· Private foundation
Sgl 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 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 $10k27 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MHHS FOUNDATION | $57,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $49,277 |
| TEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $25,500 |
| BACTERIA BEYOND BORDERS INC | $25,000 |
| LDN RESEARCH TRUST | $16,000 |
| NCPA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MONTGOMERY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $12,200 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK | $11,500 |
| NATIONAL COMMUNITY PHARMACIST ASSOCIATION | $10,500 |
| A JOYFUL LIFE FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| ALLIANCE PHARMACY CO | $10,000 |
| FAMILY LEGACY | $5,610 |
| TRUSSVILLE CITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| KIDS MEALS INC | $4,500 |
| DREAM ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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, $321k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Sgl Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 25 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- SRSKY RANCHES INC6× · 2018–2024 · $725k · revenue +44%
- TWThe Woodlands Christian Academy5× · 2018–2025 · $596k · revenue +93%
- LFLove Fosters Hope3× · 2018–2025 · $104k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $125k
- DCDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +27%
- MHMemorial Hermann Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +158%
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.
Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.
A local united christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect and a new beginning for the homeless, offering a holistic care program that leads to true lasting healing.
Empowers older and disabled adults to live independentlly in thier own homes by providing nutritious home-delivered meals, safety checks, socialization, and community connection, which result in an enhanced quality of life and purpose as…
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
To foster the independence and dignity of homebound seniors in montgomery county by providing them with nutritious meals, transportation, and caring connections.
To provide lodging and support services to families with critically ill or injured children.
MAM partners with hardworking Houstonians to build stable lives and hope-filled futures. Through education, training, and community connection, we enhance economic mobility and holistic health across the region.
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Lazarus Inc and the most unlike its peers is One Day Closer Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 107 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 SKY RANCHES INC ↗
- Who funds The Woodlands Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Love Fosters Hope ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds 7 More Inc ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds TEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds Harding University Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PODIATRIC MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PODIATRIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT OUR SOLDIERS ↗
- Who funds HOPE FAMILY CARE MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Junior League of the Woodlands Inc · Wcn Cares · The Woodforest Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Baker Hughes Foundation · Marta and Stephen Pate Family Foundation · Apricity Foundation · Montgomery County Community Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Sgl Foundation 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.
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.