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Rotary Club of Brownsville Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE | $5,000 |
| BROWSVILLE MUSEUM OF FINE ART | $5,000 |
| PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO | $5,000 |
| OZANAM CENTER | $5,000 |
| MOODY CLINIC | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 26%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +104% since the first grant, against +103% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- VZVALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY5× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +42%
- BSBROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED4× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +193%
- TBTHE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC2× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- COCOSTUMES OF THE AMERICASone grant, 2019 · $5k
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNBSVILLEone grant, 2017 · $4k
- DDDONJAS DOGSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +103%
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 stimulate understanding of natural and cultural history, and to encourage responsible stewardship of all natural resources.
Community dog rescue focused on saving and rehoming street dogs in Houston.
Operation of the texas zoo in victoria, texas and connect people with the wildlife from texas and the rest of the world, for nature and advance conservation through education, recreation, science and action. the mission is accomplished…
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.
The bosque museum is dedicated to protect & preserve bosque county's historic & prehistoric resources for the use, education, enjoyment, & economic benefit of the public it serves.
The Midland Historial Society is a diverse community of members formed to educate the citizens of Midland, Texas, about its history,to assist in the operation of the Midland County History Museum, and to maintain the historic Brown Dorsey…
Educate and involve the community through recovering, preserving, and displaying local and worldwide natural history objects.
historic preservation and education
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Proyecto Juan Diego Inc and the most unlike its peers is Donjas Dogs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 15 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 VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds Brownsville Historical Association ↗
- Who funds VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc ↗
- Who funds BTX ART LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DONJAS DOGS ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE HAVEN 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: Serafy Foundation · Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education · Neal & Lourdes Simmons Foundation · Rio Grande Valley Philanthropic Foundation · Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation · Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation · Rotary Club of Brownsville Sunrise Texas USA Inc · Hernandez Foundation · Jules D Gosseaux Foundation Inc · The Roy F & Joann Cole Mitte Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Rotary Club of Brownsville Charitable 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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