· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATexas A&M Foundation4× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +90%
- AWA WISH WITH WINGS INC2× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +77%
- 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 +119%- DCDOCENT COUNCIL OF THE GLADYS PORTER ZOOone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Texas A&M Foundation ↗
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- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hernandez Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hernandez Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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