· Private foundation
Stai Family 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 $10k9 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| GILLESPIE COUNTY YOUTH LIVESTOCK | $5,000 |
| COAST GUARD FOUNDATION | $500 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $485 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $250 |
| MARINE CORP FOUNDATION | $200 |
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +39% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $685 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CAPITOL AREA COUNCIL - TOM WOOTEN TRUST6× · 2017–2022 · $36k · revenue ×24
- SDSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +78%
The Houston Food Bank9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $6k
- TPTURNING POINTone grant, 2024 · $5k
- HGHouston Grand Opera Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +28%
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.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
To provide broader recognition of the state's top achievers in medicine, engineering and science, and to build a stronger identity for texas as an important destination and center of achievement in these fields.
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,…
Promote and implement organ donation.
Trade association for real estate agents and brokers. provide education and training for members. promote services provided by members to the public.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 32 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.
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CAPITOL AREA COUNCIL - TOM WOOTEN TRUST ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF KERRVILLE ↗
- Who funds CO2 COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stai Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stai Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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