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A R Tony and Maria J Sanchez Family Foundation at a glance

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A R Tony and Maria J Sanchez Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$15MHealth$7.3MFood & Nutrition$1.7MHuman Services$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.3MReligion$789kPhilanthropy$506kCommunity Improvement$309kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $228k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+6 grants · $4.0M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$73M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$1,500,000
BABSON COLLEGE$750,000
TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$650,000
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON$600,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON$252,000
STRAKE JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY$250,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$200,000
BRIGHTER BITES$200,000
RICE UNIVERSITY'S BAKER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY$150,000
SOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$150,000
SANTA MARIA HOSTEL$125,000
NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES$115,000
INTERFAITH MINISTRIES FOR GREATER HOUSTON$100,000
CYPRESS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES$100,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF HOUSTON$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOUSTON'S HOUSE OF HOPE: $167k → 16%MISSION OF MERCY: $15k → 17%HOUSTON'S HOUSE OF HOPE: $167k → 16%HOUSTON'S HOUSE OF HOPE: $167k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $100k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $100k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $50k → 16%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $80k → 21%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $43k → 21%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $5k → 21%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $5k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $5k → 16%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $5k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $5k → 16%VOLUNTEERS SERVING THE NEED: $2k → 21%VOLUNTEERS SERVING THE NEED: $2k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $2k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $1k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $5k → 16%AVDA: $100k → 16%AVDA: $50k → 16%AVDA (AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE): $5k → 16%AVDA (AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE): $3k → 16%CYPRESS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $100k → 16%CASA JUAN DIEGO: $33k → 16%CYPRESS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $75k → 16%NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $115k → 16%CASA JUAN DIEGO: $30k → 16%CYPRESS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $50k → 16%NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $100k → 16%CASA JUAN DIEGO: $27k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $100k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $50k → 16%MY CONNECT COMMUNITY: $65k → 16%MY CONNECT COMMUNITY: $50k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $10k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $5k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $5k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $5k → 16%ASSOCIATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF MEXICAN AMERICANS: $50k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 64 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
59

Total granted

$32M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+9%

Still filing today

53%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    8× · 2018–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +49%
  • SM
    St Mary's University
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +32%
  • CS
    Christus Spohn Health System Corporation
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • MC
    MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES
    one grant, 2017 · $475k
  • SF
    San Francisco Nativity Academygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +33%
  • SH
    SACRED HEART CHILDREN'S SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $163k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Memorial Hermann Health System

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
2
HealthTexas Provider Network

To deliver the highest value patient experience through quality, safety, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness, enhanced by medical education and research in collaboration with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
3
The Methodist Hospital

To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.

Health
4
Scott & White Hospital-College Station

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
5
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
6
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
7
Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation

To implement solutions that promote good health for the individual, the health system and the community. we collaborate with others as well as create signature, evidence-based ways to improve the communities where people live, work, learn…

Social Science
8
Spring Branch Community Health Center

To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.

Health
9
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
10
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers - Greater North Texas

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
11
Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
12
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center

The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans; the most unlike its peers is The Sorola Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 126 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
50/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $7,025,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $2,430,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONStrake Jesuit College Prep: $1,265,000 · OtherStrake Jesuit College PrepSt Mary's University: $1,055,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT: $824,733 · OtherANGELA HOUSE: $800,000 · Other+75 more: $7,941,918 · Other+75 moreBaylor College of Medicine: $4,279,365 · EducationBaylor College of Medici…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,500,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA…BABSON COLLEGE: $850,000 · EducationBABSON COLLEGEWilliam Marsh Rice University: $350,000 · EducationUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $310,001 · Education+5 more: $364,824 · EducationChristus Spohn Health System Corporation: $1,000,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital: $800,000 · HealthMERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO: $307,425 · HealthSANTA MARIA HOSTEL INC: $225,000 · HealthMagnificat Houses Inc: $100,000 · HealthTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Health+8 more: $124,391 · HealthHoustons House of Hope: $500,000 · Human ServicesCYPRESS COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $225,000 · Human ServicesCASA DE MISERICORDIA: $218,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $215,000 · Human ServicesCASA JUAN DIEGO: $171,070 · Human ServicesAVDA: $157,700 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $151,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesMy Connect Community: $139,600 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $100,000 · Human Services+6 more: $91,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $678,700 · Community ImprovementBrighter Bites Inc: $450,000 · Food & NutritionJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc: $100,000 · InternationalAMAANAH REFUGEE SERVICE: $26,000 · International+1 more: $3,000 · International
Other$21,341,651Education$7,654,190Health$2,656,816Human Services$2,118,370Community Improvement$678,700Food & Nutrition$450,000International$129,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $4,279,365 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's University: $1,055,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetChristus Spohn Health System Corporation: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $850,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $800,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Awty International School: $705,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $678,700 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $530,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHoustons House of Hope: $500,000 over 3y, 74% of budgetBrighter Bites Inc: $450,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSt John's School: $436,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $350,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $310,001 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBethany House of Laredo Inc: $307,587 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetMERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO: $307,425 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetCYPRESS COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $225,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetSANTA MARIA HOSTEL INC: $225,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCASA DE MISERICORDIA: $218,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $215,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSan Francisco Nativity Academy: $200,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $180,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCASA JUAN DIEGO: $171,070 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetAVDA: $157,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $151,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMy Connect Community: $139,600 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMagnificat Houses Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSociety of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ARK ASSESSMENT CENTER AND EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR YOUTH: $65,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetGateway Community Health Center Inc: $59,391 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEXICAN AMERICANS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSTON HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Laredo Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAMAANAH REFUGEE SERVICE: $26,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTexas Heart Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGE Fellowship: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGood Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S FUND FOR HEALTH EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHISPANIC BAR ASSOCIATION INC: $14,824 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds St Mary's University ↗
  • Who funds Christus Spohn Health System Corporation ↗
  • Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds The Awty International School ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Houstons House of Hope ↗
  • Who funds Brighter Bites Inc ↗
  • Who funds St John's School ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
  • Who funds Bethany House of Laredo Inc ↗
  • Who funds MERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO ↗
  • Who funds CYPRESS COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SANTA MARIA HOSTEL INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA DE MISERICORDIA ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds San Francisco Nativity Academy ↗
  • Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds CASA JUAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds AVDA ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Houston Commu…The John G and Marie …Strake FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Marek Family Foundati…Charity Guild of Cath…Shell USA Company Fou…Scanlan FoundationHarry S & Isabel C Ca…Laredo Area Community…The Brown Foundation …The Houston Food Bank
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX42.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Scanlan Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Laredo Area Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Houston Food Bank

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A R Tony and Maria J Sanchez Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A R Tony and Maria J Sanchez Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to A R Tony and Maria J Sanchez Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 126 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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