· Private foundation
Raymond Martin & Melba P Gutierrez Charitable Trust
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAREDO COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| SACRED HEARTS CHILDRENS HOME | $25,000 |
| TEXAS AM ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STU | $25,000 |
| TEXAS AM NATIONAL HISPANIC | $25,000 |
| DIVINE MERCY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $25,000 |
| MARY HELP CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CLUB ROTARIO SANTANDER | $25,000 |
| SANTA MAGARITA DE ESCOCIA CATHOLIC | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +62% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATexas A&M Foundation4× · 2017–2023 · $364k · revenue +90%
- LCLaredo College Education Foundation2× · 2022–2023 · $75k · revenue +9%
PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS2× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- AOASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OFone grant, 2022 · $50k
- AHAREA HEALTH ED CNTR MID RIO GRANDE BORDER AREA OF TEXAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +48%
- TATEXAS A&M ASSOCIATION OF STUDENTSone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
The mission of the Lamar State College Port Arthur Foundation is to promote advance support encourage sponsor aid and advocate solely for Lamar State College Port Arthur.
To inspire by generosity and empower by a legacy of giving, the Laredo Area Community Foundation provides for the philanthropic needs of Laredo and surrounding communities.
The western texas college foundation serves western texas college by soliciting, receiving, and administering gifts and grants for student scholarships, educational and cultural activities, and campus facility improvement and development.
The purpose of the Laredo Tennis Association (a Texas nonprofit corporation) is to promote national or international amateur sports competition and grow the game of tennis in Laredo, TX and the surrounding areas among all age groups of…
The Foundation supports the development and promotion of Lamar University, its students, faculty and staff. The Lamar University Foundation supports and enhances Lamar University by encouraging the commitment of personal and financial…
Lead and promote the business economic, social and cultural development of the Hispanic and small business community.
historic preservation and education
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 36 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.
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Raymond Martin & Melba P Gutierrez Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raymond Martin & Melba P Gutierrez Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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