The Foundation emphasizes grants that create “ripple effects” – generating benefits that spread beyond the primary grantee into the wider community – and “seed money” grants, where Foundation support provides a catalyst for innovative and unique programs or services with strong potential for future sustainability.
A list of current and past grantees:
Abriendo Puertas Initiative (Texas A&M University)
Arte Público Press (University of Houston)
Aurora House Foundation (Hospice)
Boy Scouts (Rio Grande Council)
Brewster School, Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District
Brownsville Independent School District
Brownsville Literacy Center, Inc.
Brownsville Museum of Fine Art
Buckner Children & Family Services
Children’s Museum of Brownsville
Comfort House Hospice
Diaz-Villarreal Elementary School (La Joya ISD)
Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley
Girl Scouts of Greater South Texas
Good Samaritan Community Services
Guadalupe Regional Middle School
Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District
Healthy Communities of Brownsville
Incarnate Word Academy (Brownsville)
Infant & Family Nutrition Agency
La Joya Independent School District
McAllen Independent School District
Mercedes High School (Mercedes ISD)
Mercedes Independent School District
Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic School
Pharr/San Juan/Alamo ISD – Parent Engagement Program
Point Isabel Independent School District
Project Hope (Boys & Girls Clubs)
Regional Health Science Center (Harlingen)
Rio Grande Valley Diabetes/Cameron County
Rio Grande Valley Diabetes/Hidalgo County
Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show
Robert Vela High School (Edinburg ISD)
S.T.A.R.T.
San Benito Consolidated Independent School District
Sharp Elementary School (Brownsville ISD)
St. Luke Catholic School, Diocese of Brownsville
Teach for America – Rio Grande Valley
Texas A&M Foundation and Health Science Center
Texas A&M University CHUD Colonias Program
Texas A&M University Medical School
Texas CASA (Cameron, Willacy & Hidalgo Counties)
Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid, Inc.
Tranquil Solutions Special Care Facility
University of Texas – Pan American
UT Health Science Center – Children’s Learning Institute
Valley Proud Environmental Council
Vannie E. Cook Jr. Cancer Foundation
