· Private foundation
Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOSPICE OF SOUTH TEXAS | $35,000 |
| YMCA OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,500 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF VICTORIA | $20,000 |
| THE TEXAS ZOO | $10,000 |
| VICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHRIST'S KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| VICTORIA FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| SCHREINER UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 42% of Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 62%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VCVICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +61%
- HOHOSPICE OF SOUTH TEXAS INC2× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +16%
- CDChildrens Discovery Museum Inc2× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- HOHOPE OF SOUTH TEXAS INCone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +1%
- TVTHEATRE VICTORIAone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
To establish and maintain christian education, training, and recreational facilities; and to provide instruction and training
To promote appreciation and access to visual arts and history.
Provide nutrition, transportation, and other services that support independent living for seniors, including the operation of a senior citizens center, meals on wheels, and transportation services within victoria and the surrounding…
Preserve/Maintain Victoria Mansion
The Victoria Theater Arts Center builds community power by providing a creative home that incubates the art and amplifies the voices of all people in the neighborhood.
To enhance the livability of victoria by beautification through a sense of pride and ownership.
The mission of victory christian academy, in partnership with christian parents, is to provide a loving, christ-centered environment of educational excellence so that the students may develop their gifts, knowledge, skills and energies to…
Vcam distributes emergency food supplies to needy families throughout victoria county. services also include limited utility, transportation, prescription and basic need assistance services to eligible individuals.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 VICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT ↗
- Who funds Childrens Discovery Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds Schreiner University ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CRESCENT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Wood Family Memorial Trust · South Texas Charitable Foundation · The Kathryn O'Connor Foundation · York Albert E & Myrtle Gunn Trust · K R and Laura Miller Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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