Texas · Private foundation
Saramco 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.
- $500k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Saramco Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 | 12 | $500k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $460k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $430k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $420k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $420k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $380k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small Steps Nurturing Center | $725,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Yellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools | $535,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Harbor Christian Academy | $260,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Onegoal | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chinquapin Preparatory School | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Nehemiah Center Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 2% |
| KIPP Texas Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Search Homeless Services | $55,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Small Steps Nurturing Center Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 33% |
| Project One Day | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($600k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Saramco Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Children's Fund Inc · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Saramco Foundation
- How much does Saramco Foundation give?
- Saramco Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $500,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Saramco Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Religion (12%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are Saramco Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Small Steps Nurturing Center ($725k), Yellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools ($535k), Harbor Christian Academy ($260k).
- Does Saramco Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Saramco 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 Saramco Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Children's Fund Inc, Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Saramco Foundation based?
- Saramco Foundation is based in TX.
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