· Private foundation
Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Houston Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Avenue 360 Health and Wellness | $10,000 |
| North Pasadena Community Outreach | $5,000 |
| The Beacon | $5,000 |
| Mission of Yahweh | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lulu Bryan Rambaud Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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