMERON COUNTY EDUCATION INI…+1 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC: $59,212 · Human ServicesGood Neighbor Settlement House Inc: $53,080 · Human ServicesPROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC: $34,489 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE HAVEN INC: $29,172 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC: $98,568 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD: $95,615 · Housing & ShelterBROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $39,579 · HealthSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: $30,200 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Cameron County: $7,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5,000 · HealthVALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $31,216 · AnimalsVALLEY ZOOLOGICAL ENDOWMENT: $20,000 · Animals
Other$1,522,997Philanthropy$672,800Human Services$175,953Youth Development$98,568Housing & Shelter$95,615Health$82,279Animals$51,216

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIO GRANDE VALLEY PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $369,000 over 9y, 25% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY: $237,800 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC: $98,568 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD: $95,615 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBTX ART LEAGUE: $73,500 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetTHE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC: $59,212 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetGood Neighbor Settlement House Inc: $53,080 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCAMERON COUNTY EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $51,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetTIP of Texas Family Outreach Inc: $48,764 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetBROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $39,579 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS: $35,439 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFriendship of Women Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC: $34,489 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetVALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $31,216 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: $30,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSUNSHINE HAVEN INC: $29,172 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetIDEA Public Schools: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMERON COUNTY CHILDREN ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $21,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetVALLEY ZOOLOGICAL ENDOWMENT: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBROWNSVILLE LITERACY CENTER: $19,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetFRANCO-AMERICAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREVIVAL OF CULTURAL ARTS: $10,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPROJECT VIDA: $10,308 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $7,619 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT: $7,540 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Cameron County: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBIG HEROES INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 FRANCO-AMERICAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Valley Baptist Legacy…Rio Grande Valley Phi…Raul Tijerina Jr Foun…Neal & Lourdes Simmon…Rotary Club of Browns…Rotary Club of Browns…United Way of Souther…Serafy FoundationJules D Gosseaux Foun…The Moody FoundationHernandez FoundationThe Roy F & Joann Col…
Valley Baptist Legacy FoundationTX30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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