· Public charity
United Way of the Coastal Bend Inc
The mission of United Way of the Coastal Bend, Inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 52 grants below total $2,656,759 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,461,754 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $804,995 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 $10k9 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $655k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Family Counseling Service | $192,475 |
| The Purple Door | $191,911 |
| Driscoll Children's Hospital | $190,466 |
| Wesley Community Center | $186,832 |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Coastal Bend | $141,565 |
| Neighborhood Centers of Corpus Christi | $138,156 |
| Catholic Charities of Corpus Christi | $95,931 |
| Corpus Christi Metro Ministries | $95,265 |
| Goodwill Industries of South Texas | $94,626 |
| Salvation Army Corpus Christi | $92,987 |
| Greenwood Molina Children's Center | $91,126 |
| Cenikor Foundation | $74,964 |
| Girl Scouts of Greater South Texas | $67,180 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Alice | $59,668 |
| Scouting America | $56,996 |
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 (FY19–25, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- WSWOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +121%
- DCDriscoll Children's Hospital9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +178%
- FCFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +35%
Funded once
- GCGOLDEN CRESCENT HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -77%
- PAPORT ARANSAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $36k · revenue -90%
- IUIngleside United Methodist Churchone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Child Advocacy
To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.
To continuously improve the lives of South Texans by providing high quality health care, education, housing and economic opportunities to reduce poverty through services and partnerships.
To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…
Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. provides a voice, heals the hurt and breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for children in Fort Bend County.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
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…
Train volunteers to advocate for children in court directed foster care.
To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.
San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.
Provide support to foster children and at risk families in Comal County Texas. Provide emergency support to victims of child abuse.
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 Charlies Place Recovery Center. 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 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 78 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 WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Driscoll Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF CC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL BEND INC ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD MOLINA NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHARLIES PLACE RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ALICE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BEEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGIO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SOUTH TEXAS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds YWCA CORPUS CHRISTI ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds Mary Mcleod Bethune Early Childhood Development Dev ↗
- Who funds LIVE OAK COUNTY CHILD WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds AMISTAD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Atascosa Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HALO FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS PROMOTING MEDICAL EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KINGSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ARANSAS PASS FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE-COASTAL BEND ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEND FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C ↗
- Who funds MOTHER TERESA SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY-CORPUS CHRISTI INC ↗
- Who funds SINTON FOR YOUTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds USO OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI HOPE HOUSE 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: Coastal Bend Community Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Behmann Brothers Foundation · Ed Rachal Foundation · Allen Lovelace Moore and Blanche Davis Moore Foundation · Earl C Sams Foundation Inc · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Cheniere Foundation · Puente de Maravillas Foundation · James R Dougherty Jr Foundation Inc · Christus Health · American Electric Power 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 the Coastal Bend 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.
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