· Private foundation
Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of NEAL & LOURDES SIMMONS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $40,050 |
| DRISCOLL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| MOODY CLINIC | $2,700 |
| GUADALUPE REGIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| GLADYS PORTER ZOO | $1,250 |
| FOOD BANK RGV INC | $1,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $360 |
| TIP OF TEXAS FAMILY OUTREACH | $200 |
| SUNNY GLEN CHILDREN'S HOME | $200 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $100 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $100 |
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 (FY20–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, 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 +28% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 18 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
- BSBROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +231%
- VZVALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +24%
- SHSUNSHINE HAVEN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- VZVALLEY ZOOLOGICAL ENDOWMENTone grant, 2020 · $63k · revenue -5%
- DCDRISCOLL'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $2k
- OLOUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $2k
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 create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 48 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 VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds Driscoll Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds BROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds TIP of Texas Family Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds BTX ART LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CAMILLE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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: Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education · Serafy Foundation · Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation · Rotary Club of Brownsville Charitable Foundation · Rio Grande Valley Philanthropic Foundation · Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation · Jules D Gosseaux Foundation Inc · Rotary Club of Brownsville Sunrise Texas USA Inc · The Roy F & Joann Cole Mitte Foundation · The Farris Foundation · Earl C Sams Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company 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 Neal & Lourdes Simmons 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.