· Private foundation
Vargas Foundation
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| PUERTO RICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| POTTER SCHOOL DONATION - CLINTON | $1,165 |
| COMMUNITY LINK MISSION | $1,040 |
| OPERATION KINDNESS | $1,000 |
| OPERATION KINDNESS | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH TEXAS | $1,000 |
| SPAY AND NEUTER NETWORK | $500 |
| KNUCKLE BUMP FARMS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| PETSMART CHARITIES | $500 |
| EAGLE MOUNTAIN SAGINAW SCHOOL DISTRICT | $402 |
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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +4%
- CLCOMMUNITY LINK MISSION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +12%
- PCPETSMART CHARITIES INC2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES USAone grant, 2021 · $5k
- GRGRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +55%
- IMINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL AIR EVACUATIONone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Our mission is to save the lives of homeless pets, promote kindness to animals, and advance the highest standards in animal welfare. Our goal is to create an environment in which all rescued animals are given or found a permanent loving…
Provide food, shelter and care for homeless, unwanted, pets. give pets a second chance by adoption. pay medical bills incoming injured animals, assist pet owners with free spay/neuter and medical appointments at veterinarians. educate thr…
Pet community center's mission is to strengthen the human-animal bond through accessible veterinary care and support services.
Our mission is to rescue animals from animal shelters that may otherwise be euthanized due to time limitations, illness, injuries or lack of socialization and training.
One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…
Pet Network rescues adoptable animals from euthanasia, connects abandoned animals with loving families, instills respect for animals through humane education, and enhances lives through animal companionship.
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.
Matching furry friends with their purr-fect homes & offering affordable spay/neuter.
To decrease pet homelessness, increase pet retention and improve the quality of life for pets through education and supportive services for families in need.
The mission of take paws rescue is to meet the moral obligation to protect and save the lives of pets in need of rescue in louisiana. take paws rescue enacts this mission by pulling pets from rural and high kill shelters and preparing them…
Provide low-cost dog and cat spaying and neutering provide shelter, food, and vet care for abandoned animals provide low-cost/no-cost spaying and neutering for feral cats
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Petsmart Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Puerto Rico Community Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LINK MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of North Texas ↗
- Who funds PUERTO RICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KNUCKLE BUMP FARMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds PETSMART CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SPAY NEUTER NETWORK ↗
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.
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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 Vargas 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.
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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.