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Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$131k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$11,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving10$131k0%
FY20249$116k11%
FY202310$116k20%
FY20229$105k22%
FY20218$100k0%
FY202010$100k10%
FY20199$100k33%
FY20187$125k14%
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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$423kHousing & Shelter$246kHealth$180kFood & Nutrition$70kPublic Benefit$50kYouth Development$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northwest Assistance Ministries$240,00090%
The Beacon of Downtown Houston$107,00081%
El Centro de Corazon$93,00080%
Wesley Community Center Inc of Houston Texas$83,00070%
Houston Compass Inc$50,0002n/a
Houston Area Community Services$36,00040%
Mission of Yahweh Inc$30,00060%
The Houston Food Bank$25,00030%
New Hope Housing Inc$24,00040%
North Pasadena Community Outreach$15,00032%
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All grantees of Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northwest Assistance Ministries$240,00090%
The Beacon of Downtown Houston$107,00081%
El Centro de Corazon$93,00080%
Wesley Community Center Inc of Houston Texas$83,00070%
Houston Compass Inc$50,0002n/a
Houston Area Community Services$36,00040%
Mission of Yahweh Inc$30,00060%
The Houston Food Bank$25,00030%
New Hope Housing Inc$24,00040%
North Pasadena Community Outreach$15,00032%
Have Shears Will Travel$10,00012%
The Council on Recovery$10,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($261k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwest Assistance Ministries: $240,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetThe Beacon of Downtown Houston: $107,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetEl Centro de Corazon: $93,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWesley Community Center Inc of Houston Texas: $83,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHouston Area Community Services: $36,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMission of Yahweh Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc: $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Pasadena Community Outreach: $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHave Shears Will Travel: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Council on Recovery: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX22.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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About Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust

How much does Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust give?
Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust reported 10 grants totaling $131,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), Housing & Shelter (25%), Health (18%).
Who are Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northwest Assistance Ministries ($240k), The Beacon of Downtown Houston ($107k), El Centro de Corazon ($93k).
Does Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Medallion Foundation Inc, Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company.
Where is Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust based?
Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust 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 16 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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