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Community Foundation of Brazoria County

Angleton, TX · EIN 76-0427068. Reported 76 grants totalling $1,097,445 to 75 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

75organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$1,097,445granted, 2020-2023
8%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Community Foundation of Brazoria County, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 75 distinct organizations, with 8% 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 big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $15,910; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $85,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
28 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
40 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Our Lady Queen of PeaceRichwood, TX$85,500112023
University Baptist ChurchHouston, TX$69,725222023
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic School IncorporatedRichwood, TX$58,100112020
Our Lady of GuadalupeHouston, TX$40,000112023
Salvation ArmyFreeport, TX$31,100112023
Brazosport College FoundationLake Jackson, TX$29,500112023
Refuge for WomenLewisville, TX$28,075112020
Old Fort Velasco Historical AssociationClute, TX$26,237112020
Harvest for the Hungry IncFreeport, TX$23,450112020
Brazosport College FoundationLake Jackson, TX$23,000112020
BachAngleton, TX$22,857112023
Brazoria County Dream Center IncClute, TX$22,000112020
Susan G Komen Breast Cancer FDallas, TX$21,973112023
Pgf Grant FundAngleton, TX$21,080112023
Mountain on Masters RdManvel, TX$20,000112023
University of Houston DowntoHouston, TX$20,000112023
Brazosport Rotary ClubLake Jackson, TX$18,500112023
Brazosport CaresFreeport, TX$17,000112020
Brazosport Cares IncFreeport, TX$15,910112023
Brazoria Cnty Dream CtrClute, TX$15,338112023
Forgotten AngelsPearland, TX$15,050112023
Mosaic in ActionPearland, TX$15,000112023
Texas A&m FoundationCollege Sta, TX$15,000112020
Actions Inc of Brazoria CAngleton, TX$14,575112023
Salvation Army National CorpAlexandria, VA$13,053112020
Actions Incorporated of Brazoria CountyAnglton, TX$12,000112020
Baylor UniversityWaco, TX$11,000112023
True to Life MinistriesLake Jackson, TX$11,000112023
Pearland Neighborhood CntrPearland, TX$10,250112023
Adult Reading Center IncPearland, TX$10,000112020
Baps Charities IncWindsor, NJ$10,000112020
Basset Buddies Rescue of TexasFulshear, TX$10,000112020
Baylor UniversityWaco, TX$10,000112020
Brazosport Fine Arts CouncilClute, TX$10,000112020
Cal Farleys Boys RanchAmarillo, TX$10,000112023
Forever Parks Foundation of PearlandPearland, TX$10,000112020
Hope Through Housing FoundatiHumble, TX$10,000112023
Liberty Counsel IncOrlando, FL$10,000112023
New Hope Opportunities IncRoseville, CA$10,000112020
Rainbow of Hope TexasRosharon, TX$10,000112023
Special Olympics Texas IncSan Antonio, TX$10,000112020
Social Motion IncHouston, TX$10,000112020
Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeHanover, NH$10,000112020
Texas Baptist MenDallas, TX$10,000112023
The RoseHouston, TX$10,000112023
Theatre Under the StarsHouston, TX$10,000112023
Wesley First United MethodistClute, TX$10,000112020
Live Oak ClinicLake Jackson, TX$9,075112023
Texas Baptist Men IncDallas, TX$8,769112020
University of HoustonHouston, TX$8,500112020
Brazosport Home DeliveredLake Jackson, TX$8,470112023
National Federation of the Blind of Texas IncAlvin, TX$8,000112020
Society of Saint Vincent DeHouston, TX$8,000112020
The RoseHouston, TX$8,000112020
Gathering Place InterfaithAngleton, TX$7,630112023
Live Oak Clinic of BrazosportLake Jackson, TX$7,500112020
SPCA of Brazoria CountyLake Jackson, TX$7,498112023
Society of Saint Vincent DeHouston, TX$7,010112023
Brazosport Home Delivered MeaLake Jackson, TX$7,000112020
First Baptist ChurchLake Jackson, TX$7,000112020
Susan G Komen Breast Cancer FoundationDallas, TX$6,872112020
Food BasketClute, TX$6,655112023
Junior Achievement of Brazoria County IncLake Jackson, TX$6,322112020
Brazoria County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsLake Jackson, TX$6,115112020
Brazoria Cnty Womens CenterAngleton, TX$6,050112023
Gc Grandparents As ParentsAngleton, TX$6,050112023
Gulf Coast Southern Texas AniAngleton, TX$6,050112023
St Thomas CenterAngleton, TX$6,050112023
Whites Cottage CenterAngleton, TX$6,050112023
Brazoria Cnty Gathering PlaceAngleton, TX$5,800112023
Humanity First USAChantilly, VA$5,500112023
Interfaith Food Bank IncClute, TX$5,500112020
Gulf Coast CASAAngleton, TX$5,400112023
Citizens for Animal Protection IncHouston, TX$5,206112020
Gulf Coast & Southern Texas Animal Rescue ServiceAngleton, TX$5,100112020

1 of 75 (1%) received money in more than one year over the 2 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 75 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
5 orgs
Human Services
4 orgs
Animal Welfare
4 orgs
Food & Nutrition
2 orgs
Religion
2 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
2 orgs
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202036$460,274$10,000
202340$637,171$10,000

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

95% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Texas
$1.0M
Virginia
$19K
New Jersey
$10K
Florida
$10K
California
$10K
New Hampshire
$10K

Down to the city

Houston, TX
$196K
Richwood, TX
$144K
Lake Jackson, TX
$141K
Angleton, TX
$113K
Clute, TX
$96K
Freeport, TX
$87K

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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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsGreater Houston Community Foundation9 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund7 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
  4. 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Community Foundation of Brazoria County's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 40 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 2392, Angleton, TX, 77516.

EIN 76-0427068 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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