Texas · Nonprofit
GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS
GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,335 to it, the largest being Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc ($104,697). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $374k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $237k
- Net assets
- $28k
What Grow Local South Texas does
Mission
Our mission is to grow a healthy local community by improving access to, education about and advocacy for affordable nutrient dense foods with children's teaching gardens, our farmers market, producer education and community outreach.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The mission of Grow Local South Texas is to grow a healthy local community by improving access to, education about, and advocacy for affordable nutrient dense foods. Our programming to achieve this mission consists of the grow local farmers' market every wednesday, providing local food access in the downtown corpus christi area with an average of 250 customers a week and 25 local food vendors. We provide free in-school and after-school education in gardening, sustainability and nutrition to around 250 students during the school year as well as two multi-week gardening summer camps and 2 week long children's cooking camps. We attend monthly community outreach events, providing healthy recipe cards, planting and harvest guides, and additional all-natural agriculture and healthy eating information to our community. We have a year-round community garden management program which includes gardener education and we host our annual small food producers conference which provides a day of education to local farmers, ranchers and small food producers to help them with all-natural agricultural methods, understanding texas food and agriculture laws, and small business development.
$323,644 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $323,644.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $94k to $36k (−62%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
85% of GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $62k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 98% · 2020 54% · 2021 76% · 2022 31% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
100% of GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
96% of GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS?
- GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,335 to it, the largest being Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc ($104,697). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $237,335 in grants to GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS?
- Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc is the largest funder on record, with $104,697 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROW LOCAL SOUTH TEXAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing