· Private foundation
The Sklar Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEUHAUS EDUCATION CENTER | $20,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| GROWING UP NEW MEXICO | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD GULF COAST | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS | $5,000 |
| REMIND | $5,000 |
| INPRINT | $5,000 |
| DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER | $2,500 |
| HOUSTON SPCA | $2,000 |
| THE BOAT COMPANY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IIINPRINT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +17%
- HAHOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +10%
- RREMIND5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- VSVARIOUS SUPPORT ORG'NS FOR THE COMMUNITYone grant, 2020 · $204k
United Way of Greater Houstonone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +5%- VSVARIOUS SUPPORT ORG'NS FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $21k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
Hermann Park Conservancy is a citizens organization dedicated to the stewardship and improvement of Hermann Park - today and for generations to come.
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
See Schedule OHouston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a local arts and culture organization whose principal work is implementing the City of Houston's vision, values, and goals for its arts grantmaking and civic art investments. HAA conducts work…
Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…
See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…
To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.
American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
How this is measured
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds INPRINT INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds REMIND ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds SCENIC HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL HOUSTON CIVIC IMPROVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BakerRipley ↗
- Who funds Collaborative for Children ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds River Oaks Chamber Orchestra ↗
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: Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Kinder Foundation · The Tapeats Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sklar Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sklar Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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