Texas · Private foundation
The Josephine Hughes Sterling 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.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $782,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Josephine Hughes Sterling Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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 | 40 | $2.7M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $2.6M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $2.2M | 59% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $1.4M | 63% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $925k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $1.5M | 9% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $1.8M | 21% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $1.7M | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Park Conservancy Inc | $2,282,500 | 3 | 5% |
| Children's Medical Center Foundation | $2,050,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Ut Southwestern Health Systems | $1,546,500 | 7 | 16% |
| The University of Texas Foundation Inc | $900,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Texas Health Resources Foundation | $805,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Eastwood Ranch Foundation | $775,000 | 9 | 15% |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $570,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Insync Exotic Inc | $536,000 | 5 | 22% |
| University of North Texas Foundation Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Children's Health System of Texas | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Josephine Hughes Sterling Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Rosewood Foundation · Coserv Charitable Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
Compare The Josephine Hughes Sterling Foundation with peer funders
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About The Josephine Hughes Sterling Foundation
- How much does The Josephine Hughes Sterling Foundation give?
- The Josephine Hughes Sterling Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $2,700,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Josephine Hughes Sterling Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (49%), Education (21%), Recreation & Sports (14%).
- Who are The Josephine Hughes Sterling Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ($2.3M), Children's Medical Center Foundation ($2.0M), Ut Southwestern Health Systems ($1.5M).
- Does The Josephine Hughes Sterling Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Josephine Hughes Sterling Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Josephine Hughes Sterling Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, Texas Instruments Foundation.
- Where is The Josephine Hughes Sterling Foundation based?
- The Josephine Hughes Sterling Foundation is based in TX.
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