· Private foundation
Summerfield G Roberts Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $212k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $367k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| ALTON OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION | $66,666 |
| CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS | $50,000 |
| WIPE OUT KID'S CANCER INC | $34,000 |
| TEXAS CENTER FOR SCHREINER UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| HUMANITIES TEXAS | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY FD | $22,875 |
| FRONTIERS OF FLIGHT MUSEUM INC | $20,000 |
| THE SHUMLA SCHOOL INC | $20,000 |
| THE ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PRESS | $15,000 |
| DALLAS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR TEXAS HISTORY | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2026, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k 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
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2026 · $405k · revenue +40%
Southern Methodist University5× · 2018–2026 · $365k · revenue +39%- MCMARY CROWLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $228k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TTTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2025 · $100k
- TTTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $95k · revenue -16%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL AT GALVESTONone grant, 2022 · $57k
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.
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…
To collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history of the North Texas Area to inspire an interest in the past for the education and enrichment of people of all ages.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
The texas a&m foundation builds a brighter future for texas a&m university, one relationship at a time, by uniting generosity and vision to raise support and manage endowed gifts.
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,…
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.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
To collect and preserve significant historical materials that relate to the early history and culture of Texas and to promote the study of the history of Texas through exhibits, publications, and educational programs.
To support the university of texas system
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wipe Out Kids' Cancer Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 65 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 TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds MARY CROWLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Texas State Historical Association ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT CHADBOURNE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds McWhiney History Education Group ↗
- Who funds FRONTIERS OF FLIGHT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds The Shumla School Inc ↗
- Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Baylor Health Care System ↗
- Who funds WIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Schreiner University ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Summerlee Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Moody Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · The Legett Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Texas Historical Foundation · The Joe M & Doris R Dealey Family Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Humanities Texas
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 Summerfield G Roberts 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.
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