· Private foundation
Lucille and John B Dougherty Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of LUCILLE AND JOHN B DOUGHERTY TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| HEALTH FOR ALL CLINIC INC | $10,000 |
| BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC | $10,000 |
| NORTH BRYAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $7,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC | $5,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC | $5,000 |
| BRAZOS MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CLINIC | $5,000 |
| UNITY PARTNERS | $5,000 |
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.
Your 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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- BVBRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue +286%
- BVBRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +39%
- BIBryan ISD Education Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue -16% · 80% of their budget
- UPUnlimited Potential Incone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +25%
- PPPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGSone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +10%
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 provide guidance and support for persons affected by alcohol and substance abuse.
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…
Comprehensive service to domestic violence and sexual assault victims
To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County
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…
To provide community, life-long learning, and meaningful work for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
To stimulate understanding of natural and cultural history, and to encourage responsible stewardship of all natural resources.
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…
To assist homeless families in securing stable housing
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.
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.
To promote the health, social, educational, vocational and character development of youth in and around Lamar County, Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 51 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 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 TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Brazos Maternal and Child Health Clinic ↗
- Who funds College Station ISD Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Unity Partners ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Unlimited Potential Inc ↗
- Who funds The Reach Project ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS 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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Elizabeth House Maternity Home ↗
- Who funds YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS INTERFAITH IMMIGRATION NETWORK ↗
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: 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
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 Lucille and John B Dougherty Trust 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.