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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $610,314 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $734,733 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $124,419 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $238k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $303k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Texas A&M International Unive | $133,115 |
| Cotulla Childrens Museum | $59,234 |
| Christ Church Episcopal | $58,979 |
| Sisters of Mercy | $51,500 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Laredo | $41,287 |
| Imaginarium of South Texas | $36,746 |
| Laredo College | $26,053 |
| Laredo Church of Christ | $21,500 |
| Divine Mercy Catholic Church | $15,000 |
| Casa De Misericordia | $14,250 |
| Sacred Heart Children Home | $11,658 |
| Junior Achievement of Laredo | $11,529 |
| Martin High School | $10,187 |
| University of Texas at San An | $10,000 |
| Cong of the Blessed Sacramen | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +29% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- LCLAREDO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC3× · 2020–2024 · $254k · revenue +95% · 45% of their budget
- BABoys and Girls Club of Laredo Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $233k · revenue +39%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH TEXAS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $87k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- WCWebb Consolidated ISDone grant, 2018 · $100k
- TSTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $28k
The Trustees of Princeton Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +51%
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.
Promote creative and cultural attractions by engaging artisitic, commercial and educational entities in order to attract citizens and visitors.
The mission of lulac is to advance the economic condition, political, housing, health & civil rights of the hispanic population
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.
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…
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 Foundation supports the development and promotion of Lamar University, its students, faculty and staff. The Lamar University Foundation supports and enhances Lamar University by encouraging the commitment of personal and financial…
To support and promote for the use and benefit of Laredo College and literary, scientific, education or cultural undertakings.
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.
To improve the health and quality of life for the people of texas and beyond through excellence in education, research, clinical care, community engagement and to provide national leadership in primary care.
The universidad del sagrado corazon (sagrado) is an independent, nonprofit, catholic university, committed to the education of the whole person through strong foundation in the liberal arts. sagrado is part of puerto ricos oldest private,…
The mission of the Lamar State College Port Arthur Foundation is to promote advance support encourage sponsor aid and advocate solely for Lamar State College Port Arthur.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laredo Theater Guild International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. 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 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 60 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 LAREDO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds COTULLA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds LANDON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CASA DE MISERICORDIA ↗
- Who funds Laredo Theater Guild International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LAREDO PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
- Who funds Bethany House of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA - LAREDO ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds Ruthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LAREDO CANCER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RGISC INC ↗
- Who funds Volunteers Serving The Need ↗
- Who funds Laredo Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO ↗
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 · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · D D Hachar Charitable Trust · Womens City Club of Laredo · Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust · American Electric Power Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · United Way of Laredo Inc · A R Tony and Maria J Sanchez Family Foundation · The Prairie Foundation · Matias DE Llano Charitable Trust · Texas Higher Education 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 Laredo Area Community Foundation 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
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.