· Private foundation
Vargas Foundation
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +15%
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vargas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vargas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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