Texas · Private foundation
The Sarofim Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $8.0M
- Granted FY2023
- 5
- Grants FY2023
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $7,821,495
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 1
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations The Sarofim Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.9M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 5 | $8.0M | 60% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $1.9M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $1.8M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $1.9M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $1.8M | 26% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $1.7M | 54% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Menil Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $575,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Houston Grand Opera Association Inc | $450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $400,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Contemporary Arts Museum Houston | $400,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Episcopal High School | $265,000 | 5 | n/a |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $257,186 | 3 | 0% |
| Star of Hope Mission | $197,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St George's School | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Sarofim Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 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 Sarofim Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Kinder Foundation · The Alkek and Williams Foundation · Alvin & Lucy Owsley Foundation · The Weingarten Schnitzer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Sarofim Foundation
- How much does The Sarofim Foundation give?
- The Sarofim Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $7,973,681 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Sarofim Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (42%), Arts & Culture (36%), Health (8%).
- Who are The Sarofim Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Menil Foundation Inc ($1.0M), Texas Children's Hospital ($575k), Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ($450k).
- Does The Sarofim Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sarofim Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sarofim Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sarofim Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
- Where is The Sarofim Foundation based?
- The Sarofim Foundation is based in TX.
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