· Private foundation
William a Solomene Charitable 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 $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $938k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS | $1,075,000 |
| ST PHILLIPS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $425,000 |
| UTSW MEDICAL CENTER | $340,000 |
| FREE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $248,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| ACADEMY OF PHILOSOPHY | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $70,000 |
| ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| CHILDRENS MIRACLE NETWORK | $60,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| NEW OXFORD REVIEW | $40,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
27 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 10 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $540k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Dallas8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +5%
- ARANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $207k · revenue +3%
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $190k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- SPST PHILIP THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHUone grant, 2018 · $100k
- LXLEO XIII CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY &one grant, 2018 · $25k
- SCSPSA CATHOLIC ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $25k
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 foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Divine Mercy University is a Catholic graduate school of psychology and counseling, founded in 1999. The University is dedicated to the scientific study of psychology and counseling with a Catholic understanding of the person, marriage and…
Allbritton journalism institute aims to train a new generation of non-partisan political reporters from diverse backgrounds to produce high-quality, fact-based journalism.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
See Disclosure Above.
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 63 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 University of Dallas ↗
- Who funds Free Enterprise Institute ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE HELPING HAND ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds The Charlemagne Institute ↗
- Who funds New Oxford Review Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CLINIC ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William a Solomene Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William a Solomene Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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