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Rotary Club of Brownsville Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Rotary Club of Brownsville Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$42kArts & Culture$35kHealth$18kHuman Services$17kPhilanthropy$13kHousing & Shelter$12kYouth Development$500
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$302k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWSVILLE MUSEUM OF FINE ART$5,000
PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO$5,000
OZANAM CENTER$5,000
GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE$5,000
MOODY CLINIC$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 26%THE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC: $7k → 23%OZANAM CENTER: $5k → 23%PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO: $7k → 23%PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO: $5k → 23%SUNSHINE HAVEN: $1k → 23%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $5k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$115k · 8 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +104% since the first grant, against +103% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$115k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%
+103%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VZ
    VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +42%
  • BS
    BROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED
    4× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +193%
  • TB
    THE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • CO
    COSTUMES OF THE AMERICAS
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNBSVILLE
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • DD
    DONJAS DOGSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +103%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History

To stimulate understanding of natural and cultural history, and to encourage responsible stewardship of all natural resources.

Arts & Culture
2
Sunnyside Street Dogs I

Community dog rescue focused on saving and rehoming street dogs in Houston.

Animals
3
South Texas Zoological Society

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…

Animals
4
Childrens Museum of the Brazos Valley

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Bosque Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Midland Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
7
The Brownson Home Inc
Housing & Shelter
8
Buena Vista Museum of Natural History

Educate and involve the community through recovering, preserving, and displaying local and worldwide natural history objects.

Arts & Culture
9
Casa Dolores Co Claudia Mclaughlin
Arts & Culture
10
Llano County Historical Society Inc

historic preservation and education

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11
Rancho Burro Donkey Sanctuary
Animals
12
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Proyecto Juan Diego Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $29,880 · AnimalsVALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYVALLEY ZOOLOGICAL ENDOWMENT: $10,000 · AnimalsVALLEY ZOOLOGICAL ENDOWMENTDONJAS DOGS: $2,000 · AnimalsTHE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesTHE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN P…PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesPROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INCGood Neighbor Settlement House Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesGood Neighbor Settlement…SUNSHINE HAVEN INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesBrownsville Historical Association: $11,500 · OtherBrownsville Historica…COSTUMES OF THE AMERICAS: $5,000 · OtherCOSTUMES OF THE AMERI…BTX ART LEAGUE: $5,000 · OtherBTX ART LEAGUECHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNBSVILLE: $4,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF …+1 more: $500 · OtherBROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $17,000 · HealthBROWNSVILLE SO…UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY: $13,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC: $9,500 · Youth Development
Animals$41,880Human Services$30,000Other$26,000Health$17,000Philanthropy$13,000Youth Development$9,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $29,880 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $17,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY: $13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBrownsville Historical Association: $11,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetVALLEY ZOOLOGICAL ENDOWMENT: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC: $9,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGood Neighbor Settlement House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBTX ART LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSUNSHINE HAVEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Serafy FoundationBrownsville Foundatio…Neal & Lourdes Simmon…Rio Grande Valley Phi…Valley Baptist Legacy…Raul Tijerina Jr Foun…Rotary Club of Browns…Hernandez FoundationJules D Gosseaux Foun…The Roy F & Joann Col…Communities Foundatio…The Blackbaud Giving …
Serafy FoundationTX26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rotary Club of Brownsville Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotary Club of Brownsville Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Rotary Club of Brownsville Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rotary Club of Brownsville Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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