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Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $250k+6 grants · $11M
$1,645,809
Median grant
2
States reached
$258M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Mary's University of San Antonio$2,525,010
University of Incarnate Word$2,477,933
Our Lady of the Lake University$2,235,266
Univeristy of Texas Foundation$1,685,251
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi Foundation$1,645,809
Excelencia in Education$250,000
Excelencia in Education$12,500
Con Mi MADRE$5,000
Southern Brooks Volunteer Fire Department$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%Texas State University Development Foundation: $1.8M → 10%University of Texas Foundation: $2.7M → 10%University of Incarnate Word: $2.5M → 16%Texas A&M - Corpus Christi Foundation: $1.6M → 17%Texas A&M University-Kingsville Foundation Inc: $1.5M → 27%Southern Brooks Volunteer Fire Department: $2k → 28%Excelencia in Education: $250k → 14%University of Texas Foundation: $2.1M → 10%St Mary's University of San Antonio: $2.5M → 16%Southern Brooks Volunteer Fire Department: $2k → 28%Excelencia in Education: $13k → 14%Univeristy of Texas Foundation: $1.7M → 10%Our Lady of the Lake University: $2.2M → 16%Southern Brooks Volunteer Fire Department: $500 → 28%University of Texas: $5k → 10%Texas A&M San Antonio Foundation: $1.7M → 16%University of Texas: $5k → 10%St Edward's University: $2.1M → 10%Con Mi MADRE: $5k → 10%Austin Community Foundation: $1.1M → 10%Texas Higher Education Foundation: $530k → 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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 3 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$6.5M
$7.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+2%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +44%
  • UO
    University of Texas
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k
  • SB
    Southern Brooks Volunteer Fire Departmen
    3× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • SE
    St Edwards University
    one grant, 2023 · $2.1M · revenue +2%
  • TS
    TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.8M · revenue +257% · 34% of their budget
  • TA
    Texas A&M San Antonio Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $1.7M · revenue -68% · 34% of their budget
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
The University of Texas Foundation No 1

To support the university of texas system

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The University of Texas Foundation No 2

To support the university of texas system

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3
Texas College

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.

Education
4
Texas a&M University-Central Tx Foundati

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).

Education
5
Forty First Foundation

The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…

Education
6
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
7
Texas State University - San Marcos Research Foundation % Darryl Borgonah

The purpose of the university research foundation is to promote texas state university's objectives of providing higher education, conducting research, providing public service, and assisting in economic development in texas.

Education
8
Texas State University System Foundation

Public charitable uses and purposes for the benefit of the texas state university system and its components by providing, directly or indirectly, assistance and benefits to the system and/ or the systems components.

Education
9
The Tstc Foundation

To complement the state of texas' support of the colleges by providing financial support for new and ongoing projects and activities in the areas of research, education and community service.

Education
10
Alabama a&M University Foundation

The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…

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11
Austin Community College Foundation

Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.

Education
12
West Texas a&M Univ Foundation

The foundation supports west texas a&m university, an institution of higher education, and the students of wtamu by receiving and administering gifts from the public.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Texas Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Southern Brooks Volunteer Fire Departmen. 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

14 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. 14 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of the Incarnate Word: $2,477,933 · EducationUniversity of the Incarnate WordOUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIO: $2,235,266 · EducationOUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIOSt Edwards University: $2,134,381 · EducationSt Edwards UniversityTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $1,794,469 · EducationTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONTexas A&M San Antonio Foundation: $1,708,860 · EducationTexas A&M San Antonio FoundationTEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION: $1,645,809 · EducationTEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATIONTexas A&M University - Kingsville Foundation Inc: $1,476,820 · EducationTexas A&M University - Kingsville Foundation IncTEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $530,000 · Education+2 more: $267,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $6,442,557 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCSt Mary's University: $2,525,010 · OtherSt Mary's University+2 more: $13,500 · OtherAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,059,502 · Philanthropy
Education$14,271,038Other$8,981,067Philanthropy$1,059,502

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 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 budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,059,502 over 1y, 0.9% 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
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.

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 Foundat…Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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