Texas · Private foundation
Sterling Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $296k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 22
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Sterling Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 18 | $296k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $308k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $295k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $288k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $365k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $375k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $396k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service | $635,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services Inc | $140,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Congregation Anshai Torah | $85,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Holocaust Museum Houston | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Center for Pursuit | $21,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $18,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Doctor Marnie Rose Foundation Inc | $17,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Houston Hillel | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Texas Equusearch Mounted Search and Recovery | $14,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Open Door Mission | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service | $635,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services Inc | $140,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Congregation Anshai Torah | $85,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Holocaust Museum Houston | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Center for Pursuit | $21,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $18,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Doctor Marnie Rose Foundation Inc | $17,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Houston Hillel | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Texas Equusearch Mounted Search and Recovery | $14,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Open Door Mission | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hope Ministries Inc | $10,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of America | $9,500 | 5 | 0% |
| His Mansion Ministries Inc | $8,400 | 7 | n/a |
| Theatre Under the Stars Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Center of Dallas | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Aishel House Inc | $7,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Lester and Rosalie Anixter Center | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sterling Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Houston Jewish Community Foundation · The Brodsky Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Sterling Family Foundation
- How much does Sterling Family Foundation give?
- Sterling Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $295,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 22 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Sterling Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Human Services (35%), Religion (5%).
- Who are Sterling Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Jewish Family Service ($635k), Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services Inc ($140k), Congregation Anshai Torah ($85k).
- Does Sterling Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sterling Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sterling Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Sterling Family Foundation based?
- Sterling Family Foundation is based in TX.
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