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Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust at a glance

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Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$20MHealth$3.4MReligion$2.5MFood & Nutrition$2.0MHuman Services$1.8MYouth Development$996kCrime & Legal$693kRecreation & Sports$125kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k17 grants · $338k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%SOUTH TEXAS ADVANCEMENT RESOURCE: $15k → 21%FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS: $20k → 17%SOUTH TEXAS ADVANCEMENT RESOURCE: $10k → 21%SOUTH TEXAS ADVANCEMENT RESOURCE: $10k → 21%SOUTH TEXAS ADVANCEMENT RESOURCE: $8k → 21%SOUTH TEXAS ADVANCEMENT RESOURCE: $6k → 21%SOUTH TEXAS ADVANCEMENT RESOURCE: $6k → 21%VOLUNTEERS SERVICING THE NEED: $153k → 21%VOLUNTEERS SERVICING THE NEED: $80k → 21%VOLUNTEERS SERVICING THE NEED: $60k → 21%VOLUNTEERS SERVICING THE NEED: $60k → 21%VOLUNTEERS SERVICING THE NEED: $60k → 21%VOLUNTEERS SERVICING THE NEED: $50k → 21%VOLUNTEERS SERVICING THE NEED: $50k → 21%VOLUNTEERS SERVICING THE NEED: $50k → 21%VOLUNTEERS SERVICING THE NEED: $50k → 21%VOLUNTEERS SERVING THE NEED: $25k → 21%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $100k → 21%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $100k → 21%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $100k → 21%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $100k → 21%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $100k → 21%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $75k → 21%LAREDO LIFE CENTER: $10k → 21%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $75k → 21%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $75k → 21%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $75k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 38 repeat orgs$285k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +51% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
12

Total granted

$32M
$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+51%

Still filing today

53%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 Center
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +146%
  • ST
    SOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $945k · revenue +100%
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club of Laredo Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $910k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $57k
  • SC
    Serving Children & Adults in Need Inc S C A N INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +66%
  • ST
    SOUTH TEXAS COUNCIL OF BOYS SCOUTS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $28k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Texas State Lulac

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

Human Services
3
Aspiring Texas Latinos Achieving Success Together

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…

Community Improvement
4
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
5
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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6
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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7
Llano County Historical Society Inc

historic preservation and education

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8
Llano Chamber of Commerce

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.

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9
Laredo Regional Food Bank

The food bank shall distribute purchased and donated food to other charities for distribution to the poor and the needy in the community.

Membership Benefit
10
The Lullaby House

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.

Youth Development
11
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
12
Laredo Children's Museum Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Livestock Exposition Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 53 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
24/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $11,000,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYLaredo College: $5,125,000 · OtherLaredo CollegeDIOCESE OF LAREDO: $2,473,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF LAREDOMARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS SCHOOL: $1,500,000 · OtherMARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $1,175,000 · OtherUNITED DAY SCHOOL: $1,030,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of Laredo Inc: $910,000 · Other+31 more: $3,723,525 · Other+31 moreRuthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center: $1,215,000 · HealthMERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO: $900,000 · HealthCASA DE MISERICORDIA: $800,000 · Human ServicesVolunteers Serving The Need: $638,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH TEXAS ADVANCEMENT RESOURCE: $55,653 · Human Services+2 more: $45,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $945,000 · Community ImprovementUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $400,000 · EducationLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA - LAREDO: $182,000 · EducationHOLDING INSTITUTE INC: $71,000 · Education+1 more: $20,000 · EducationThe Laredo Diploma Plus Foundation Inc: $96,000 · PhilanthropyServing Children & Adults in Need Inc S C A N INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalLAREDO CRIME STOPPERS INC: $40,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$26,936,525Health$2,115,000Human Services$1,538,653Community Improvement$945,000Education$673,000Philanthropy$96,000Crime & Legal$90,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRuthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center: $1,215,000 over 9y, 8.2% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $945,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Laredo Inc: $910,000 over 9y, 6.4% of budgetMERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO: $900,000 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetSt Mary's University: $875,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCASA DE MISERICORDIA: $800,000 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetVolunteers Serving The Need: $638,000 over 9y, 43% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $400,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBethany House of Laredo Inc: $332,500 over 7y, 9.2% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA - LAREDO: $182,000 over 9y, 33% of budgetTHE BURKE FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetThe Laredo Diploma Plus Foundation Inc: $96,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetLAREDO HEAT YOUTH SOCCER: $65,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS ADVANCEMENT RESOURCE: $55,653 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetServing Children & Adults in Need Inc S C A N INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLaredo Cultural District Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 81% of budgetLAREDO CRIME STOPPERS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetRETURNING HEROS HOME INC: $40,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetFOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetDAPHNE ART FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAREDO ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SOUTH TEXAS COUNCIL: $8,690 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRGISC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSociety of Martha Washington: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 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 ↗
  • Who funds DAPHNE ART FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Guadalupe and Lil…Laredo Area Community…American Electric Pow…United Way of Laredo …The John G and Marie …D D Hachar Charitable…Womens City Club of L…A R Tony and Maria J …The Prairie FoundationGreater Houston Commu…Matias DE Llano Chari…The Lauro Lopez Famil…
The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez FoundationTX34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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