Texas · Private foundation
Summerfield G Roberts Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $598k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2026
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 2
- Total assets, FY2026
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 33% of the organizations Summerfield G Roberts Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 19 | $598k | 53% |
| FY2025 | 15 | $662k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $455k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $545k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $523k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $440k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $421k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $376k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Christian University | $405,203 | 5 | 0% |
| Southern Methodist University | $365,204 | 5 | 0% |
| Mary Crowley Medical Research Center | $227,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Texas State Historical Association | $180,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Children's Medical Center Foundation | $157,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Ochsner Clinic Foundation | $99,483 | 2 | 0% |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $95,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Unt Health Science Center | $85,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Fort Chadbourne Foundation | $71,515 | 4 | 5% |
| McWhiney History Education Group | $62,500 | 2 | 49% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Summerfield G Roberts Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Summerfield G Roberts Foundation
- How much does Summerfield G Roberts Foundation give?
- Summerfield G Roberts Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $597,541 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2025.
- What does Summerfield G Roberts Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (42%), Health (32%), Arts & Culture (22%).
- Who are Summerfield G Roberts Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Texas Christian University ($405k), Southern Methodist University ($365k), Mary Crowley Medical Research Center ($228k).
- Does Summerfield G Roberts Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Summerfield G Roberts Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Summerfield G Roberts Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Summerlee Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Moody Foundation.
- Where is Summerfield G Roberts Foundation based?
- Summerfield G Roberts Foundation is based in TX.
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