Love Builds Hope Foundation
Brownsville, TX · EIN 84-3869087. Reported 50 grants totalling $1,203,038 to 42 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 21% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 14% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $13,533. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $27,000; the smallest was $5,667 and the largest $206,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plaza Amistad | Edinburg, TX | $256,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mother Cabrini Parish | Pharr, TX | $123,972 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| St Anne Mother of Mary Church | Pharr, TX | $99,091 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Holy Family Church | La Grulla, TX | $73,584 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| St Theresa Church (edcouch) | San Benito, TX | $70,800 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| San Martin De Porras Catholic School | Weslaco, TX | $42,463 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Our Lady Queen of the Universe (san Benito) | San Benito, TX | $28,794 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Our Lady of Guadalupe Church | Brownsville, TX | $28,434 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Ignatius Loyola Church & Missions | Brownsville, TX | $28,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Theresa Church (san Benito) | San Benito, TX | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Joseph School (edinburg) | Edinburg, TX | $25,688 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Our Lady Queen of Angels (la Joya) | La Joya, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Our Lady of Guadalupe (raymondville) | Harlingen, TX | $22,827 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley | San Juan, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Immaculate Conception Cathedral (brownsville) | Brownsville, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Eugene De Mazenod Church (brownsville) | Brownsville, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Joseph Church (brownsville) | Brownsville, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Our Lady of the Holy Rosary (mission) | Mission, TX | $19,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Holy Family (brownsville) | Brownsville, TX | $15,331 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Anthony Catholic Church | Brownsille, TX | $14,602 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Joseph the Worker Church | Mcallen, TX | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Prince of Peace Church (lyford) | Lyford, TX | $13,626 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Immaculate Conception (rio Grande City) | Rio Grande City, TX | $13,441 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Our Lady of Perpetual Help (mcallen) | Mcallen, TX | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sacred Heart Church (escobares) | Roma, TX | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Margaret Mary (pharr) | Pharr, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Monica Catholic Church | Lyford, TX | $11,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Christ the King Church | Brownsville, TX | $10,860 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St John the Baptist | San Juan, TX | $10,214 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Immaculate Conception School (rio Grande City) | Rio Grande City, TX | $10,200 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Holy Spirit Church (progreso) | Progreso, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Our Lady of St John of the Fields (mission) | Mission, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| San Martin De Porres Church (alton) | Alton, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sacred Heart Church | Hidalgo, TX | $9,926 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Mary Church (santa Rosa) | Santa Rosa, TX | $9,460 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Luke Church (brownsville) | Brownsville, TX | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Anthony School (harlingen) | Harlingen, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Our Lady of Guadalupe (la Villa) | Mission, TX | $7,914 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Our Lady of Mercy (mercedes) | Mercedes, TX | $7,468 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Pius X Church (weslaco) | Weslaco, TX | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sacred Heart (elsa) | Elsa, TX | $6,776 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Our Heavenly Father Church (olmito) | Olmito, TX | $5,667 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
7 of 42 (17%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Plaza Amistad
TO SUPPORT THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS OFFERED IN PLAZA AMISTAD. - Mother Cabrini Church (pharr)
HELP PARISHES PAY ESSENTIAL EXPENSES SUCH AS STAFFING, UTILITIES, AND PROPERTY INSURANCE AND CONTINUE THEIR DAILY MINISTRY OPERATIONS. - St Anne Church (pharr)
REPLACEMENT METAL ROOF FOR CHURCH - Holy Family Church (la Grulla)
EMERGENCY REPAIRS IN PARISH OFFICES - San Martin De Porres School (weslaco)
FUNDS DESIGNATED TO HELP CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CONTINUE THEIR SOCIAL AND PASTORAL WORK TO THEIR STUDENTS, FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITIES. - St Theresa Church (edcouch)
TO HELP PARISHES REPAOR THE CHURCH BELL TOWER.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 1 of 42 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 40 | $766,191 | $12,500 |
| 2021 | 7 | $357,245 | $27,500 |
| 2022 | 1 | $50,000 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 2 | $29,602 | $14,801 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $13,533 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Love Builds Hope Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 1910 East University Blvd, Brownsville, TX, 78521.
EIN 84-3869087 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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