· Private foundation
Samuels Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Samuels Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $3,167,944 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Enriching life through discovery, education, and conservation of the natural environment.
Breakthrough Houston works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students to achieve post-secondary success and empowers aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.
To increase the number of Houston students learning in great schools.
Trees For Houston grows, plants and maintains trees throughout the greater Houston area.
The HISD Foundation supports Houston Independent School District's schools and programs.
To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.
YES Prep is a public charter school system for grades K-12 in Houston's underserved communities.
American Leadership Forum joins and strengthens diverse leaders to better serve the public good.
Houston MediaSource provides public access cable television programming for the City of Houston.
The Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) serves as a valuable resources for the Houston community, offering extensive collections, exciting interactive exhibits, immersive environments, engaging films, compelling traveling exhibitions,…
To strengthen democracy and improve the lives of all Houstonians one story at a time.
Supports education and scientific programs for physicians, patients, and the community.
How this is measured
1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Jewish Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein · The Powell Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · American Endowment Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Tapeats Fund · Jewish Federation of Greater Houston · John P McGovern Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Samuels Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samuels Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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