Texas · Private foundation
Sam and Laura Dawson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $908k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 20
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Sam and Laura Dawson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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 | 18 | $903k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $394k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $1.5M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $346k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $294k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $350k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $265k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc | $312,949 | 7 | 4% |
| Triple Dawson Family Foundation | $287,500 | 4 | 19% |
| San Antonio Zoological Society | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bexar County Performing Arts Center Fdn Tobin Center for the Performing Art | $147,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Haven for Hope of Bexar County | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Texas | $120,000 | 2 | n/a |
| United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| South Texas Youth for Christ | $65,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Onward Campus Ministries | $55,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Arboretum San Antonio | $45,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sam and Laura Dawson 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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Muriel F Siebert Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Impetus Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · The Tobin Endowment · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Sam and Laura Dawson Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Sam and Laura Dawson Family Foundation
- How much does Sam and Laura Dawson Family Foundation give?
- Sam and Laura Dawson Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $907,612 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Sam and Laura Dawson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (51%), Philanthropy (11%), Recreation & Sports (9%).
- Who are Sam and Laura Dawson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc ($313k), Triple Dawson Family Foundation ($288k), San Antonio Zoological Society ($200k).
- Does Sam and Laura Dawson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sam and Laura Dawson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sam and Laura Dawson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Muriel F Siebert Foundation Inc, Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992.
- Where is Sam and Laura Dawson Family Foundation based?
- Sam and Laura Dawson Family Foundation is based in TX.
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