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Judith and Henry Sauer Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$76k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of JUDITH AND HENRY SAUER CHARITABLE 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 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $750
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$440k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$50,000
ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$25,000
THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF HOUSTON$500
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$250
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 (FY21–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $250 → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $1k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$248k · 22 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
49

Total granted

$248k
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+27%

Still filing today

73%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • UF
    Undies for Everyone
    2× · 2020–2023 · $22k · revenue +270%
  • TL
    The Lake and Park School
    3× · 2019–2022 · $12k · revenue +24%
  • HG
    Houston Grand Opera Association Inc
    2× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -2%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicinegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +32%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

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
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
2
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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3
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
4
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…

Arts & Culture
5
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
6
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
7
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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8
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
9
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
10
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter

American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.

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11
The Endowment for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston

None

Arts & Culture
12
Houston Symphony Endowment

To support the operations of the Houston Symphony Society.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Washington Music. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Youth CampsCommunity Arts CentersAddiction Recovery ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%4%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr10%21%35–55yr13%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%25%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr10%16%35–55yr13%28%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 25% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,752

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

46 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. 46 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
35/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUNG LIFE OF SAN ANTONIO — $32,500 · OtherYOUNG LIFE OF SAN ANTONIOST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $25,000 · OtherST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $15,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SALVATION ARMY — $10,000 · OtherTHE ROSE — $7,750 · OtherTHETA CHARITY EVENTS INC — $7,050 · Other+39 more — $43,106 · Other+39 moreEndless River Ministries — $75,000 · ReligionEndless River Minis…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC — $25,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SC…Baylor College of Medicine — $25,000 · EducationBaylor College of…The Lake and Park School — $11,500 · EducationThe Lake and Park…SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationSEATTLE PUBLIC LI…+3 more — $1,650 · EducationThe Histiocure Foundation — $37,500 · HealthThe Histioc…OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION — $6,000 · HealthOSTEOGENESI…+1 more — $1,250 · HealthUndies for Everyone — $22,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,750 · PhilanthropyThe Periwinkle Foundation — $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $500 · PhilanthropyHouston Grand Opera Association Inc — $10,250 · Arts & CultureHOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT — $3,300 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF WASHINGTON MUSIC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureGEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM — $1,400 · Arts & CultureHouston Public Media Foundation — $1,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural Science — $950 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION — $850 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $1,360 · Arts & CultureDRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN — $10,000 · Community ImprovementThe Junior League of Houston Inc — $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$190,906Religion$75,000Education$68,150Health$44,750Philanthropy$25,250Arts & Culture$20,610Community Improvement$12,000

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 budgetEndless River Ministries — $75,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetThe Histiocure Foundation — $37,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUndies for Everyone — $22,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Lake and Park School — $11,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc — $10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE ROSE — $7,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHETA CHARITY EVENTS INC — $7,050 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREMIND — $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT — $3,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Junior League of Houston Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF WASHINGTON MUSIC — $1,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Santa Fe Foundation Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM — $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Public Media Foundation — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Periwinkle Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Community Service Center Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAMAR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp For All Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science — $950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Society — $950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION — $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTheatre Under the Stars Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Area Parkinson Society — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $460 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE ACTION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION — $50 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.

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…Shell USA Company Fou…Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Brown Foundation …Vivian L Smith Founda…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…The Powell FoundationThe Elkins FoundationMarek Family Foundati…Strake FoundationBriar Hollow Foundati…Greentree Fund
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX39.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Powell Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Strake Foundation · Briar Hollow Foundation · Greentree Fund

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 Judith and Henry Sauer Charitable 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%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 74 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.

    Source object · view filing

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