Texas · Private foundation
Scharbauer Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $27M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2024
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $8,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 63
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $560M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Scharbauer Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 47 | $27M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $19M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $15M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $16M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 63 | $12M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $13M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $16M | 64% |
| FY2017 | 44 | $8.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midland Memorial Foundation | $16,160,828 | 8 | n/a |
| Permian Basin Behavioral Health Center | $12,000,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Midland College Foundation | $8,614,000 | 8 | 22% |
| Midland Athletic Syndicate Inc | $8,500,000 | 1 | 28% |
| Midland Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc | $8,250,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Midland Isd Education Foundation | $6,100,274 | 8 | 67% |
| Harmony Public Schools | $4,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Senior Life Midland Inc | $3,667,500 | 4 | 26% |
| Safe Place of the Permian Basin | $3,600,000 | 2 | 51% |
| West Texas Food Bank | $2,520,000 | 7 | 7% |
Show all 113 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($21M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Scharbauer Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 109 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: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · The Henry Foundation · Beal Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Fmh Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Scharbauer Foundation Inc
- How much does Scharbauer Foundation Inc give?
- Scharbauer Foundation Inc reported 66 grants totaling $27,346,033 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 63 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Scharbauer Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (31%), Education (21%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Scharbauer Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Midland Memorial Foundation ($16M), Permian Basin Behavioral Health Center ($12M), Midland College Foundation ($8.6M).
- Does Scharbauer Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Scharbauer Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Scharbauer Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Abell-Hanger Foundation, Permian Basin Area Foundation, Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust.
- Where is Scharbauer Foundation Inc based?
- Scharbauer Foundation Inc is based in TX.
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