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Lucille and John B Dougherty Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$553kReligion$465kHuman Services$317kPhilanthropy$157kFood & Nutrition$133kEducation$101kHousing & Shelter$72kCrime & Legal$44kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF BRYAN$60,000
HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY INC$25,000
METHODIST RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES$20,000
BRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER$12,000
BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC$10,000
ST JOSEPH REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER$10,000
HEALTH FOR ALL CLINIC INC$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
NORTH BRYAN COMMUNITY CENTER$7,500
A HOPEFUL HARVEST$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS$5,000
BRYAN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
BRAZOS MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CLINIC$5,000
UNITY PARTNERS$5,000
UNITED WAY OF THE BRAZOS VALLEY INC$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $289k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE ELIZABETH HOUSE MATERNITY HOME: $5k → 11%A HOME BASE FOR TRANSITIONING FOSTER YOUTH: $10k → 22%UNITY PARTNERS: $4k → 22%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY INC: $30k → 22%HOSPICE OF BRAZOS VALLEY: $30k → 22%HOSPICE OF BRAZOS VALLEY: $30k → 22%HOSPICE OF BRAZOS VALLEY: $25k → 22%HOSPICE OF BRAZOS VALLEY: $25k → 22%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY INC: $25k → 22%HOSPICE OF BRAZOS VALLEY: $25k → 22%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY INC: $25k → 22%HOSPICE OF BRAZOS VALLEY: $15k → 22%VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 22%VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $7k → 22%VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $5k → 22%VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $5k → 22%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $9k → 22%VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 22%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 28 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
19

Total granted

$1.7M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+10%

Still filing today

68%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BV
    BRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue +286%
  • BV
    BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +39%
  • BI
    Bryan ISD Education Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue -16% · 80% of their budget
  • UP
    Unlimited Potential Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +25%
  • PP
    PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +10%
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.

1
Brazos Valley Council on Alcohol and Substance Abuse

To provide guidance and support for persons affected by alcohol and substance abuse.

Health
2
Brazos Valley Affordable Housing Corporation

To provide quality services and products to the residents and businesses of our community in such a way as to maximize the affordability of safe and decent housing, especially for the low income; and to serve as a vehicle and assist in any…

Community Improvement
3
Womens Center of Brazoria County Inc

Comprehensive service to domestic violence and sexual assault victims

Human Services
4
United Way of Brazoria County

To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County

Philanthropy
5
Brazos Valley Cdc Inc

To provide quality services and products to the residents and businesses of our communities in such a way as to maximize the affordability of safe and decent housing, especially for the low income; and to serve as a vehicle and assist in…

Housing & Shelter
6
Brazos Employment Enterprises Dba the Bee Community

To provide community, life-long learning, and meaningful work for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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7
Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History

To stimulate understanding of natural and cultural history, and to encourage responsible stewardship of all natural resources.

Arts & Culture
8
Brazoria County Dream Center Inc

The Brazoria County Dream Center BCDC provides avenues of healing to the souls of hurting humanity in Brazoria County, TX. We address both the physical and emotional needs of the community. We accomplish this by focusing on rebuilding…

Human Services
9
Family Promise of Bryan-College Station

To assist homeless families in securing stable housing

Housing & Shelter
10
Bridge Ministries of Bryan Texas

To share Christ with others through serving those in need in the brazos valley and surrounding areas or wherever God leads and to bridge the gap by joining churches and other groups in serving together.

Religion
11
Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry

The mission of the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry and Support Center is to serve Bastrop County residents going through periods of transition by providing emergency food assistance, education and support.

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12
Boys & Girls Club of the Red River Valle y

To promote the health, social, educational, vocational and character development of youth in and around Lamar County, Texas.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Elizabeth House Maternity Home. 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

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 51 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
22/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $270,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHST JOSEPH FOUNDATION: $126,500 · OtherST JOSEPH FOUNDATIONFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF BRYAN: $125,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF BRYANMETHODIST RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES FBO CRESTVIEW RETIREMENT BUILDING FUND: $100,000 · OtherMETHODIST RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES FBO CRESTVIEW RETIREMENT …METHODIST RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES: $92,500 · OtherMETHODIST RETIREMENT COMMUNITIESFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATIONTHE SALVATION ARMY: $58,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY+21 more: $141,500 · Other+21 moreBRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER: $142,000 · HealthBRAZOS VALLEY REHAB…Health for All Inc: $96,000 · HealthHealth for All IncST JOSEPH REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER: $50,000 · HealthST JOSEPH REGIONAL …Brazos Maternal and Child Health Clinic: $20,000 · HealthBrazos Maternal and…+3 more: $17,500 · Health+3 moreHospice Brazos Valley Inc: $230,000 · Human ServicesHospice Brazos Val…Voices for Children Inc: $31,500 · Human ServicesVoices for Childre…Unity Partners: $10,500 · Human Services+6 more: $35,000 · Human Services+6 moreBRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $123,000 · Food & NutritionBryan ISD Education Foundation: $82,500 · EducationCollege Station ISD Education Foundation Inc: $18,000 · EducationUnited Way of the Brazos Valley: $26,500 · PhilanthropyRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC: $3,500 · PhilanthropyTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Reach Project: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$983,500Health$325,500Human Services$307,000Food & Nutrition$123,000Education$100,500Philanthropy$30,000Housing & Shelter$30,000

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 budgetHospice Brazos Valley Inc: $230,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER: $142,000 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetBRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $123,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHealth for All Inc: $96,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetBryan ISD Education Foundation: $82,500 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetST JOSEPH REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVoices for Children Inc: $31,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetUnited Way of the Brazos Valley: $26,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBrazos Maternal and Child Health Clinic: $20,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCollege Station ISD Education Foundation Inc: $18,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUnity Partners: $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Reach Project: $10,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetUnlimited Potential Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTwin City Mission: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $8,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBrazos County Rape Crisis Center Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH BRYAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetChildrens Museum of the Brazos Valley: $6,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Elizabeth House Maternity Home: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBRAZOS INTERFAITH IMMIGRATION NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetScottys House Brazos Valley Child Advocacy Center Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys Club of Brazos County Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOnRamp Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetS O S Ministries INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBASIN DREAM CENTER FOR ORPHANS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $2,000 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 Hospice Brazos Valley Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Health for All Inc ↗
  • Who funds Bryan ISD Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Voices for Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds United Way of the Brazos Valley ↗
  • Who funds Brazos Maternal and Child Health Clinic ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds College Station ISD Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Unity Partners ↗
  • Who funds The Reach Project ↗
  • Who funds Unlimited Potential Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Twin City Mission ↗
  • Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
  • Who funds Brazos County Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH BRYAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Museum of the Brazos Valley ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Elizabeth House Maternity Home ↗
  • Who funds BRAZOS INTERFAITH IMMIGRATION NETWORK ↗

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.

Edge Eugene III Charitable TrustMO62.3× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust · Winkler Nina Astin Trust · Orr Waldon H and Adele Charitable Trust · Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust · Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust · Virginia & Christian Groneman Charitable · M Bookman Peters Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Brazos Valley · Once Upon a Time Foundation · Marshall and Ellen Peters Family Foundation · Mervin and Annete Peters Family Foundation · Orr James Donald Charitable Trust

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 Lucille and John B Dougherty Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lucille and John B Dougherty Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 51 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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