Texas · Nonprofit
Sow Family Foundation
Sow Family Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $675 to it, the largest being HOCHMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($675). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $102k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $675
- Net assets
- $29k
What Sow Family Foundation does
Mission
The Sow Family Foundations primary exempt purpose is to uplift underserved communities by providing direct charitable support in the areas of homelessness prevention food security mental wellness education family stabilization and refugee and humanitarian assistance. The Foundation fosters hope dignity stability and opportunity through community-led programs that nourish the body empower the mind and support healing resilience and long-term well-being.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Homelessness Prevention & Community Stabilization: Provided rent and utility assistance transportation support hygiene items blankets survival supplies emergency aid and resource navigation for individuals and families facing homelessness housing instability and crisis.
$49,640 spent35% of program spendingFeeding Hearts & Community Food Assistance: Provided hot meals beverages groceries food supplies and community meal outreach to individuals and families experiencing homelessness food insecurity and financial hardship.
$48,000 spent34% of program spendingYouth Refugee & Humanitarian Support: Provided backpacks school supplies gift cards educational support refugee assistance emergency family support and humanitarian aid locally and internationally.
$30,500 spent21% of program spendingHealing Circles Mental Wellness: Provided non-clinical community-led mental wellness support through reflection meditation safe conversations wellness activities and supportive spaces for underserved individuals and families.
$14,000 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $142,140.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $101k to $29k (−71%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Sow Family Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Rachid Sow
Executive Director
Board chair
Brian Hart
Corporate Engagement Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Sow Family Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Sow Family Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Sow Family Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Sow Family Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sow Family Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Sow Family Foundation?
- Sow Family Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $675 to it, the largest being HOCHMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($675). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sow Family Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $675 in grants to Sow Family Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Sow Family Foundation?
- HOCHMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sow Family Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing