· Public charity
United Way of Northern Cameron County
To provide support for various community organizations.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CAMERON COUNTY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARLINGEN | $33,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN BENITO | $30,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES OF THE RGV | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $20,000 |
| FAMILY CRISIS CENTER | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| RIO GRANDE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| VALLEY AIDS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| LITERACY CENTER OF HARLINGEN | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $371k) 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. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 HARLINGEN7× · 2017–2023 · $314k · revenue +32%
- LALOAVES AND FISHES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $235k · revenue +5%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SAN BENITO7× · 2017–2023 · $204k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC2× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue -6%
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.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
To inspire and empower all young people who pass through our doors to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
To promote the health, social, educational, vocational and character development of youth in and around Lamar County, Texas.
To save and enhance the lives of the young people of our community, especially those with economic and or social needs, by offering a safe haven and meaningful youth development programs provided by a caring and qualified staff.
Provide activities for children to help youths of all backgrounds, with special concern for those from disadvantaged circumstances, develop the qualities needed to become responsible citizens / leaders.
The childrens advocacy center of hidalgo county, inc. provides services to abused children. services include on-site referrals for medical services. the organization follows up with authorities on efforts against the perpetrators of the…
To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.
Enable young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances to realize their full potential as productive, responsible & caring citizens.
The hero's haven child advocacy center is a child-focused, facility-based program where forensic interviews of children sexually abused by out-of-home perpetrators, or where there is a cooperative parent/custodian, are conducted, where…
To provide guidance to youth.
To provide general, after school and day care, recreational, educational and social services for youths 2 through 18.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Bereavement Center of the Rio Grande Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rio Grande Habitat for Humanityinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 16 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 HARLINGEN ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SAN BENITO ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMERON COUNTY CHILDREN ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HARLINGEN NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds RIO GRANDE HABITAT FOR HUMANITYINC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CENTER OF HARLINGEN ↗
- Who funds VALLEY AIDS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds HARLINGEN AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation · Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Northern Cameron County 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.
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