· Public charity
Womens City Club of Laredo
The organizations mission is to raise funds for the benefit of local charities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $116,990 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $178,586 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $61,596 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Laredo Collage | $13,330 |
| United ISD | $12,856 |
| Junior Achievement of Ldo | $10,000 |
| Laredo ISD | $9,332 |
| Mary Help of Christians School | $9,063 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Laredo Inc | $8,920 |
| United Day School of Laredo Inc | $7,881 |
| Volunteers Serving The Need | $7,465 |
| Ruth B Cowl Rehabilitation Center | $7,150 |
| Mercy Ministries of Laredo | $6,913 |
| Bethany House of Laredo Inc | $6,755 |
| Vidal M Trevino Scholarship Foundation | $6,000 |
| Communities in Schoold Laredo Inc | $6,000 |
| The Laredo Animal Protective Society | $5,325 |
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 (FY17–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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 +49% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 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
- VMVidal M Trevino Scholarship Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $131k · revenue +98%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH TEXAS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +19%
- MMMERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- BOBorder Olympics Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +35%
- CDCASA DE MISERICORDIAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +59%
- BFBEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +9%
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 center is fully operational treatment facility involving child victims of physical and sexual abuse. Children affected by abuse were provided with therapy and professional guidance through the legal and counseling system which the…
The food bank shall distribute purchased and donated food to other charities for distribution to the poor and the needy in the community.
Community theater
Promote creative and cultural attractions by engaging artisitic, commercial and educational entities in order to attract citizens and visitors.
We work with the local animal control officer so that dogs are not euthanized. We provide proper vet care and spay neuter and adopt them to qualified homes. We also help low-income members of our community by giving them dog food and…
To provide temporary lodging for missionaires preparing to leave on humanitarian journeys and to assist them in procuring needed supplies and logistical help.
To be a charitable and educational organization promoting awareness to the community of the dangers of drunk driving and raising funds for education scholarships and humanitarian assistance.
Cancer awareness and support
Financial support for other 501(c)(3) organizations, including accepted health, welfare and recreational agencies.
historic preservation and education
To promote and foster increased literacy in laredo and the surrounding areas. operations are directed by a local voluntary board.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laredo Animal Protective Society and the most unlike its peers is Vidal M Trevino Scholarship Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 Vidal M Trevino Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO ↗
- Who funds Ruthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds Volunteers Serving The Need ↗
- Who funds CALVARY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED DAY SCHOOL OF LAREDO INC ↗
- Who funds Bethany House of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds LAREDO ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds Communities In Schools of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds Operation Peacemaker Inc ↗
- Who funds Border Olympics Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA DE MISERICORDIA ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds LAREDO INTERNATIONAL FAIR & EXPOSITION ↗
- Who funds Kidney Foundation of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds LAREDO CRIME STOPPERS INC ↗
- Who funds LAREDO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 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: Laredo Area Community Foundation · The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · D D Hachar Charitable Trust · United Way of Laredo Inc · Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust · The Prairie Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Matias DE Llano Charitable Trust · A R Tony and Maria J Sanchez Family Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Lauro Lopez Family 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 Womens City Club of Laredo 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.