Texas · Nonprofit
St Mary's University
St Mary's University (Texas) receives grants from 129 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,458,912 to it, the largest being Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation ($2,525,010). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundationshared funderslocal
- Minnesota Private College Fundportfolio match
- Tr Uw Geo L Leech King St Ferdinand IIIportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 7% · 2021 10% · 2022 11% · 2023 6% · 2024 8% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $2.3M.
18 of 129 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $142k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St Mary's Alumni Association). These are real filings, and they are not money St Mary's University raised.
From the IRS filings of St Mary's University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 129 funders by total. 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
St Mary's University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
39% 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 St Mary's University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2018 43% · 2019 14% · 2020 12% · 2021 11% · 2022 41% · 2023 11% — 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.
How long its funders stay
41% of St Mary's University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
95% of St Mary's University's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 129 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 60 organizations that share your funders · funds 103 organizations near you
- Minnesota Private College Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tr Uw Geo L Leech King St Ferdinand IIIportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cushwa William & Anna Jean Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wallin Education Partnersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cornelius L L Heck Schp Fdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Berenice M Eiswirth Scholarship Fdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gilmore Family Scholarship Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- J&P Laurent Scholarship Fund Tuw Xxx-Xx-Xxxxportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gladys M Hess Memorial Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Come to Believe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 82 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like St Mary's University
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Society of Mary Province of the US · exempt
- St Marys University School of Law Fdn · exempt
- St Mary's University Alumni Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for St Mary's University: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds St Mary's University?
- St Mary's University (Texas) receives grants from 129 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,458,912 to it, the largest being Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation ($2,525,010). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does St Mary's University have?
- IRS filings report 129 organizations giving $19,458,912 in grants to St Mary's University, 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of St Mary's University?
- Hector and Gloria Lopez Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,525,010 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like St Mary's University 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 129funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing