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Sam Roosth Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $223k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION | $70,000 |
| EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,400 |
| SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER IN JERU | $30,000 |
| REACH FOR UGANDA | $25,000 |
| ORT AMERICA | $20,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| TEXAS AM HILLEL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT HILLEL FOUND | $15,000 |
| PATH | $15,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER D | $13,500 |
| DALLAS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $11,375 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| URJ GREENE FAMILY CAMP | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $281k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of Sam Roosth Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 63% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- REREGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK3× · 2017–2020 · $155k · revenue +109%
- PPPATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP6× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +61%
- CJCONCRETE JUNGLE INC4× · 2019–2023 · $60k · revenue ×18
Funded once
- JSJOHN SEALY HOSPITALUTMBone grant, 2019 · $50k
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +28%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATIone grant, 2017 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The Jewish Community Center Endowment Fund was created to support the programs and operations of the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…
The mission of the jewish federation of greater oklahoma city is to ensure the continuity of the jewish people, enhance the quality of jewish life and build a strong, secure and unified jewish community in central oklahoma, in israel and…
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
Jcssa focuses on growing its endowment in order to continue supporting the work of golden manor, inc., dba san antonio jewish senior services, which addresses the needs and enriches the quality of life for san antonio jewish older adults…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas and the most unlike its peers is Sholem Educational Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 62 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCRETE JUNGLE INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN MANOR INC DBA SAN ANTONIO JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds TYLER DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Helping Restore Ability ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR UGANDAINC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CAMP FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH WITH DIABETES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: A S Genecov Foundation · Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · Julietta Jarvis Foundation Inc · Bg Byars Foundation · Byers Family Foundation · Riter Family Foundation · Hibbs Family Foundation · James I Perkins Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Sam Roosth 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.
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.
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