· Private foundation
Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k17 grants · $338k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| LAREDO COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS SCHOOL | $300,000 |
| DIOCESE OF LAREDO | $290,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAREDO | $250,000 |
| RUTHE B COWL REHABILITATION CTR | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER | $175,000 |
| SOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $155,000 |
| UNITED DAY SCHOOL | $110,000 |
| MERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO | $100,000 |
| CASA DE MISERICORDIA | $100,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS SERVICING THE NEED | $80,000 |
| CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE INCARNATE WORD | $50,000 |
| SACRED HEART CHILDRENS HOME | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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 +52% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- RBRuthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +146%
- STSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $945k · revenue +121%
- BABoys and Girls Club of Laredo Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $910k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $57k
- SCServing Children & Adults in Need Inc S C A N INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +66%
- STSOUTH TEXAS COUNCIL OF BOYS SCOUTS2× · 2017–2018 · $28k
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 center is fully operational treatment facility involving child victims of physical and sexual abuse. Children affected by abuse were provided with therapy and professional guidance through the legal and counseling system which the…
The mission of lulac is to advance the economic condition, political, housing, health & civil rights of the hispanic population
La tiendita is a resource and empowerment center whose mission is to provide access to healthy and affordable food options and help latino students and others to graduate, attain secondary education and become leaders in their school and…
To inspire by generosity and empower by a legacy of giving, the Laredo Area Community Foundation provides for the philanthropic needs of Laredo and surrounding communities.
The purpose of the Corporation is to stimulate economic development in the Laredo and surrounding areas, which will be accomplished by supporting business investment and growth through services offered by our Corporation, including support…
historic preservation and education
To assist the local business, governmental and individual community in developing better business relationships and to increase the local revenue base by encouraging tourism and business development.
The food bank shall distribute purchased and donated food to other charities for distribution to the poor and the needy in the community.
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
The purpose of the Laredo Tennis Association (a Texas nonprofit corporation) is to promote national or international amateur sports competition and grow the game of tennis in Laredo, TX and the surrounding areas among all age groups of…
The laredo children's museum mission is to provide bi-cultural exhibits in a creative learning environment to the children and families of the region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Livestock Exposition Inc and the most unlike its peers is South Texas Advancement Resource. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 53 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 Ruthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO ↗
- Who funds St Mary's University ↗
- Who funds CASA DE MISERICORDIA ↗
- Who funds Volunteers Serving The Need ↗
- Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
- Who funds Bethany House of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA - LAREDO ↗
- Who funds THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Laredo Diploma Plus Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LAREDO HEAT YOUTH SOCCER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS ADVANCEMENT RESOURCE ↗
- Who funds Serving Children & Adults in Need Inc S C A N INC ↗
- Who funds Laredo Cultural District Inc ↗
- Who funds LAREDO CRIME STOPPERS INC ↗
- Who funds RETURNING HEROS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust 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.