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Looney-Montgomery Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATION MUSEUM OF ART & SCIENCE | $5,000 |
| PALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY | $2,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| DRISCOLL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL-RGV | $1,000 |
| EASTER SEALS RGV | $1,000 |
| THE UNIV OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLE | $1,000 |
| CAMP UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 27%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of your 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.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +44%- VEVANNIE E COOK JR CANCER FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +109%
- ESEASTER SEALS RIO GRANDE VALLEY2× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH & SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $100k
- TETRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TETEXAS EXES WILL LOONEY MEMORIAL SCHone grant, 2021 · $6k
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 promote fellowship among former students, current students, and friends of texas a&m, to spread the aggie spirit across the greater san antonio area, and to provide scholarships to bexar county students attending texas a&m university.
South texas recovery foundation exists to tear down the strongholds of substance use disorder and transform lives through counseling, education and long-term support. south texas recovery foundation operates an extended recovery center for…
The range foundation exists to advance education, research, and public benefit activities that support the mission of the range 501(c)(6) in driving innovation and sustainable development in the texas panhandle
The purpose of the university research foundation is to promote texas state university's objectives of providing higher education, conducting research, providing public service, and assisting in economic development in texas.
Support active and retired texas rangers and immediate family members through scholarships, financial assistance, and operational support in service to the citizens of texas; preserve and perpetuate the history and heritage of the texas…
To support and further the mission of texas state university through the acceptance and investment of gifts established as endowments benefiting the students, faculty and staff.
The foundation plans to coordinate with universities and research institutions related to scientific research concerning rangeland management, wildlife management, ecological conservation, and agricultural and animal science initiatives.…
Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is City Kids Adventures. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 38 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 MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY ↗
- Who funds PALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY FKA PALM VALLEY ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VANNIE E COOK JR CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds C A M P UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds City Kids Adventures ↗
- Who funds HIDALGO COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS RIO GRANDE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS AGRICULTURAL ROUNDUP ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds HUNT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds INGRAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Su Casa De Esperanza Inc ↗
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 Betty Bentsen Winn Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Tony L Talbott & Carmen C Talbott Foundation Inc · Nelson Puett Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Looney-Montgomery 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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