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Rio Grande Valley Philanthropic Foundation
The mission of the RIO GRANDE VALLEY PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION is to improve the quality of life for people in brownsville by promoting philanthropy, building permanent charitable endowments and addressing community needs.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of RIO GRANDE VALLEY PHILANTHROPIC 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.
The 10 grants below total $161,969 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $282,469 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $120,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOMER HANNA HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| THE FM AREA FOUNDATION | $26,830 |
| TEXAS CULTURAL TRUST COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| BROWNSVILLE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $17,139 |
| TSC FOUNDATION FBO IT VOCATIONAL SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| THE GLADYS PORTER ZOO | $10,000 |
| TEXAS SOUTHMOST COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GUADALUPE REGIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| RGV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $8,000 |
| UNITED CAJUN NAVY | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +74% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
- TCTexas Cultural Trust Council2× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +76%
- SHSUNSHINE HAVEN INC2× · 2020–2022 · $16k · revenue +28%
- TOTIP of Texas Family Outreach Inc2× · 2017–2020 · $14k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- UWUnited Way of SoCam Countyone grant, 2020 · $15k
- GRGuadalupe Regional Middle Schoolone grant, 2017 · $10k
- BIBROWNSVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.
To provide nutrition and home essentials to low income families
The associations mission is to provide a free public library for the residents of brownwood and brown county, texas
To stimulate understanding of natural and cultural history, and to encourage responsible stewardship of all natural resources.
To provide community-centered prenatal care and health education to medically indigent pregnant women in the Brazos Valley. Comprehensive, accessible and affordable prenatal care and health education are the best ways to improve pregnancy…
The bossier arts council is dedicated to promoting, supporting, and providing cultural events and programming in order to enhance the quality of life and to develope a cultural identity for bossier parish.
Preserve the history of brazoria county, texas.
CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.
Provides community services, empowers youth, creates and implements programs and projects to build communities by maximizing resources, empowering residents and enhancing public safety
To present live theatrical productions and develop the performing arts enriching the cultural and diverse life of our regional community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Proyecto Juan Diego Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sunshine Haven 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 42 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 FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOMER HANNA HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Texas Cultural Trust Council ↗
- Who funds Texas Southmost College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BTX ART LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds TIP of Texas Family Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Friendship of Women Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CAMERON & WILLACY COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds BROWNSVILLE WELLNESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds South Texas Symphony Association Inc ↗
- Who funds United Cajun Navy ↗
- Who funds BROWNSVILLE JUNIOR SERVICE LEAGUE CLINICS AND CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BROWNSVILLE LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY COMMUNITIES OF BROWNSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds BROWNSVILLE ANIMAL DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds CAMILLE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds INFANT AND FAMILY NUTRITION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds MITTE CULTURAL DISTRICT ↗
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 Sunrise Texas USA Inc · Rotary Club of Brownsville Charitable Foundation · Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation · United Way of Southern Cameron County · Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation · Jules D Gosseaux Foundation Inc · The Roy F & Joann Cole Mitte Foundation · Musk Foundation · Hernandez 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 Rio Grande Valley Philanthropic 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.
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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