· Private foundation
Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northwest Assistance Ministries | $30,000 |
| Interfaith Ministries | $20,000 |
| Lord of the Streets | $20,000 |
| Wesley Community Center | $15,000 |
| El Centro de Corazon | $11,000 |
| Avenue 360 Health and Wellness | $10,000 |
| Houston Food Bank | $10,000 |
| North Pasadena Community Outreach | $5,000 |
| The Beacon | $5,000 |
| Mission of Yahweh | $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, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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 +44% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON8× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +73%- ECEL CENTRO DE CORAZON8× · 2018–2025 · $93k · revenue +24%
- WCWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS7× · 2019–2025 · $83k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- HSHAVE SHEARS WILL TRAVELone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -40%
- TCThe Council on Recoverygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +25%
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.
Houston Area Development Corporation (HACDC), a Community Housing Development Corporation (CHDO), owns and operates single room occupancy (SRO) properties housing low-income individuals and the chronically homeless. It offers robust…
The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.
The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…
West Street Recovery's mission is to connect communities to the resources they need to rebuild after climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey and build resilient, secure, and stronger communities.
The organization provides medical services in the form of primary and preventive care to underserved and underinsured residents of harris county.
The coalition for the homeless of houston/harris county acts as a catalyst, uniting partners and maximizing resources to move people experiencing homelessness into permanent housing with supportive services.
Main Street Ministries (MSM) is on a mission to build paths out of poverty empowered by the love of Jesus.
To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.
The Houston Area Women's Center (HAWC) works to end domestic and sexual violence and supports all in building safe and healthy lives through advocacy, counseling, education, shelter, and support services.
Health care services are provided to low to moderate income families who are residents of South Texas. Services are provided at a low cost are based on abiilty to pay base. Approximately 18,022 patients were served in the fiscal year.
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
To provide emergency assistance to people in Montgomery County, TX who are in an unexpected crisis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Area Community Services and the most unlike its peers is North Pasadena Community Outreach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE CORAZON ↗
- Who funds WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF YAHWEH INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds New Hope Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH PASADENA COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds HAVE SHEARS WILL TRAVEL ↗
- Who funds The Council on Recovery ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Medallion Foundation Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · United Way of Greater Houston · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Simmons Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Episcopal Health Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Coalition for the Homeless of Houston Harris County
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 Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable 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.