Texas · Private foundation
The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 55
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $26M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k 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 | 56 | $1.9M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $1.8M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $1.3M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $1.4M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $1.4M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $1.3M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc | $1,300,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc | $1,090,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Georgia O'Keeffe Museum | $690,000 | 6 | 2% |
| St Stephen's Episcopal School | $600,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Houston Botanic Garden | $510,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The Chinati Foundation | $305,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Episcopal High School | $235,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Waterloo Greenway Conservancy | $205,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Urban Harvest Inc | $190,000 | 7 | 4% |
| The Great Springs Project Inc (Audit) | $180,000 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 96 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($579k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 86 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.
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How this is measured
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About The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc
- How much does The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc give?
- The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc reported 57 grants totaling $1,955,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 55 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Arts & Culture (18%), Education (14%).
- Who are The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ($1.3M), Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc ($1.1M), Georgia O'Keeffe Museum ($690k).
- Does The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc?
- 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 Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc based?
- The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc is based in TX.
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