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Hernandez 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $242k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ASSOCAITION OF FORMER STUDENTS | $300,000 |
| OP 1033 INC | $242,364 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY | $25,000 |
| ASTRA EDUCATION IN SPORTS | $10,000 |
| SAINT JOSEPH ACADEMY | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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 +49% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TATexas A&M Foundation4× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +90%
- AWA WISH WITH WINGS INC2× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +49%
- RGRIO GRANDE VALLEY PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2020 · $27k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- TATEXAS A&M BROWNSVILLEone grant, 2017 · $297k
THE TSTC FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +154%- DCDOCENT COUNCIL OF THE GLADYS PORTER ZOOone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
The mission is to increase the university endowment by connecting all segments of the university to the community and corporate world through value enhancing relationships and award scholarships and/or provide support to the university of…
Promotion of fine arts in the city of McAllen, Texas and surrounding area.
Food kitchen for indigent families
To promote and enchance the economic wellbeing of its membership and the rio grande valley; to foster and develop the chamber philosophy; to work with local chambers of commerce in the rio grande valley; to encourage a spirit of…
The Foundation's primary purpose is to engage in activities designed to promote the perennial teaching and devotions of authentic Catholicism, such as providing audio and printed materials, a website with sermons and prayers, printed…
The organization supports the well being of children by (a) providing temporary lodging primarily for seriously ill children and their families while receiving treatment at nearby hospitals or similar treatment facilities and (b) making…
The Rio Hondo College Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides financial assistance for scholarships and programs which meet the needs of Rio Hondo College's students.
Affordable Homes of South Texas, Inc. is organized for the purpose of providing housing for qualified low-income families within the City of McAllen, Texas and Hidalgo County, Texas.
Provide medical services to individuals who do not have medical care services due to their economic status.
Guadalupe regional medical foundation (grmf) is a 501(c)(3) public charity that advances guadalupe regional medical center's (grmc) mission in providing excellent care to every life it is privileged to touch.
To raise and manage endowment funds to sustain the operating and capital requirements of the humane society of el paso in perpetuity.
Support of charitable organizations
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley and the most unlike its peers is Sunshine Haven Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 32 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
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 Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE TSTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A WISH WITH WINGS INC ↗
- Who funds RIO GRANDE VALLEY PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE ↗
- Who funds EDDIE LUCIO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds RIO GRANDE HABITAT FOR HUMANITYINC ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER 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: Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation · Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education · Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation · Rotary Club of Brownsville Charitable Foundation · Rio Grande Valley Philanthropic Foundation · Serafy Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Rotary Club of Brownsville Sunrise Texas USA Inc · Save The Children Federation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 Hernandez 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.
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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