How much does The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation give?

The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $1,305,775 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (16%), Arts & Culture (13%).

Who are The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: South Texas Food Bank ($825k), Ruthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center ($635k), Bethany House of Laredo Inc ($592k).

Does The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include D D Hachar Charitable Trust, Laredo Area Community Foundation, Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust.

Where is The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation based?

The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation is based in TX.

The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation

The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.1MHealth$2.1MArts & Culture$1.8MFood & Nutrition$1.6MReligion$1.3MHousing & Shelter$811kHuman Services$697kYouth Development$635kOther$0

02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $103k
$10k–50k20 grants · $454k
$50k–250k11 grants · $748k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$35M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Texas A&M International University	$100,000
South Texas Food Bank	$90,000
Ruth B Cowl's Rehabilitation Center	$80,000
Habitat for Humanity of Laredo - Webb County	$75,000
Mercy Ministries	$75,000
PILLAR	$68,000
Casa De Misericordia	$60,000
Junior Achievement of Laredo	$50,000
Laredo Theater Guild International	$50,000
Bethany House	$50,000
Texas A&M Foundation	$50,000
Rio Grande International Study Center	$40,000
Boys and Girls Clubs of Laredo	$40,000
Diocese of Laredo	$40,000
River Pierce Foundation	$40,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $731k) 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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$13M · 59 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

59 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%

+446%

Still filing today

64%

20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther

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

ST
SOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
8× · 2017–2024 · $825k · revenue +100%
RB
Ruthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center
8× · 2017–2024 · $635k · revenue +146%
BH
Bethany House of Laredo Inc
7× · 2017–2024 · $592k · revenue +112%

Funded once

AE
AZTECA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PRESERVATION CORPORATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +446%
UD
United Day School
one grant, 2017 · $10k
DL
Dr Leo Cigarroa High School
one grant, 2017 · $9k

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.

Laredo Cultural District Inc

Promote creative and cultural attractions by engaging artisitic, commercial and educational entities in order to attract citizens and visitors.

Arts & Culture

Laredo Area Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy

Aspiring Texas Latinos Achieving Success Together

La tiendita is a resource and empowerment center whose mission is to provide access to healthy and affordable food options and help latino students and others to graduate, attain secondary education and become leaders in their school and…

Community Improvement

Texas State Lulac

The mission of lulac is to advance the economic condition, political, housing, health & civil rights of the hispanic population

Human Services

Llano Chamber of Commerce

To assist the local business, governmental and individual community in developing better business relationships and to increase the local revenue base by encouraging tourism and business development.

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Cen-Tex Hispanic Chamber of Comm

Lead and promote the business economic, social and cultural development of the Hispanic and small business community.

Community Improvement

Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies

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Ldf Nonprofit Foundation

The purpose of the Corporation is to stimulate economic development in the Laredo and surrounding areas, which will be accomplished by supporting business investment and growth through services offered by our Corporation, including support…

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United Way of Laredo Inc

Financial support for other 501(c)(3) organizations, including accepted health, welfare and recreational agencies.

Philanthropy

Llano County Historical Society Inc

historic preservation and education

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Habitat for Humanity of Laredo Inc

Habitat for Humanity of Laredo Inc is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International Inc. A nondenominational Christian nonprofit organization. Our stated purpose is to create decent affordable housing for those in need and to make…

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Texas Latino Pride

Promote and Celebrate the diverse Hispanic/Latinx culture within our diverse communities

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laredo Theater Guild International Inc; the most unlike its peers is South Texas Advancement Resource. 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

41 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. 41 of the 65 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/41

Grantees still filing

32/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$7,317,617Arts & Culture$1,157,147Health$1,155,000Human Services$1,096,450Community Improvement$1,035,250Education$1,026,545Environment$465,250

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.

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.

D D Hachar Charitable TrustPA39.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: D D Hachar Charitable Trust · Laredo Area Community Foundation · Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust · United Way of Laredo Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Womens City Club of Laredo · The Prairie Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · A R Tony and Maria J Sanchez Family Foundation · The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation · Matias DE Llano Charitable Trust · Greater Houston Community Foundation

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 The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report 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.

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