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Looney-Montgomery Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Looney-Montgomery Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$133kArts & Culture$26kReligion$10kHuman Services$9kAnimals$8kHealth$8kYouth Development$3kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$449k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
EASTER SEALS RGV$1,000
THE UNIV OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLE$1,000
CAMP UNIVERSITY$1,000
DRISCOLL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL-RGV$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$200
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 27%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOC FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM: $500 → 11%REMEMBER THE ALAMO FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $1k → 22%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE: $5k → 27%MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY: $4k → 27%THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM: $1k → 23%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE: $5k → 27%MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY: $3k → 27%THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM: $500 → 23%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM: $2k → 10%MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY: $3k → 27%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM: $2k → 10%MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY: $2k → 27%MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY: $2k → 27%MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY: $1k → 27%MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY: $900 → 27%LSMCIC ROUND-UP: $500 → 27%LSMCIC ROUND-UP: $500 → 27%LSMCIC: $500 → 27%SOUTH TEXAS IND SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1k → 27%ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH & SCHOOL: $100k → 27%EASTER SEALS RGV: $1k → 27%SOUTH TEXAS AGRICULTURAL ROUNDUP: $1k → 27%FOSTER ANGELS SOUTH TEXAS: $750 → 27%TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10k → 27%HIDALGO COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION: $2k → 27%INTERNATION MUSEUM OF ART & SCIENCE: $5k → 27%DRISCOLL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL-RGV: $2k → 27%CAMP UNIVERSITY: $2k → 27%INTERNATION MUSEUM OF ART & SCIENCE: $1k → 27%VANNIE E COOK JR CANCER FOUNDATIO: $1k → 27%VANNIE E COOK JR CANCER FOUNDATIO: $1k → 27%VANNIE E COOK JR CANCER FOUNDATIO: $1k → 27%PALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY: $3k → 27%PALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2k → 27%THE UNIV OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $1k → 27%THE UNIV OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $1k → 27%PALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1k → 27%THE UNIV OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $1k → 27%PALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1k → 27%DRISCOLL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL-RGV: $1k → 27%PAN AMERICAN ROUND TABLE OF EDINBUR: $1k → 27%THE UNIV OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $1k → 27%THE UNIV OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $1k → 27%THE UNIV OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLE: $1k → 27%PALM VALLEY ANIMAL CENTER: $750 → 27%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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$72k · 16 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
20

Total granted

$72k
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+48%

Still filing today

38%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +44%
  • VE
    VANNIE E COOK JR CANCER FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +109%
  • ES
    EASTER SEALS RIO GRANDE VALLEY
    2× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH & SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • TE
    TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • TE
    TEXAS EXES WILL LOONEY MEMORIAL SCH
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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.

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Texas Flying Legends Museum
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2
Texas State Rifle Association Foundation Inc
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3
San Antonio a & M Club Foundation

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.

Education
4
South Texas Recovery Foundation Incorporated

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…

Health
5
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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6
The Range Foundation

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

Food & Nutrition
7
Texas State University - San Marcos Research Foundation % Darryl Borgonah

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.

Education
8
Texas Ranger Association Foundation

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…

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9
Texas State University Development Foundation

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.

Education
10
Genetic Resource Association of Texas
Health
11
Vaquero Legacy Preservation Foundation

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.…

Food & Nutrition
12
Hankamer Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH & SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH & SCHOOLTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCHTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE: $10,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLETEXAS EXES WILL LOONEY MEMORIAL SCH: $6,200 · OtherINTERNATION MUSEUM OF ART & SCIENCE: $6,000 · Other+19 more: $32,535 · Other+19 moreMUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY: $16,450 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF …Remember the Alamo Foundation: $1,000 · Arts & CultureRemember t…+1 more: $500 · Arts & CulturePALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY FKA PALM VALLEY ANIMAL CENTER: $7,750 · AnimalsC A M P UNIVERSITY: $3,500 · EducationHIDALGO COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION: $1,500 · EducationTexas A&M Foundation: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationCity Kids Adventures: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTH TEXAS AGRICULTURAL ROUNDUP: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentEASTER SEALS RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $1,200 · HealthGWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION: $100 · HealthHUNT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $200 · Public Safety & DisasterINGRAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $100 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$164,735Arts & Culture$17,950Animals$7,750Education$6,100Youth Development$3,000Health$1,300Public Safety & Disaster$300

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 budgetMUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY: $16,450 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPALM VALLEY ANIMAL SOCIETY FKA PALM VALLEY ANIMAL CENTER: $7,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVANNIE E COOK JR CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $3,535 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetC A M P UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCity Kids Adventures: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIDALGO COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEASTER SEALS RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS AGRICULTURAL ROUNDUP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRemember the Alamo Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINGRAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSu Casa De Esperanza Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 Texas A&M Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH TEXAS AGRICULTURAL ROUNDUP ↗
  • Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INGRAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds Su Casa De Esperanza Inc ↗

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 Betty Bentsen Win…Greater Houston Commu…Tony L Talbott & Carm…Nelson Puett Foundati…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Betty Bentsen Winn FoundationTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Looney-Montgomery Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Looney-Montgomery Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Looney-Montgomery Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Looney-Montgomery Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 38 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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