Texas · Private foundation
Sla Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $63k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Sla Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Austin Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $390
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $63,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Sla Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $455 | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $500 | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $600 | 100% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $4k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $3k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew S Roddick Foundation Inc | $950 | 1 | 0% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cure Duchenne | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Leadership Austin | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Austin Theatre Alliance | $240 | 2 | 0% |
| I Live Here I Give Here | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Caritas of Austin | $65 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.
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: Topfer Family Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Sla Foundation
- How much does Sla Foundation give?
- Sla Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $63,455 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Sla Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (97%), Education (1%), Health (1%).
- Who are Sla Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Andrew S Roddick Foundation Inc ($950), March of Dimes Inc ($500), Cure Duchenne ($500).
- Does Sla Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sla Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sla Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Topfer Family Foundation, Better Business Bureau, Austin Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sla Foundation based?
- Sla Foundation is based in TX.
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