Texas · Private foundation
Sam Roosth 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.
- $9.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,622,069
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Sam Roosth Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $9.1M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $392k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $439k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $328k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $182k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $347k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $369k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $409k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $365,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum | $216,530 | 7 | 1% |
| Regional East Texas Food Bank | $155,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Path - People Attempting to Help | $145,300 | 6 | 1% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $90,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Concrete Jungle Inc | $80,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Texas Hillel Foundation | $65,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Golden Manor Inc Dba San Antonio Jewish Senior Services | $61,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Jewish Family & Career Services Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hospice of East Texas | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($10M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sam Roosth 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Sam Roosth Foundation
- How much does Sam Roosth Foundation give?
- Sam Roosth Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $9,134,117 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sam Roosth Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (22%), Philanthropy (20%), Religion (9%).
- Who are Sam Roosth Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ($365k), Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ($217k), Regional East Texas Food Bank ($155k).
- Does Sam Roosth Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sam Roosth 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 Sam Roosth Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include A S Genecov Foundation, Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation, Julietta Jarvis Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sam Roosth Foundation based?
- Sam Roosth Foundation is based in TX.
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