· Private foundation
Laverne & Thomas Howell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $367k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $357k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF CC | $357,000 |
| COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TIMON'S MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| COMPASSIONATE CARE MEDICAL CLINIC | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP | $25,000 |
| TENNIS SUCCESS INC | $25,000 |
| FOSTER VILLAGE CORPUS CHRISTI | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| AGAPE RANCH | $20,000 |
| COASTAL BEND FOOD BANK | $17,092 |
| CASA OF THE COASTAL BEND | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $382k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Laverne & Thomas Howell Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 92%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 8 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTIMON'S MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $289k · revenue +12%
- CBCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue +47%
- TSTENNIS SUCCESS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +174%
Funded once
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2021 · $44k · revenue +7%
- CSChristus Spohn Health System Corporationone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +18%
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
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.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
Christus health foundation of southeast texas serves the philanthropic needs of christus health southeast texas by soliciting and distributing contributions in support of christus health southeast texas.
Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…
The mission of Christian Community Service Center, Inc. (CCSC) is to serve the poor, hungry, disabled and otherwise needy while respecting their religious, ethnic, or cultural differences.
To provide service to people in need and to address social ills that undermind the dignity of the person. the ultimate goal of catholic charities is to create positive life changing opportunities for those in need without regard to color,…
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…
Inspired by adherence to the teachings of the Catholic Church to operate a facility used for retreats, workshops, camps, and worship for the educational and spiritual enrichment of the youth and young adults of Southeast Texas. Christ…
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.
Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC ↗
- Who funds TIMON'S MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEND FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TENNIS SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE HELPING HAND ↗
- Who funds COMPASSIONATE CARE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds AIM FOR SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds SEA CITY WORK CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Reach Ministries ↗
- Who funds Christus Spohn Health System Corporation ↗
- Who funds FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGAPE RANCH ↗
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: Ed Rachal Foundation · Behmann Brothers Foundation · Allen Lovelace Moore and Blanche Davis Moore Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Earl C Sams Foundation Inc · United Way of the Coastal Bend Inc · Jack and Susie Dugan Family Foundation · Estill Foundation · Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation · Dr and Mrs Hugh a Kennedy Foundation · Bethel Hesed
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Laverne & Thomas Howell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laverne & Thomas Howell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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