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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 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
- 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 |
| TENNIS SUCCESS INC | $25,000 |
| REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP | $25,000 |
| FOSTER VILLAGE CORPUS CHRISTI | $25,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| AGAPE RANCH | $20,000 |
| COASTAL BEND FOOD BANK | $17,092 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CASA OF THE COASTAL BEND | $15,000 |
| THE FIRST METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME | $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 (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 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Laverne & Thomas Howell Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you 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
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
- 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%
- STSOUTH TEXAS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OFone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Corpus Christi Metro Ministriesinc and the most unlike its peers is Sea City Work Camp Inc. 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 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 57 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 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 GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C ↗
- 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 AGAPE RANCH ↗
- 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: 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
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 Laverne & Thomas Howell 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.
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.
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