· Private foundation
Sterling Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Centro Familiar Cristiano | $150,000 |
| Jewish Family Service | $90,000 |
| Congregation Anshai Torah | $15,000 |
| Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services | $10,000 |
| Holocaust Museum Houston | $5,000 |
| Fisher House Foundation | $3,000 |
| The Center for Pursuit | $3,000 |
| Trueface | $2,500 |
| Hillel at Texas A & M University | $2,500 |
| Houston Hillel | $2,500 |
| Dr Marnie Rose Foundation inc | $2,500 |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of America | $2,000 |
| Texas Equusearch | $2,000 |
| HOPE Ministries | $1,500 |
| His Mansion Ministries | $1,200 |
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 (FY19–25, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Sterling Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE7× · 2019–2025 · $635k · revenue +65%
- HMHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +33%
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.
Support holocaust museum houston financially in educating people about the holocaust, remembering the 6 million jews and other innocent victims and honoring the survivors' legacy.
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
The mission of the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston is to develop and strengthen Jewish identity, foster Jewish values, and enrich the Jewish community and the greater community.
Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…
Amazing Place empowers families facing the challenges of dementia and Alzheimer's and advances brain health for all. The Organization serves adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild to moderate dementia, caregiving families and…
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, 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,…
Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 25 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Doctor Marnie Rose Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Hillel ↗
- Who funds TEXAS EQUUSEARCH MOUNTED SEARCH AND RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds Open Door Mission ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Theatre Under the Stars Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sterling Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sterling Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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