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Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
57%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,645,809
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,525,010
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$258M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$11M75%
FY20237$8.6M57%
FY20224$3.8Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$23MPhilanthropy$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$4k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe University of Texas Foundation Inc: $6,442,557 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSt Mary's University: $2,525,010 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $2,477,933 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOur Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio: $2,235,266 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSt Edwards University: $2,134,381 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTexas State University Development Foundation: $1,794,469 over 1y, 34% of budgetTexas A&M San Antonio Foundation: $1,708,860 over 1y, 34% of budgetTexas A&M-Corpus Christi Foundation: $1,645,809 over 1y, 21% of budgetTexas A&M University - Kingsville Foundation Inc: $1,476,820 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTexas Higher Education Foundation: $530,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetExcelencia in Education Inc: $262,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCon Mi MADRE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSouthern Brooks Volunteer Fire Departmen: $3,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Greater Texas FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Texas Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation

How much does Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation give?
Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $10,837,269 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (96%), Philanthropy (4%), Public Safety & Disaster (0%).
Who are Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: The University of Texas Foundation Inc ($6.4M), St Mary's University ($2.5M), University of the Incarnate Word ($2.5M).
Does Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Texas Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
Where is Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation based?
Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation is based in TX.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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