· Public charity
United Way of Laredo Inc
Financial support for other 501(c)(3) organizations, including accepted health, welfare and recreational agencies.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $295k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $501k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sacred Heart Childrens Home | $140,500 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Laredo | $110,300 |
| Bethany House | $73,200 |
| Salvation Army | $72,500 |
| South Texas Food Bank | $52,000 |
| Casa de Misericordia | $52,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Zapata | $33,000 |
| Childrens Advocacy Center | $32,000 |
| Communities In School Laredo | $27,000 |
| Laredo Animal Protective Soci | $26,250 |
| Gateway Community Health Cent | $24,500 |
| Kidney Foundation of Laredo | $23,000 |
| Boys Scouts of America S TX | $22,500 |
| Girls Scouts of Greater South | $20,000 |
| Laredo Crime Stoppers | $18,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $559k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 25%. 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.
23 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BABoys and Girls Club of Laredo Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $881k · revenue +46%
- BHBethany House of Laredo Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $506k · revenue +112%
- CDCASA DE MISERICORDIA7× · 2017–2024 · $392k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- HIHOLDING INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +226%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +80%
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.
Child Advocacy
Promote creative and cultural attractions by engaging artisitic, commercial and educational entities in order to attract citizens and visitors.
Financial support for other 501(c)(3) organizations, including accepted health, welfare and recreational agencies.
To advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…
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.
The food bank shall distribute purchased and donated food to other charities for distribution to the poor and the needy in the community.
To promote the health, social, educational, vocational and character development of youth in and around Lamar County, Texas.
Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…
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…
Provide medical services to individuals who do not have medical care services due to their economic status.
To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.
Improving the quality of life of the Latino Community through leadership, services, advocacy, and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pillar. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 25 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 Boys and Girls Club of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds Bethany House of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA DE MISERICORDIA ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Childrens Advocacy Center of Laredo-Web ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Zapata County Inc ↗
- Who funds LAREDO ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Communities In Schools of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds Gateway Community Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SOUTH TEXAS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Kidney Foundation of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds LAREDO CRIME STOPPERS INC ↗
- Who funds Ruthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds Serving Children & Adults in Need Inc S C A N INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA - LAREDO ↗
- Who funds Laredo HSDA HIVAIDS Consortia ↗
- Who funds LAREDO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LAREDO CANCER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PILLAR ↗
- Who funds HOLDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS 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: The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust · Laredo Area Community Foundation · Womens City Club of Laredo · Matias DE Llano Charitable Trust · D D Hachar Charitable Trust · Greater Houston Community Foundation · A R Tony and Maria J Sanchez Family Foundation · The Lauro Lopez Family Foundation · North Texas Charitable 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 United Way of Laredo Inc 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.