· Private foundation
Searing Brown 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AFRICAN MISSION HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE HAITI RELIEF | $8,500 |
| FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL | $4,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF MARBLE FALLS | $4,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $2,500 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| JOSHUA FUND | $2,000 |
| SOUTH TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOME | $2,000 |
| OCEANA | $2,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $2,000 |
| 21 WILBERFORCEORG | $1,500 |
| SODZO INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $1,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL GALVESTON | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +126% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 17 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2017–2022 · $40k · revenue +134%
Mercy Ships International5× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +126%- MAMemorial Assistance Ministries2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- JSJDRF SOUTHERN TEXAS CHAPTERone grant, 2020 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $6k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
Houston health foundation (hhf) has the mission of creating private/public partnerships for sustainable health and wellness initiatives and programs in our communities.
To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.
To implement solutions that promote good health for the individual, the health system and the community. we collaborate with others as well as create signature, evidence-based ways to improve the communities where people live, work, learn…
To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
To deliver the highest value patient experience through quality, safety, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness, enhanced by medical education and research in collaboration with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
United way for greater austin brings our community together to break economic barriers and build opportunity for all.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
To champion a strong two-generation system that teaches children and parents, trains early childhood professionals and assists families.
Tarrant Area Food Bank's (TAFB) mission is empowering our community to alleviate hunger and improve health. We value and embrace a culture of fairness and inclusion as fundamental to our vision of empowering communities where no one has to…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 79 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.
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Baker Hughes Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Searing Brown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Searing Brown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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