· Private foundation
Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $514k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $30,000 |
| HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTH | $25,000 |
| SEA TURTLE INC | $25,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| CATCH THE NEXT INC | $25,000 |
| SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE IN | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EDINGBURG RGV | $25,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| GIRLS SCOUT OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS | $25,000 |
| BIG HEROES INC | $25,000 |
| FORM COMMUNITIES | $25,000 |
| SOUTH TEXAS LITERACY COALITION | $25,000 |
| GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $462k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 11 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k 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
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC4× · 2017–2022 · $102k · revenue +95%
- STSOUTH TEXAS JUVENILE DIABETES ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +227%
THE TSTC FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $70k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- BCBOYS CLUB OF PHARRgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +254%
- RJROY & JOANN COLE MITTE CULTURAL DISone grant, 2022 · $30k
- ALAmerican Legion Post 205graduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue ×13 · 71% of their budget
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 ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
Child Advocacy
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
Good Samaritan Foundation (GSF) is a fundraising and grant-making organization dedicated solely to Texas nursing. Its mission is to increase the number of nurses dedicated to clinical care and to improve the quality of nurse education and…
South Texas Rural Health Services, Inc. provides charitable health services, including the recruitment of health care personnel to the rural service area, and primarily serves the low income population.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
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.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
To provide a place for children to go where they will have supervised activities, arts, crafts, and recreation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Legion Post 205. 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
94 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. 94 of the 193 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 CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS JUVENILE DIABETES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CATCH THE NEXT INC ↗
- Who funds THE TSTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEAM MARIO ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS LITERACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SEA TURTLE INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIG HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPABLE KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friendship of Women Inc ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DEL VALLE INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS ↗
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: Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Knapp Community Care Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education · The Moody Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Serafy Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Jules D Gosseaux Foundation Inc · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800
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 Raul Tijerina Jr 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.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% 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.
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