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Community Foundation of Brazoria County

The charitable purpose of the Community Foundation of Brazoria County cfbc is to build permanent funds for the benefit of the community, to respond to change needs through effective grantmaking and to encourage philanthropy.

$485k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$550kEducation$535kHuman Services$414kHealth$337kAnimals$147kFood & Nutrition$138kArts & Culture$123kRecreation & Sports$79kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $374,215, the rows itemized in this filing. The $485,498 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $111,283 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $329k
$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University Baptist Church$38,750
BACH$38,200
Our Lady Queen of Peace$35,000
Our Lady of Guadalupe$30,500
PGF Grant Fund$21,137
Mountain on Masters Rd$20,000
Second Chance Network$20,000
Boy Scouts of America South T$20,000
Brazoria Cnty Womens Center$20,000
Brazosport Rotary Club$19,000
Community Inclusion Program$16,000
Brazosport Cares Inc$10,715
Cal Farleys Boys Ranch$10,000
Texas Baptist Men$10,000
Theatre Under the Stars$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $254k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Cal Farleys Boys Ranch: $10k → 20%BAPS Charities: $10k → 8%Cal Farleys Boys Ranch: $10k → 20%Brazoria Cnty Dream Ctr: $15k → 10%River of Hope: $8k → 10%Brazoria County Dream Center: $22k → 10%Brazoria County Dream Center: $22k → 10%Harvest for the Hungry: $23k → 16%True to life ministries: $11k → 10%True to Life Ministries: $10k → 10%True to Life Ministries: $8k → 10%Brazoria County Dream Center: $5k → 10%Counseling Connections for Ch: $10k → 10%Forgotten Angels: $17k → 10%Forgotten Angels: $15k → 10%Mosaic in Action: $15k → 10%ActionS Inc Brazoria Co: $20k → 10%ActionS Inc Brazoria Co: $12k → 10%BACH ECI: $10k → 10%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 41 repeat orgs$727k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
58

Total granted

$1.8M
$632k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+18%

Still filing today

63%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’24’25
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • OL
    Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic School Incorporated
    4× · 2018–2021 · $119k · revenue +18%
  • BC
    BRAZOSPORT COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +51%
  • BC
    BRAZOSPORT CARES
    6× · 2018–2025 · $102k · revenue +689%

Funded once

  • SA
    Salvation Army
    one grant, 2024 · $31k
  • OF
    OLD FORT VELASCO HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $26k
  • HF
    HARVEST FOR THE HUNGRY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue +266%
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
Womens Center of Brazoria County Inc

Comprehensive service to domestic violence and sexual assault victims

Human Services
2
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
3
Animal Friends of Port Aransas Inc

Provide veterinary and shelter services for displaced and wayward animals in the township and outlying area of port aransas, texas.

Animals
4
Brazos Maternal and Child Health Clinic

To provide community-centered prenatal care and health education to medically indigent pregnant women in the Brazos Valley. Comprehensive, accessible and affordable prenatal care and health education are the best ways to improve pregnancy…

Health
5
Blanco Good Samaritan Center Inc

To help individuals and families in need in Blanco County, Texas through a food pantry and snacks for food-insecure school children and emergency aid to families in the form of goods from the thrift store, linkages to other aid…

Human Services
6
Starr of Hope

The mission of STARR of Hope, in collaboration with the community resources, is to provide prevention, intervention, and advocacy for women and children who experience domestic abuse or violence in Starr, Zapata and Jim Hogg Counties.

Housing & Shelter
7
Texas Rescue Inc
Animals
8
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
9
Baytown Resource & Assistance Center

The mission of the Baytown Resource & Assitance Center is to endeavor to relieve poverty and suffering by providing temporary relief to individuals or families in needy circumstances, and who reside in, or are passing through the Baytown,…

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10
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
11
Bluebonnet Childrens Center

To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.

Crime & Legal
12
Behavioral Health Solutions of South Texas

To develop and implement effective age-appropriate, consumer-driven, evidence-based services to prevent and reduce substance use and strengthen mental wellness across the southernmost Texas communities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baps Charities Inc; the most unlike its peers is Military Moms and Wives of Brazoria County. 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

