· Private foundation
JA Sprague 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pro-Vision Inc | $20,000 |
| Portland Community Squash | $20,000 |
| Boston Rowing Federation | $20,000 |
| Kinkaid School | $13,000 |
| Connect | $10,000 |
| Hurricane Island Foundation | $10,000 |
| Three Trees Foundation | $10,000 |
| Mission Squash | $10,000 |
| St John the Divine Episcopal Church | $10,000 |
| Just City | $7,500 |
| Slingshot Memphis | $5,000 |
| Ecclesia Houston | $5,000 |
| Houston Area Women's Center | $5,000 |
| Tabor Academy | $4,000 |
| Memorial Park Conservancy | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBowdoin College9× · 2017–2025 · $182k · revenue +94%
- TKThe Kinkaid School Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +87%
- PCPortland Community Squash8× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- ACASPEN CHAPELone grant, 2024 · $10k
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +73%
- HHHouston Hospiceone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…
Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Mission: Connect communities with animals, inspiring action to save wildlife. Vision: Be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife. (Continued on Schedule O) Houston Zoo, Inc. (HZI) strives to be a zoo that practices exemplary…
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…
Houston Golf Association exists to make a difference in the Houston community and its youth through golf and charity.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds The Kinkaid School Inc ↗
- Who funds PRO-VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Portland Community Squash ↗
- Who funds SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Just City Inc ↗
- Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Houston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Nonesuch Oar & Paddle Club ↗
- Who funds Boston Rowing Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds THREE TREES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELEN JAMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds THE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROUTS NECK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds I Am Waters Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PURSUIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization JA Sprague Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from JA Sprague Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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