Texas · Private foundation
Saenz 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.
- $243k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $102,191
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 15
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Saenz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 13 | $243k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $184k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $152k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $116k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $76k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $52k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $36k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell University | $317,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Dallas Theater Center | $95,750 | 6 | 1% |
| The Lamplighter School | $37,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Children's Medical Center Foundation | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Star Sponsorship Program Inc | $16,300 | 6 | 1% |
| Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum | $11,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Hockaday School | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Nasher Sculpture Center | $6,675 | 3 | 0% |
| Giving Tree | $5,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Perot Museum of Nature & Science | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell University | $317,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Dallas Theater Center | $95,750 | 6 | 1% |
| The Lamplighter School | $37,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Children's Medical Center Foundation | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Star Sponsorship Program Inc | $16,300 | 6 | 1% |
| Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum | $11,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Hockaday School | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Nasher Sculpture Center | $6,675 | 3 | 0% |
| Giving Tree | $5,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Perot Museum of Nature & Science | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| North Texas Food Bank | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boy Scouts of America Connecticut Rivers Council Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United to Learn | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| St Rita Catholic School | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Gateway Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Amigos of Costa Rica Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Children With Hair Loss Inc | $42 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($320k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Saenz Family 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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Saenz Family Foundation
- How much does Saenz Family Foundation give?
- Saenz Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $243,191 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Saenz Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Philanthropy (20%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Saenz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Cornell University ($317k), Dallas Theater Center ($96k), The Lamplighter School ($38k).
- Does Saenz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Saenz Family 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 Saenz Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Charities Aid Foundation America, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Saenz Family Foundation based?
- Saenz Family Foundation is based in TX.
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