Texas · Nonprofit
LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I
LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $516,693 to it, the largest being Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation ($371,146). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $517k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council Corp I does
Mission
Primary Exempt Purpose: To access local and state resources that can be utilized in conjuction with the Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council, a regional council of government in Texas.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
4th Annual Vet Fest
$875 spent48% of program spendingLiife
$249 spent14% of program spendingPower in Community
$695 spent38% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,819.
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 $5k to $61k (+1128%).
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.
0% of LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Manuel Cruz
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $31k.
From the IRS filings of LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I’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
LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 87% · 2020 91% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
72% of LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $70.7M on record.
- Department of Transportation$69.1M
- Department of Commerce$1.5M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$40k
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 LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I: 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 LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I?
- LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $516,693 to it, the largest being Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation ($371,146). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $516,693 in grants to LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I?
- Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $371,146 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CORP I 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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