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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 FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$681k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN IGNACIO DE LA LOYA$15,000
ST ANTHONY CATHOLIC CHURCH$14,602
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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 27%, against an area that typically sits at 27%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 27%OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE (BROWNSVILLE): $28k → 23%SACRED HEART (HIDALGO): $10k → 27%PRINCE OF PEACE CHURCH (LYFORD): $14k → 29%IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (RIO GRANDE CITY): $13k → 33%ST EUGENE DE MAZENOD CHURCH (BROWNSVILLE): $20k → 23%SAN MARTIN DE PORRES CHURCH (ALTON): $10k → 27%ST MONICA CATHOLIC CHURCH: $11k → 29%IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL (RIO GRANDE CITY): $10k → 33%CHRIST THE KING CHURCH: $11k → 23%OUR LADY OF MERCY (MERCEDES): $7k → 27%OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE (RAYMONDVILLE): $13k → 29%HOLY FAMILY CHURCH (LA GRULLA): $46k → 33%ST LUKE CHURCH (BROWNSVILLE): $9k → 23%MOTHER CABRINI CHURCH (PHARR): $71k → 27%HOLY FAMILY CHURCH (LA GRULLA): $28k → 33%IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY (HARLINGEN): $10k → 23%ST ANNE CHURCH (PHARR): $69k → 27%SACRED HEART CHURCH (ESCOBARES): $13k → 33%ST ANTHONY SCHOOL (HARLINGEN): $8k → 23%OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY (MISSION): $20k → 27%OUR LADY QUEEN OF THE UNIVERSE (SAN BENITO): $29k → 23%MOTHER CABRINI CHURCH (PHARR): $53k → 27%ST THERESA CHURCH (SAN BENITO): $27k → 23%OUR LADY OF ST JOHN OF THE FIELDS (MISSION): $10k → 27%ST THERESA CHURCH (EDCOUCH): $20k → 23%ST ANNE CHURCH (PHARR): $30k → 27%ST IGNATIUS LOYOLA CHURCH & MISSIONS: $13k → 23%ST JOSEPH THE WORKER CHURCH: $14k → 27%OUR HEAVENLY FATHER CHURCH (OLMITO): $6k → 23%OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE (LA VILLA): $8k → 27%ST JOSEPH CHURCH (BROWNSVILLE): $20k → 23%ST MARGARET MARY (PHARR): $12k → 27%HOLY FAMILY (BROWNSVILLE): $15k → 23%OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP (MCALLEN): $13k → 27%ST MARY CHURCH (SANTA ROSA): $9k → 23%SAN MARTIN DE PORRES SCHOOL (WESLACO): $42k → 27%ST ANTHONY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 23%ST PIUS X CHURCH (WESLACO): $7k → 27%ST THERESA CHURCH (EDCOUCH): $51k → 27%ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (SAN JUAN): $10k → 27%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RGV: $10k → 27%CATHOLIC CHARITITES OF THE RGV: $10k → 27%PLAZA AMISTAD: $206k → 27%PLAZA AMISTAD: $50k → 27%ST JOSEPH SCHOOL (EDINBURG): $26k → 27%SACRED HEART (ELSA): $7k → 27%HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH (PROGRESO): $10k → 27%OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS (LA JOYA): $25k → 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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$671k · 7 repeat orgs$532k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
34

Total granted

$671k
$517k

Still filing today

29%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • PA
    PLAZA AMISTAD
    2× · 2022–2023 · $256k · revenue +229% · 34% of their budget
  • MC
    MOTHER CABRINI PARISH
    2× · 2021–2022 · $124k
  • SA
    ST ANNE MOTHER OF MARY CHURCH
    2× · 2021–2022 · $99k

Funded once

  • SM
    SAN MARTIN DE PORRAS CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $42k
  • OL
    OUR LADY QUEEN
    one grant, 2021 · $29k
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $28k
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
04the grantee network

2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 42 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
1/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOTHER CABRINI PARISH: $123,972 · OtherMOTHER CABRINI PARISHST ANNE MOTHER OF MARY CHURCH: $99,091 · OtherST ANNE MOTHER OF MARY CHURCHHOLY FAMILY CHURCH: $73,584 · OtherHOLY FAMILY CHURCHOur Lady of Guadalupe Mission: $70,800 · OtherOur Lady of Guadalupe MissionSAN MARTIN DE PORRAS CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $42,463 · Other+36 more: $537,128 · Other+36 morePLAZA AMISTAD: $256,000 · HealthPLAZA AMISTAD
Other$947,038Health$256,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLAZA AMISTAD: $256,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 PLAZA AMISTAD ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY ↗

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 …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Love Builds Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Love Builds Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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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.

    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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