· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $85,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION | $38,000 |
| GUADALUPE REGIONAL MED FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $20,000 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SAN ANTONIO | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $10,000 |
| SPURS GIVE | $10,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO BOWL ASSN | $7,500 |
| ARBOR CIRCLE | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,150 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ST MARY'S UNIVERISTY | $5,000 |
| SSFCU CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| OAK HILLS FOUNDATION | $2,746 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Sarma Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 87%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC3× · 2021–2024 · $243k · revenue +49%
- SGSPURS GIVE4× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +401%
- VEVALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF Lone grant, 2023 · $75k
- FSFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +17%
- STSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -35%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.
To provide a safe, caring, and temporary home away from home for the families of children receiving essential medical services in san antonio, texas.
The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.
Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).
The mission of the sa cancer council is to provide financial resources for patient assistance services and cancer research to support the mays cancer center, home to ut health san antonio md anderson.
Provide funding for charitable, literary, cultural, and educational endeavors.
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SPURS GIVE ↗
- Who funds VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE REGIONAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SSFCU CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds St Mary's University ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO BOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Report ↗
- Who funds THE PROSTHETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sarma Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sarma Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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