· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Imaginarium of So Texas | $45,000 |
| Laredo Walk to End Alzheimer's | $30,000 |
| Club Rotario Nuevo Santander | $25,000 |
| Laredo Parkinson's Support Group | $25,000 |
| Laredo Stroke Support Group | $25,000 |
| Sacred Heart Children's Home | $20,000 |
| Women Orthopedist Global Outreach | $20,000 |
| Laredo Junior Golf Association | $20,000 |
| Salesian Priests of St John Bosco | $15,000 |
| Casa de Misericordia | $15,000 |
| Rio Grande Valley Ministries | $15,000 |
| Smiles from Heaven | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Literacy Volunteers of Laredo | $10,000 |
| Laredo Tennis Association | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 9 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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
- OWOPERATION WALK- WOMEN ORTHOPAEDIST GLOBAL OUTREACH2× · 2021–2022 · $49k · revenue +62%
- VDVoz De Ninos2× · 2021–2022 · $34k · revenue +8%
- LTLaredo Tennis Association3× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- RBRuthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Centerone grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue +4%
- SDSalesianos de San Luis Reyone grant, 2021 · $25k
- JAJunior Achievement of Laredoone grant, 2022 · $24k
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.
Lone star circle of care provides exceptional and accessible patient centered healthcare for our texas neighbors, focusing on the underserved.
The center is fully operational treatment facility involving child victims of physical and sexual abuse. Children affected by abuse were provided with therapy and professional guidance through the legal and counseling system which the…
Our missiob is to empower latin american women
Provide education, advocacy, and support to spanish speaking individuals affected by violence and injustice in virginia to ensure that they can access services to empower them to become happy, healthy, and self- sufficient.
Charitable non profit At A SIsters Legacy our mission is to create stability through innovative therapeutic experiences Our mission is to Make Accessible Care in honor of Marissa Ann Carrillo Therapy through A Sisters Legacy encourages a…
To Support Service of Health Related Missions in South Texas
A cooperative effort to leverage our collective strength, resources, and exertise to improve healthcare. To that end we work with local leaders
Laredo alliance is a texas nonprofit organization led by immigrants and allies dedicated to advocating for immigrant rights. this commitment is realized through community engagement, education, research and organizing efforts. our mission…
Our mission is to foster community well-being in partnership with our patients by providing excellent, accessible, family-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care. our vision is "healthy lives for all in a healthy santa fe"…
Compassionately serving forgotten overlooked neglected and underserved adults in the Garland and Dallas County area by providing free dental and vision care building trusting relationships and sharing hope.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Ministries of Laredo and the most unlike its peers is Voz De Ninos. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 29 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 LAREDO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LAREDO STROKE SUPPORT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION WALK- WOMEN ORTHOPAEDIST GLOBAL OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA - LAREDO ↗
- Who funds Voz De Ninos ↗
- Who funds Ruthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds Laredo Tennis Association ↗
- Who funds CLUB ROTARIO NUEVO SANTANDER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA DE MISERICORDIA ↗
- Who funds Bethany House of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Smiles From Heaven ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
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: 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
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 The Lauro Lopez Family 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.