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Su-Cla Foundation

Saint Louis, MO · EIN 32-0258890. Reported 75 grants totalling $134,500 to 31 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$134,500granted, 2021-2025
31recipients, as named on its returns
66%of grantees funded again the next year
$608,946assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Su-Cla Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $2,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
9 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
57 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Virginia Thompson Pearsall EducPearsall, TX$25,000432023
Pet Adoptions of CueroCuero, TX$21,000552025
Cuero Volunteer Fire DepartmentCuero, TX$10,000552025
Yoakum Volunteer Fire DepartmentYoakum, TX$10,000552025
Nay Nays Wildlife RehabilitationYoakum, TX$5,000442025
Virginia Thompson Pearsall Education FouPearsall, TX$5,000112025
Virginia Thompson Pearsall Education FoundationPearsall, TX$5,000112024
Fort Bend Cty Women's Ctr Pennywise Resale CenterRichmond, TX$4,000332023
American Cavy Breeders AssociationSevierville, TN$3,000332023
Boys & Girls Club of DewittCuero, TX$3,000332023
Boys and Girls Club of Cuero IncCuero, TX$3,000222025
Donum DeiNursery, TX$3,000222022
Friends of Gonzales Animal ShelterGonzales, TX$3,000222022
Gonzales Regional Children's AdvGonzales, TX$3,000332023
Gonzales Volunteer Fire DeptGonzales, TX$3,000332023
Hope of South TexasVictoria, TX$3,000222022
St Jude Childrens Research HospitalMemphis, TN$3,000222022
Amer Cavy Breeders Assn Youth ScholarshiSevierville, TN$2,000112025
Fort Bend County Womens Center IncRichmond, TX$2,000222025
Gonzales Dog Adoptions IncGonzales, TX$2,000332025
Gonzales Volunteer Fire DepartmentGonzales, TX$2,000222025
Judy's ArkPearsall, TX$2,000332023
Judys ArkPearsall, TX$2,000222025
The Wildlife Center of Texas IncHouston, TX$2,000222022
Victoria College FoundationVictoria, TX$2,000222022
Kingdom RescueGonzales, TX$1,500222025
American Cavy Breeders Association Youth ScholarshipSevierville, TN$1,000112024
Cuero Gobbler All Sports Booster Club inCuero, TX$1,000222025
Gonzales Reg Childrens Advocacy CenterGonzales, TX$1,000112025
Gonzales Regional Childrens Advocacy Center IncGonzales, TX$1,000112024
TraulynSugar Land, TX$1,000112024

24 of 31 (77%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 66%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 45 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Animal Welfare
18 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
12 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Education
3 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Crime & Legal
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202117$25,000$1,000
202218$35,000$1,250
202311$21,000$1,000
202415$26,000$1,000
202514$27,500$1,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

93% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Texas
$126K
Tennessee
$9K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Dickson-Allen Foundation4 shared recipientsGvec Charitable Foundation3 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc3 shared recipientsGreater Houston Community Foundation3 shared recipientsThe O'connor & Hewitt Foundation2 shared recipientsChildren's Advocacy Centers2 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Su-Cla Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 505 Mac H0006-092, Saint Louis, MO, 63166. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 32-0258890 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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