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The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$300k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$300k60%
FY20231$45k0%
FY20226$153k50%
FY20219$170k89%
FY20202$21k50%
FY20185$75k80%
FY20174$25kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$291kHuman Services$130kReligion$93kArts & Culture$57kEducation$55kRecreation & Sports$50kCrime & Legal$34kInternational$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Laredo Children's Museum Inc$57,000414%
Laredo Stroke Support Group Inc$50,000229%
Operation Walk- Women Orthopaedist Global Outreach$49,000215%
Literacy Volunteers of America - Laredo$34,000232%
Voz De Ninos$34,000212%
Ruthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center$33,00011%
Laredo Tennis Association$30,000312%
Casa de Misericordia$25,00021%
Laredo Parkinsons Support Group$25,0001n/a
Club Rotario Nuevo Santander Inc$25,000117%
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All grantees of The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Laredo Children's Museum Inc$57,000414%
Laredo Stroke Support Group Inc$50,000229%
Operation Walk- Women Orthopaedist Global Outreach$49,000215%
Literacy Volunteers of America - Laredo$34,000232%
Voz De Ninos$34,000212%
Ruthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center$33,00011%
Laredo Tennis Association$30,000312%
Casa de Misericordia$25,00021%
Laredo Parkinsons Support Group$25,0001n/a
Club Rotario Nuevo Santander Inc$25,000117%
Laredo Junior Golf Association$20,0001n/a
Bethany House of Laredo Inc$20,00012%
Mercy Ministries of Laredo$20,00011%
Rio Grande Valley Ministries$15,0001n/a
Smiles From Heaven$15,00017%
Catholic Charities Inc$15,00010%
Texas A&M Foundation$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($321k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLaredo Children's Museum Inc: $57,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetLaredo Stroke Support Group Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetOperation Walk- Women Orthopaedist Global Outreach: $49,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers of America - Laredo: $34,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetVoz De Ninos: $34,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetRuthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center: $33,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLaredo Tennis Association: $30,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCasa de Misericordia: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetClub Rotario Nuevo Santander Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBethany House of Laredo Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMercy Ministries of Laredo: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSmiles From Heaven: $15,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCatholic Charities Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez FoundationTX20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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About The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation

How much does The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation give?
The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (37%), Human Services (16%), Religion (12%).
Who are The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Laredo Children's Museum Inc ($57k), Laredo Stroke Support Group Inc ($50k), Operation Walk- Women Orthopaedist Global Outreach ($49k).
Does The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation, The Prairie Foundation, Laredo Area Community Foundation.
Where is The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation based?
The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 29 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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