· Public charity
United Way of Southern Cameron County
The UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY's mission is to "improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities to advance the common good".
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN 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.
The 14 grants below total $400,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $410,414 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,414 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $343k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LOS FRESNOS | $40,000 |
| GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE | $40,000 |
| OZANAM CENTER | $35,000 |
| TIP OF TEXAS FAMILY OUTREACH | $33,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CAMERON COUNTY | $32,500 |
| FRIENDSHIP OF WOMEN | $30,000 |
| BROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN AKA MOODY CLINIC | $30,000 |
| CAMERON COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $27,000 |
| LAGUNA MADRE YOUTH CENTER | $20,000 |
| DERRY ELEMENTARY | $20,000 |
| GARRIGA ELEMENTARY | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE | $15,000 |
| GUADALUPE REGIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $547k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 27%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 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
- LFLOS FRESNOS EDUCATIONAL & RECREATIO N CLUB INC9× · 2017–2025 · $376k · revenue +49%
- BSBROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $346k · revenue +210%
- TOTIP of Texas Family Outreach Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $332k · revenue +15%
Funded once
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.
CVWDB was founded to provide policy and program guidance for the workforce development and training programs and operate these programs in a manner that would create sustainable economic opportunities for all residents of the of the 13…
To educate and train troubled youth to become productive citizens
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…
QCS provides early childhood development and childcare program services to children from underserved and disadvantaged families. The programs are funded by various governmental entities and are located in the counties of Los Angeles Madera…
To provide comprehensive educational opportunities for preschool children from low-income families; to provide alternatives in childcare for children of low-income families; (continued on Schedule O)
It is the purpose of the Center to deliver the highest quality childcare, youth and adult development services to lower income families and the growing immigrant population in Bridgehampton and surrounding communities through educational…
CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.
Ccdc's mission is to provide the highest quality educational childcare services to families with children from infancy through their preschool years.
To provide facilities and personnel for part time care, supervision and guidance of children and provide healthful and developmental opportunities based on need.
Provide Educational Programs, Health Services and Legal Services to Farm Workers at housing sites and throughout the Salinas Valley and promote improved living conditions.
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
The center's primary function is to provide day care to children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cameron County Children Advocacy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Valley Initiative for Development and Advancement. 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 17 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 LOS FRESNOS EDUCATIONAL & RECREATIO N CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TIP of Texas Family Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Cameron County ↗
- Who funds Friendship of Women Inc ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD ↗
- Who funds CAMERON COUNTY CHILDREN ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROWNSVILLE LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA MADRE YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds VALLEY INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds CAMERON WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds INFANT AND FAMILY NUTRITION AGENCY ↗
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: Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education · Rio Grande Valley Philanthropic Foundation · Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation · Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation · Rotary Club of Brownsville Sunrise Texas USA Inc · The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · 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 Southern 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.