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Love Builds Hope Foundation

The purpose of the LOVE BUILDS HOPE FOUNDATION is to financially support the spiritual, educational, and social needs of the community through the procurement and building of funds for the preservation and promotion of pastoral and charitable work within the geographic area encompassed by the catholic diocese of brownsville.

$30k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 39
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$681k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Love Builds Hope Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$30k50%
FY20231$50k0%
FY20227$357k29%
FY202139$766kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$778kHuman Services$276kPublic Safety & Disaster$88kEducation$61k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Plaza Amistad$256,000234%
Mother Cabrini Parish$123,9722n/a
St Anne Mother of Mary Church$99,0912n/a
Holy Family Church$73,5842n/a
Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission$70,8002n/a
San Martin de Porras Catholic School$42,4631n/a
Our Lady Queen$28,7941n/a
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church$28,4341n/a
Saint Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Church$28,0002n/a
St Theresa Church (San Benito)$27,0001n/a
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All grantees of Love Builds Hope Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Plaza Amistad$256,000234%
Mother Cabrini Parish$123,9722n/a
St Anne Mother of Mary Church$99,0912n/a
Holy Family Church$73,5842n/a
Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission$70,8002n/a
San Martin de Porras Catholic School$42,4631n/a
Our Lady Queen$28,7941n/a
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church$28,4341n/a
Saint Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Church$28,0002n/a
St Theresa Church (San Benito)$27,0001n/a
Saint Joseph Catholic School$25,6881n/a
Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church$25,0001n/a
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church$22,8271n/a
Saint Eugene de Mazenod Parish Brownsville$20,0001n/a
Saint Joseph Church Brownsville Texas$20,0001n/a
Immaculate Conception Cathedral-Brownsville$20,0001n/a
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley$20,00020%
Our Lady of the Holy Rosary$19,5001n/a
Holy Family Catholic Church of Bro$15,3311n/a
St Anthony Catholic Church$14,6021n/a
St Joseph the Worker Church$14,0001n/a
Prince of Peace Parish$13,6261n/a
Immaculate Conception Church of Rio Grande City$13,4411n/a
Sacred Heart Catholic Church$12,5001n/a
Our Lady of Perpetual Help (McAllen)$12,5001n/a
St Margaret Mary (Pharr)$12,0001n/a
Christ the King Church$10,8601n/a
St John the Baptist$10,2141n/a
Immaculate Conception School - Rio Grande City$10,2001n/a
Our Lady of St John of the Fields Parish$10,0001n/a
Holy Spirit Parish$10,0001n/a
Saint Martin de Porres of Alton Texas$10,0001n/a
Sacred Heart Church$9,9261n/a
St Mary Catholic Church$9,4601n/a
Saint Luke Parochial School$9,0001n/a
St Anthony School of Harlingen T$8,0001n/a
Our Lady of Guadalupe (La Villa)$7,9141n/a
Our Lady of Mercy Church$7,4681n/a
Saint Pius X Catholic Church Weslaco$7,2001n/a
Sacred Heart Catholic Church$6,7761n/a
Our Heavenly Father Catholic Churc$5,6671n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($11k), not named here.

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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial FoundationTX73.7× affinity34 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Love Builds Hope Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Love Builds Hope 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.

About Love Builds Hope Foundation

How much does Love Builds Hope Foundation give?
Love Builds Hope Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $29,602 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 39 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Love Builds Hope Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (65%), Human Services (23%), Public Safety & Disaster (7%).
Who are Love Builds Hope Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Plaza Amistad ($256k), Mother Cabrini Parish ($124k), St Anne Mother of Mary Church ($99k).
Does Love Builds Hope Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Love Builds Hope Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation.
Where is Love Builds Hope Foundation based?
Love Builds Hope Foundation is based in TX.

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 42 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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