60 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. 60 of the 109 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/60
Grantees still filing
36/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH: $125,475 · OtherUNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCHOur Lady Queen of Peace: $120,500 · OtherOur Lady Queen of PeaceADULT READING CENTER INC: $81,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP: $80,456 · OtherOur Lady of Guadalupe: $70,500 · OtherBACH: $61,057 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $63,000 · Other+63 more: $964,551 · Other+63 moreOur Lady Queen of Peace Catholic School Incorporated: $119,300 · EducationOur Lady Quee…BRAZOSPORT COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $105,500 · EducationBRAZOSPORT CO…Brazosport Rotary Club Charitable Foundation Inc: $27,550 · EducationBrazosport Ro…BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $21,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVER…Texas A&M Foundation: $15,000 · EducationTGP Public Schools: $11,000 · EducationUSA PATRIOTS VETERAN ATHLETICS: $10,683 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationBrazoria County Dream Center Inc: $64,238 · Human ServicesBrazoria Cou…TRUE TO LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $36,200 · Human ServicesTRUE TO LIFE…ACTIONS INC OF BRAZORIA COUNTY: $32,183 · Human ServicesACTIONS INC …Forgotten Angels Inc: $32,050 · Human ServicesForgotten An…HARVEST FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $23,450 · Human ServicesHARVEST FOR …SECOND CHANCE NETWORK INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSECOND CHANC…CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $20,000 · Human ServicesCAL FARLEY'S…MOSAIC IN ACTION: $15,000 · Human ServicesCounseling Connections for Change Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesBRAZORIA COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN'S HABILITATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesBAPS CHARITIES INC: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $14,500 · Human ServicesBrazoria County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $50,613 · AnimalsGULF COAST & SOUTHERN TEXAS ANIMAL RESCUE SERVICE: $33,100 · AnimalsCitizens For Animal Protection Inc: $25,206 · AnimalsGULF COAST BIRD OBSERVATORY INC: $11,000 · AnimalsBASSET BUDDIES RESCUE OF TEXAS: $10,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S: $8,808 · AnimalsBRAZOSPORT CARES: $101,950 · Food & NutritionPearland Neighborhood Center: $10,250 · Food & NutritionINTERFAITH FOOD BANK INC: $5,500 · Food & NutritionSTEPHEN F AUSTIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $37,000 · HealthLIVE OAK CLINIC OF BRAZOSPORT: $23,025 · HealthLEUKEMIATEXAS INC: $20,000 · HealthNATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF TEXAS INC: $8,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $6,872 · HealthPregnancy Help Center of Brazosport: $5,286 · HealthREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $39,825 · Housing & ShelterWhites Cottage Center: $28,554 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,567,039Education$320,033Human Services$287,621Animals$138,727Food & Nutrition$117,700Health$100,183Housing & Shelter$83,379

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOur Lady Queen of Peace Catholic School Incorporated: $119,300 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetBRAZOSPORT COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $105,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBRAZOSPORT CARES: $101,950 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetADULT READING CENTER INC: $81,500 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetBrazoria County Dream Center Inc: $64,238 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $63,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBrazoria County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $50,613 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ROSE: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MOUNTAIN ON MASTERS ROAD: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $39,825 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBrazosport Rotary Club: $37,500 over 2y, 32% of budgetTRUE TO LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $36,200 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Brazoria County: $35,581 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetGULF COAST & SOUTHERN TEXAS ANIMAL RESCUE SERVICE: $33,100 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetACTIONS INC OF BRAZORIA COUNTY: $32,183 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetForgotten Angels Inc: $32,050 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWhites Cottage Center: $28,554 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetBrazosport Rotary Club Charitable Foundation Inc: $27,550 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCitizens For Animal Protection Inc: $25,206 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHARVEST FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $23,450 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLIVE OAK CLINIC OF BRAZOSPORT: $23,025 over 2y, 22% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTheatre Under the Stars Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEUKEMIATEXAS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSylvia Kuvet Memorial Child Care Center: $17,756 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOSAIC IN ACTION: $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSouthwest SIDS Research Institute Inc: $14,167 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of Brazoria County I: $12,159 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHERN BRAZORIA COUNTY: $11,250 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGULF COAST BIRD OBSERVATORY INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUSA PATRIOTS VETERAN ATHLETICS: $10,683 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPearland Neighborhood Center: $10,250 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCounseling Connections for Change Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBrazosport Fine Arts Council Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSocial Motion Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBAPS CHARITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HOPE OPPORTUNITIES INC DBA WORLD CARE MINISTRIES NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBASSET BUDDIES RESCUE OF TEXAS: $10,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW OF HOPE TEXAS: $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetForever Parks Foundation of Pearland: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S: $8,808 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF TEXAS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRiver of Hope Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMILITARY MOMS AND WIVES OF BRAZORIA COUNTY: $7,500 over 1y, 6.1% 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 Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic School Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds BRAZOSPORT COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRAZOSPORT CARES ↗
  • Who funds ADULT READING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Brazoria County Dream Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Brazoria County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
  • Who funds THE ROSE ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNTAIN ON MASTERS ROAD ↗
  • Who funds REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Brazosport Rotary Club ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN F AUSTIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TRUE TO LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of Brazoria County ↗
  • Who funds GULF COAST & SOUTHERN TEXAS ANIMAL RESCUE SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds ACTIONS INC OF BRAZORIA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Forgotten Angels Inc ↗
  • Who funds Whites Cottage Center ↗
  • Who funds Brazosport Rotary Club Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Citizens For Animal Protection Inc ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVE OAK CLINIC OF BRAZOSPORT ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SECOND CHANCE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Theatre Under the Stars 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.

United Way of Brazori…Shell USA Company Fou…Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Houston Food BankGreater Houston Commu…Tdecu Cares Foundatio…Pnm Tnmp FoundationCenterpoint Energy Fo…Ancient Free & Accept…Epd IncBaker Hughes Foundati…Celanese Foundation
United Way of Brazoria CountyTX36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Brazoria County · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Tdecu Cares Foundation Inc · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Texas · Epd Inc · Baker Hughes Foundation · Celanese 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 Community Foundation of Brazoria County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of Brazoria County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%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
    3get no government money at all
    15report 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 109 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 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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