· Private foundation
Raul Tijerina Jr 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 $10k11 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $514k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $30,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EDINGBURG RGV | $25,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| CATCH THE NEXT INC | $25,000 |
| SEA TURTLE INC | $25,000 |
| FORM COMMUNITIES | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE IN | $25,000 |
| BIG HEROES INC | $25,000 |
| SOUTH TEXAS LITERACY COALITION | $25,000 |
| HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTH | $25,000 |
| GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| GIRLS SCOUT OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS | $25,000 |
| SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA | $25,000 |
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +16% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC4× · 2017–2022 · $102k · revenue +95%
- STSOUTH TEXAS JUVENILE DIABETES ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +528%
- TMTEAM MARIO2× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- BCBOYS CLUB OF PHARRgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +254%
- CHCOMFORT HOUSE SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -26%
- ALAmerican Legion Post 205graduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue ×14 · 71% of their budget
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 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.
How this is measured
94 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. 94 of the 193 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 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 TEAM MARIO ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TSTC FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DEL VALLE INC ↗
- Who funds Friendship of Women Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPABLE KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF PHARR ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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