Arizona · Private foundation
Marguerite Sours 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.
- $115k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Marguerite Sours Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $115k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $105k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $92k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $152k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $141k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $128k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $126k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $113k | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sacred Heart School | $56,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Central Catholic High School | $45,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Humane Society of Aransas County | $42,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Music in the Mountains | $42,000 | 9 | 1% |
| St Mary's University | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Guide Dogs of Texas Inc | $20,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Durango Arts Center Inc | $16,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Polar Bears International | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Assumption Abbey Inc | $13,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Camp Aranzazu Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 68 recipients with no EIN on record ($690k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marguerite Sours Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Ed Rachal Foundation · Margaret Sue Rust Foundation · Barrow Foundation · Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Steps Foundation fka The Powers Private Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Marguerite Sours Foundation
- How much does Marguerite Sours Foundation give?
- Marguerite Sours Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $115,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Marguerite Sours Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Animals (12%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Marguerite Sours Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sacred Heart School ($56k), Central Catholic High School ($45k), Humane Society of Aransas County ($43k).
- Does Marguerite Sours Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Marguerite Sours Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Marguerite Sours Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ed Rachal Foundation, Margaret Sue Rust Foundation, Barrow Foundation.
- Where is Marguerite Sours Foundation based?
- Marguerite Sours Foundation is based in AZ.
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