· Private foundation
Ed Rachal Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k87 grants · $303k
- $10k–50k158 grants · $3.5M
- $50k–250k90 grants · $6.3M
- $250k+9 grants · $17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HALO FLIGHT | $5,439,911 |
| LOUISE ALLEN FOUNDATION | $5,000,000 |
| PALACIOS MARINE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH | $4,000,000 |
| REMEMBER THE ALAMO FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES | $610,095 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CENTER | $500,000 |
| SOUTH TEXAS MISSION OF MERCY | $300,000 |
| CITY OF PALACIOS | $300,000 |
| NUECES COUNTY | $290,471 |
| DIOCESE OF CORPUS CHRISTI | $200,000 |
| PALACIOS ISD | $160,000 |
| ANNAPOLIS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| SPECIAL ANGELS OF THE WOODLANDS | $120,211 |
| SA LIFE ACADEMY INC | $100,000 |
| PEEWEE'S PET ADOPTION WORLD & SANCTUARY | $100,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $20.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
272 repeat relationships — 217 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 94 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.5M 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
- LALOUISE ALLEN FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $24M · revenue +96% · 97% of their budget
- PMPALACIOS MARINE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INC3× · 2023–2025 · $9.5M · revenue +22% · 95% of their budget
- TCTexas Children's Hospital5× · 2017–2025 · $850k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- APASSET PURCHASES TREATED AS QUALIFYING DISTRIBUTIOone grant, 2023 · $6.8M
- TGTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $3.0M · revenue 0%
- COCITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI - LAMAR LOCATIONSone grant, 2023 · $2.3M
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.
Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).
Child Advocacy
Texas Christian Foundations mission is to mobilize resources by inspiring biblical generosity and educating Texans on ways their generosity can impact their community, Texas and the world.
For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clarity Child Guidance Center and the most unlike its peers is Rob & Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
266 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. 266 of the 599 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
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
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 LOUISE ALLEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALACIOS MARINE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds HALO FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE HELPING HAND ↗
- Who funds COMPASSIONATE CARE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AGORA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RANGER ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RISE SCHOOL OF CORPUS CHRISTI ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT FULTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEEWEE'S PET ADOPTION WORLD & SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds DEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE RANCH ↗
- Who funds FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PALACIOS LIBRARY INC ↗
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: Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Behmann Brothers Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Allen Lovelace Moore and Blanche Davis Moore Foundation · Earl C Sams Foundation Inc · United Way of the Coastal Bend Inc · Puente de Maravillas Foundation · Susser Family Foundation · Frazier Family Foundation Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · Laverne & Thomas Howell Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800
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 Ed Rachal 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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