· Private foundation
The Susman Foundation (Formerly Susman Family Foundation)
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIRSHHORN MUSEUM | $300,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $20,000 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ANDERSON RANCH COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $2,500 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM DINNER | $2,250 |
| SNAP | $1,500 |
| FRESH AIR FUND | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE CHINATI FOUNDATION- MARFA | $1,000 |
| JEWISH DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| SIRE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
31 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NYNew York University2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +76%
- NINXTHVN INC2× · 2020–2021 · $500k · revenue +650%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION2× · 2022–2024 · $350k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINone grant, 2019 · $50k
- HMHIRSHHORN MUSEUM TRUSTEE ANNUAL AMOUNTone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TUThe University of Texas Law School Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +187%
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…
How this is measured
40 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. 40 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.
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- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
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- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN ↗
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- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Alkek and Williams Foundation · Hobby Family Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Susman Foundation (Formerly Susman Family Foundation) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Susman Foundation (Formerly Susman Family Foundation). Bigger dots raise more.
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- Nxthvn Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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