How much does The Sarofim Foundation give?

The Sarofim Foundation reported 90 grants totaling $105,249,647 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

What does The Sarofim Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Arts & Culture (17%), Health (13%).

Who are The Sarofim Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: University of St Thomas ($8.0M), Baylor College of Medicine ($6.1M), The Trustees of Princeton University ($6.0M).

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 Brown Foundation Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc.

Where is The Sarofim Foundation based?

The Sarofim Foundation is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

The Sarofim Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 90
Grants FY2025: 62
Organizations funded FY2024

Read the full brief

Median grant, FY2025: $250,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $8,000,000
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $3.2B
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Education$49MArts & Culture$19MHealth$15MPhilanthropy$9.8MHuman Services$5.6MYouth Development$5.3MCommunity Improvement$5.3MFood & Nutrition$1.6MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of St Thomas	$8,025,000	2	5%
Baylor College of Medicine	$6,100,000	2	0%
The Trustees of Princeton University	$6,000,000	2	0%
The Kinkaid School Inc	$6,000,000	1	6%
St John's School	$6,000,000	1	5%
Harris Health Strategic Fund	$6,000,000	1	21%
Alley Theatre	$5,300,000	2	14%
The Foundation for Jones Hall	$5,017,647	1	55%
Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc	$5,000,000	1	n/a
The Hobby Center Foundation	$5,000,000	1	n/a

Show all 88 grantees

All grantees of The Sarofim Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of St Thomas	$8,025,000	2	5%
Baylor College of Medicine	$6,100,000	2	0%
The Trustees of Princeton University	$6,000,000	2	0%
The Kinkaid School Inc	$6,000,000	1	6%
St John's School	$6,000,000	1	5%
Harris Health Strategic Fund	$6,000,000	1	21%
Alley Theatre	$5,300,000	2	14%
The Foundation for Jones Hall	$5,017,647	1	55%
Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc	$5,000,000	1	n/a
The Hobby Center Foundation	$5,000,000	1	n/a
Camp For All Foundation	$5,000,000	1	24%
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School of Houston Inc	$5,000,000	1	n/a
Houston Christian University	$3,000,000	1	2%
Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area	$2,075,000	2	2%
Episcopal High School	$1,750,000	2	n/a
Depelchin Children's Center	$1,525,000	2	0%
Halo House Foundation	$1,500,000	1	n/a
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston	$1,275,000	2	16%
St George's School	$1,000,000	1	2%
Memorial Assistance Ministries	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Target Hunger Inc	$1,000,000	1	n/a
United Way of Greater Houston	$750,000	2	1%
Annunciation Orthodox School	$750,000	1	n/a
KIPP Texas Inc	$550,000	2	0%
YES Prep Public Schools Inc	$550,000	2	0%
Etoile Academy Inc	$550,000	2	2%
The Saint Constantine School	$500,000	1	3%
The Houston Food Bank	$500,000	2	0%
Incarnate Word Academy	$500,000	1	n/a
EMERGE Fellowship	$450,000	2	3%
Wonderland Educational Estate Dba Beatrice Mayes Institute	$450,000	2	2%
The Awty International School	$400,000	2	0%
Prounitas Inc	$400,000	2	9%
Menil Foundation Inc	$400,000	2	1%
Star of Hope Mission	$350,000	2	2%
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc	$350,000	2	1%
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston	$325,000	2	0%
The Tahirih Justice Center	$300,000	1	2%
Small Steps Nurturing Center	$300,000	2	3%
Thrive With Autism	$300,000	2	4%
Children's Museum Inc	$300,000	2	1%
The Forge for Families	$300,000	2	5%
Houston Classical Inc	$300,000	2	2%
Agape Development Ministries	$300,000	1	6%
The Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocesan Council of Austin	$285,000	2	2%
Search Homeless Services	$250,000	1	n/a
Good Reason Houston Inc	$250,000	1	3%
New Hope Housing Inc	$250,000	1	n/a
Onegoal	$250,000	1	1%
Discovery Green Conservancy	$225,000	2	2%
The Beacon of Downtown Houston	$200,000	1	n/a
Sharpen Recovery	$200,000	1	n/a
Chinquapin Preparatory School	$200,000	1	7%
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra	$200,000	1	10%
Stages	$200,000	2	2%
Teach for America Inc	$200,000	1	0%
CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare	$175,000	2	2%
Bloom Academy Inc	$150,000	1	2%
Child Advocates Inc	$150,000	1	n/a
Da Camera Society of Texas	$150,000	1	4%
Project Row Houses	$150,000	1	n/a
Kids' Meals Inc	$150,000	1	n/a
Hope and Healing Center & Institute	$150,000	1	5%
Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation	$130,000	2	1%
Eight Million Stories Inc	$125,000	1	14%
Game Conservancy USA Inc	$124,000	2	6%
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston	$115,000	2	n/a
Houston Symphony Society	$100,000	1	0%
Boys and Girls Country of Houston Inc	$100,000	1	1%
The Methodist Hospital Foundation	$100,000	1	n/a
Texas Children's Hospital	$100,000	1	0%
Texas Heart Institute	$100,000	1	n/a
Harbor Christian Academy	$100,000	1	9%
Friends of Pumpkin Park	$100,000	1	n/a
The Will Erwin Headache Research Foundation	$70,000	2	5%
Lighthouse For The Blind Of Houston Inc	$65,000	2	0%
Special Olympics of Texas Inc	$55,000	2	0%
Breakthrough T1d	$50,000	1	0%
Glenwood Cemetery Historic Preservation Foundation	$50,000	2	2%
The Chinati Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Harris County Hospital District Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
American Cancer Society Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc	$20,000	1	11%
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund	$20,000	1	0%
Whitney Museum of American Art	$15,000	1	0%
Families Empowered	$15,000	1	1%
The Junior League of Houston Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Houston Bar Foundation	$2,500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.

The Sarofim Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 68.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

The Brown Foundation IncTX76.8× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Cullen Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare The Sarofim Foundation with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Sarofim Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sarofim Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Sarofim Foundation

How much does The Sarofim Foundation give?: The Sarofim Foundation reported 90 grants totaling $105,249,647 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does The Sarofim Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Arts & Culture (17%), Health (13%).
Who are The Sarofim Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: University of St Thomas ($8.0M), Baylor College of Medicine ($6.1M), The Trustees of Princeton University ($6.0M).
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 Brown Foundation Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc.
Where is The Sarofim Foundation based?: The Sarofim Foundation is based in TX.