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A R Tony and Maria J Sanchez Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of A R TONY AND MARIA J SANCHEZ FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $129k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$73M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$800,000
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON$600,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON$302,000
ANGELA HOUSE$300,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$200,000
BRIGHTER BITES$150,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF HOUSTON$145,000
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$130,000
SOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$130,000
AWTY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL$125,000
SAN JOS CLINIC$125,000
NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES$100,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS$100,000
ST JOHN'S SCHOOL$100,000
THE WOMEN'S HOME$100,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.6M) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOUSTON'S HOUSE OF HOPE: $167k → 16%HOUSTON'S HOUSE OF HOPE: $167k → 16%MISSION OF MERCY: $15k → 17%HOUSTON'S HOUSE OF HOPE: $167k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $100k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $100k → 16%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $80k → 21%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $43k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $5k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $5k → 16%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $5k → 21%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $5k → 21%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $5k → 21%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 (AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE): $5k → 16%AVDA (AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE): $3k → 16%CYPRESS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $75k → 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%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

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$27M · 54 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

54 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
55

Total granted

$27M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+19%

Still filing today

50%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
    7× · 2018–2024 · $4.1M · 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

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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 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
6
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
7
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
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 Holdings

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

Health
11
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr17%6%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr8%28%35–55yr10%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr17%9%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr8%25%35–55yr10%51%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
18%
4,963/28,050

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 124 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
50/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY — $6,375,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON — $1,830,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONSt Mary's University — $1,055,000 · OtherSt Mary's UniversityStrake Jesuit College Prep — $1,015,000 · OtherStrake Jesuit College PrepCRISTO REY JESUIT — $824,733 · OtherANGELA HOUSE — $800,000 · OtherThe Awty International School — $705,000 · Other+73 more — $6,324,693 · Other+73 moreBaylor College of Medicine — $4,079,365 · EducationBaylor College of Me…William Marsh Rice University — $350,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice U…University of the Incarnate Word — $310,001 · EducationUniversity of the In…San Francisco Nativity Academy — $200,000 · Education+5 more — $264,824 · EducationChristus Spohn Health System Corporation — $1,000,000 · HealthChristus …Texas Children's Hospital — $800,000 · HealthTexas Chi…MERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO — $266,925 · HealthMERCY MIN…THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthSANTA MARIA HOSTEL INC — $100,000 · Health+9 more — $174,391 · Health+9 moreHoustons House of Hope — $500,000 · Human ServicesCASA DE MISERICORDIA — $218,000 · Human ServicesMy Connect Community — $139,600 · Human ServicesCASA JUAN DIEGO — $138,070 · Human ServicesCYPRESS COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES — $125,000 · Human ServicesAVDA — $107,700 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON — $101,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S HOME — $100,000 · Human Services+6 more — $91,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $528,700 · Community ImprovementBrighter Bites Inc — $250,000 · Food & NutritionJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc — $100,000 · InternationalAMAANAH REFUGEE SERVICE — $26,000 · International+1 more — $3,000 · International
Other$18,929,426Education$5,204,190Health$2,441,316Human Services$1,720,370Community Improvement$528,700Food & Nutrition$250,000International$129,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $4,079,365 over 7y, 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 budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $800,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Awty International School — $705,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $530,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $528,700 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHoustons House of Hope — $500,000 over 3y, 74% 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 — $293,362 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetMERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO — $266,925 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetBrighter Bites Inc — $250,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCASA DE MISERICORDIA — $218,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetSan Francisco Nativity Academy — $200,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMy Connect Community — $139,600 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetCASA JUAN DIEGO — $138,070 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCYPRESS COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES — $125,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetAVDA — $107,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON — $101,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 budgetBABSON COLLEGE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA MARIA HOSTEL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston — $80,000 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 budgetMagnificat Houses Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEXICAN AMERICANS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 budgetTexas Heart Institute — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGE Fellowship — $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% 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 budgetINCARNATE WORD HIGH SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds St Mary's University ↗
  • Who funds Christus Spohn Health System Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds The Awty International School ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Houstons House of Hope ↗
  • 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 Brighter Bites Inc ↗
  • Who funds CASA DE MISERICORDIA ↗
  • Who funds San Francisco Nativity Academy ↗
  • Who funds My Connect Community ↗
  • Who funds CASA JUAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds CYPRESS COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds AVDA ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization A R Tony and Maria J Sanchez Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to A R Tony and Maria J Sanchez Family Foundation?

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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