How much did LAMAR BRUNI VERGARA TRUST grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of LAMAR BRUNI VERGARA TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

webb

2020

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2021

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2022

scouts

2023

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2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 31 grants

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

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

$80M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
LIFE$40,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$32M · 40 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +112% since the first grant, against +59% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$32M

$270k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+112%

+59%

Still filing today

40%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

RB
RUTHE B COWL REHABILITATION CTR
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +146%
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SOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
9× · 2017–2025 · $945k · revenue +121%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAREDO
9× · 2017–2025 · $910k · revenue +46%

Funded once

CO
CITY OF LAREDO
one grant, 2018 · $57k
SC
SERVING CHILDREN & ADULTS IN NEEDgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +59%
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SOUTH TEXAS COUNCIL OF BOYS SCOUTS
2× · 2017–2018 · $28k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Childrens Advocacy Center of Laredo-Web

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…

Health

Laredo Regional Food Bank

The Food Bank receives donated food and purchases food as supplement It distributes food to other Charities and low incocme families

Membership Benefit

Laredo Area Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy

Texas State Lulac

The mission of lulac is to advance the economic condition political housing health civil rights of the hispanic population

Human Services

Ldf Nonprofit Foundation

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…

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United Way of Laredo Inc

Financial support for other 501(c)(3) organizations, including accepted health, welfare and recreational agencies.

Philanthropy

Laredo Main Street Inc

Economic revitalization of downtown business

Arts & Culture

Planned Parenthood South Texas

To provide family planning and sexual healthcare services.

Health

Lower Rio Grande Valley Community

Provide medical services to individuals who do not have medical care services due to their economic status.

Health

Laredo Tennis Association

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…

Recreation & Sports

The Lullaby House

The Lullaby House provides long term housing for homeless pregnant and parenting teens in forster care and in the community ages 0-23. Our homes is licensed by the state of Texas and can house 4 teen moms and their children.

Youth Development

Lideramos

Lideramos' mission is to improve and enhance latino leadership programs that exist and to initiate programs in communities where there are none currently. lideramos exists to prepare latinos to be leaders of a multicultural society.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laredo Animal Protective Society 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 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/24

the rest of the field

15%

69/467

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.

05the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

20/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$27,509,525Health$2,115,000Education$1,548,000Community Improvement$945,000Philanthropy$96,000Human Services$90,653Crime & Legal$90,000

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.

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.

United Way of Laredo IncTX24.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Laredo Inc · Laredo Area Community Foundation · Womens City Club of Laredo · The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy · American Electric Power Foundation · A R Tony and Maria J Sanchez · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation · D D Hachar Charitable Trust · The Prairie Foundation · South Texas Outreach 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 organisation 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LAREDO CULTURAL DISTRICT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 42.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 850571040 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LAREDO CULTURAL DISTRICT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 81% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust?

Find your warmest path to Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LAMAR BRUNI VERGARA TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust?

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LAMAR BRUNI VERGARA TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust?

More from the funding graph