· Private foundation
Mervin and Annete Peters Family Foundation
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 $10k5 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRAZOS VALLEY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $20,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC | $8,200 |
| HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY INC | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE BRAZOS VALLEY INC | $5,000 |
| BRYANCOLLEGE STATION HABITAT FOR HUM | $5,000 |
| HEALTH FOR ALL CLINIC INC | $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 (FY18–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 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 +32% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BVBrazos Valley Museum of Natural History9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +32%
- BVBRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC8× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +39%
- BSBRYAN-COLLEGE STATION HABITAT FOR HUMANI5× · 2019–2025 · $24k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- BIBryan ISD Education Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +26%
- CSCollege Station ISD Education Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +32%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE BRAZOSone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County
To provide community, life-long learning, and meaningful work for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
To support the educational programs of Brazosport ISD for both students and staff. The foundation provides funds that are not available through the normal operating budget of the school district.
To provide guidance and support for persons affected by alcohol and substance abuse.
To provide financial support for the charitable programs and activities of Voices for Children, Inc. a nonprofit corporation 501(c)(3) that provides advocacy services to children in the child welfare system due to abuse and/or neglect.
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…
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
To enhance the quality of education offered by the Bastrop Independent Education School District.
To ensure that the services provided by Hospice Brazos Valley will continue in the communities we serve. Contributors to the Hospice Brazos Valley Living Endowment are ensuring the continuance of Hospice Brazos Valley far beyond their…
The mission of the Children's Museum of the Brazos Valley is to provide a child-centered, hands-on, interactive environment for learning and discovery.
Preserve the history of brazoria county, texas.
The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas, especially for programs that relate to the administration of justice; ethics in the legal profession;…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 19 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 Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE BRAZOS VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Hospice Brazos Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION HABITAT FOR HUMANI ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Brazos Valley ↗
- Who funds Bryan ISD Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Health for All Inc ↗
- Who funds S O S Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds College Station ISD Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds S O S MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Voices for Children Inc ↗
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: Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust · Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust · Orr Waldon H and Adele Charitable Trust · Winkler Nina Astin Trust · M Bookman Peters Charitable Foundation · Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust · Lucille and John B Dougherty Trust · Marshall and Ellen Peters Family Foundation · Virginia & Christian Groneman Charitable · Clifton C & Henrietta C Doak Charitable · United Way of the Brazos Valley · Orr James Donald Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mervin and Annete Peters Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mervin and Annete Peters Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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