Texas · Private foundation
Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $66M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $3.7M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $3.6M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $3.6M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $3.8M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $3.3M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $3.4M | 15% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $3.7M | 11% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $3.6M | 12% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laredo College | $5,125,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Ruthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center | $1,215,000 | 9 | 8% |
| South Texas Food Bank | $945,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Laredo Inc | $910,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Mercy Ministries of Laredo | $900,000 | 9 | 6% |
| St Mary's University | $875,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Casa de Misericordia | $800,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Volunteers Serving The Need | $638,000 | 9 | 43% |
| University of the Incarnate Word | $400,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Bethany House of Laredo Inc | $332,500 | 7 | 9% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($19M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation · Laredo Area Community Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · United Way of Laredo Inc · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · D D Hachar Charitable Trust · Womens City Club of Laredo · A R Tony and Maria J Sanchez Family Foundation · The Prairie Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Matias DE Llano Charitable Trust · The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust
- How much does Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust give?
- Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust reported 31 grants totaling $3,723,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (63%), Health (10%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Laredo College ($5.1M), Ruthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center ($1.2M), South Texas Food Bank ($945k).
- Does Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation, Laredo Area Community Foundation, American Electric Power Foundation.
- Where is Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust based?
- Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust is based in TX.
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