Texas · Private foundation
Sarma Charitable 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.
- $298k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 70%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 23
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 70% of the organizations Sarma Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% 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 | 26 | $298k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $246k | 70% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $355k | 74% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $125k | 94% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $200k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habitat for Humanity of San Antonio Inc | $243,000 | 3 | 1% |
| San Antonio Food Bank | $158,987 | 5 | 0% |
| Spurs Give | $85,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Valero Energy Foundation | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Guadalupe Regional Medical Foundation | $57,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Ssfcu Charitable Foundation Inc | $29,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Feeding South Florida Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| South Texas Food Bank | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| South Texas Blood & Tissue Center | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Arbor Circle Corporation | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($436k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sarma Charitable 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 · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return · The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Nustar Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sarma Charitable Foundation
- How much does Sarma Charitable Foundation give?
- Sarma Charitable Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $297,679 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Sarma Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (26%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%).
- Who are Sarma Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Habitat for Humanity of San Antonio Inc ($243k), San Antonio Food Bank ($159k), Spurs Give ($85k).
- Does Sarma Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sarma Charitable 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 Sarma Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100, Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation.
- Where is Sarma Charitable Foundation based?
- Sarma Charitable Foundation is based in TX.
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