· Private foundation
Manrique de Lara Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| MCALLEN PERFORMING & CULTURAL ARTS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| BOY & GIRLS CLUB OF MCALLEN | $1,800 |
| CITY OF MCALLEN | $1,500 |
| TEXAS AMATEUR ATHLETIC FEDERATION | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RGV | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 27%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 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 +86% since the first grant, against +73% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- BABoys and Girls Club of McAllen Inc4× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +103%
- SASAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +60%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY2× · 2018–2021 · $4k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- HMHERMES MUSIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue -99% · 56% of their budget
- MAMAKE A WISHone grant, 2017 · $3k
- FBFOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INCone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -4%
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 advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…
Child Advocacy
To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.
Provide veterinary and shelter services for displaced and wayward animals in the township and outlying area of port aransas, texas.
To enhance the ability of families to protect, nuture, and educate their children in the first five years of life and enable them to enter school ready to learn.
We distribute food, clothing, and toiletry items to the poor and needy along the TX-Mexico Border as well as ministering to their spiritual needs through services, health programs, and other humanitarian efforts.
Rescue and place abandoned and unwanted pets. Provide low cost spay / neuter. Provide low-cost microchips. Provide community education.
To rescue and provide food, shelter, and medical care for abandoned animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Samaritan Center of San Antonio and the most unlike its peers is Hermes Music Foundation. 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 33 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 HERMES MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of McAllen Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF HIDALGO COUNT ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds TEXAS AMATEUR ATHLETIC FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF QUINTA MAZATLAN INC ↗
- Who funds Yaqui Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds EDINBURG CRIME STOPPERS INC ↗
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: Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation · Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Manrique de Lara Foundation 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.