· Private foundation
Sasser Family Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON | $54,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| BALL HIGH PATHWAYS SCIENCE ED | $10,000 |
| SAMMY'S HOUSE | $7,500 |
| GIVE DIRECTLY | $6,000 |
| SHALOM AUSTIN | $5,500 |
| UNBOUND HOUSTON | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERBIG SISTER | $3,500 |
| GALVESTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| FIDF | $3,333 |
| SERJOBS | $2,500 |
| CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY | $2,500 |
| UTMB SCHOOL OF NURSING | $2,500 |
| GALVESTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| UNDUE MEDICAL DEBT (AKA RIP MEDICAL DEBT) | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BPBETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON5× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue +55% · 38% of their budget
- SASHALOM AUSTIN5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +94%
- SVST VINCENTS HOUSE6× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +225%
Funded once
- BGBuild Galvestongraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +91%
- MMDRTCOASTone grant, 2022 · $10k
- VGVision Galvestonone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote and advocate for business
The Councils mission is to enhance the quality of life of low-income families in Galveston, Fort Bend, Wharton, and Brazoria Counties by promoting self-sufficiency pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. It also operates…
To advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…
The Center is dedicated to enhancing the potential for growth of individuals and families. The Center strives to help people pursue healthy, independent,and fulfilling lives through the provision of counseling, education and related social…
GHIRPs mission is to build a resilient diverse community by providing comprehensive representation and holistic legal services to immigrants in need.
Our mission is to provide quality mental health services to children and adults in low income families who are impacted by severe and persistent mental illness, emotional disturbances, child abuse and neglect, high-risk behaviors and…
The Mission of the Galveston Clubhouse is the support of chronically mentally ill individuals in Galveston County by providing or facilitating the following: 1) Psychological and vocational rehabilitation services; 2) Pre-vocational…
Gallup community health's mission is to provide excellent and accessible medical care to our community, regardless of ability to pay.
Texas one voice is a non-profit, non-partisan policy collaborative comprised of 100+ non-profit and public agencies who minister to the health and human needs of houstonians and who come together to advocate for policies & programs that…
It is the mission of gulf coast housing partnership (gchp) to revitalize the gulf coast through transformative development. working in partnership with public, nonprofit, and private entities, gchp will create vibrant, high-quality…
Together with our donors, we transform our region through bold and proactive philanthropy.
To provide dedicated volunteers to advocate in court for the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shalom Austin and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 85 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON ↗
- Who funds SAMMYS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Build Galveston ↗
- Who funds SHALOM AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENTS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Smart Family Literacy Inc ↗
- Who funds COMP-U-DOPT INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA of Williamson County Texas ↗
- Who funds Vision Galveston ↗
- Who funds SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Christina Sullivan Foundation ↗
- Who funds Galveston College Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PRACTICE ↗
- Who funds African Childrens Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds MOODY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston · Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Church · The Mary Moody Northen Endowment · United Way of Galveston Inc White · The Moody Foundation · Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust · The Rider Family Fund · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Yagas Childrens Fund Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Sasser Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Sasser Family Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Sasser Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.