· Private foundation
Rio-South Texas Education and Community Development Foundation Inc
The organization's mission is to ensure residents acquire skills and knowledge and have access to economic opportunities to pursue meaningful careers and live prosperous lives in rio south texas.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of RIO-SOUTH TEXAS EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $610k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY | $1,000,000 |
| TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $250,000 |
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| THE TSTC FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE TSTC FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| LCC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $132,515 |
| VALLEY GRANDE INSTITUTE | $127,000 |
| LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD | $25,000 |
| LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of your 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 +86% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $912k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY2× · 2022–2024 · $2.5M
THE TSTC FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +86%- STSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE2× · 2020–2021 · $443k
Funded once
- TATEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $750k
- LCLAREDO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -29%
- SJST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $25k
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 Lamar State College Port Arthur Foundation is to promote advance support encourage sponsor aid and advocate solely for Lamar State College Port Arthur.
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.
Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).
The foundation supports west texas a&m university, an institution of higher education, and the students of wtamu by receiving and administering gifts from the public.
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…
The Foundation was formed to be a vital partner with Texas A&M University-Kingsville by developing donor relationships and linking resources in the pursuit of the University's goals of excellence.Values: Service to the University and the…
To receive contributions by means of donations, gifts, and bequests and to expend such funds for the advancement of the literary, scientific, and other educational endeavors of Midwestern State University, a tax exempt institution of…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
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.
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.
Support Teachers and Students with Grants and Scholarships
To support and further the mission of texas state university through the acceptance and investment of gifts established as endowments benefiting the students, faculty and staff.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Texas Am International University Alumni Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 THE TSTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Laredo College Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds Texas AM International University Alumni Association ↗
- Who funds LAREDO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of McAllen Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS 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: American Electric Power Foundation · BBVA Foundation · Amazonsmile 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-South Texas Education and Community Development Foundation Inc 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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