Summerfield G Roberts Foundation
Dallas, TX · EIN 75-2341916. Reported 71 grants totalling $2,782,432 to 47 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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. Summerfield G Roberts 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.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $11,233 and $57,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $124,285. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Christian University | Fort Worth, TX | $285,203 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Alton Ochsner Clinic Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $254,222 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Southern Methodist University | Dallas, TX | $185,204 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Smu - Clements Center | Dallas, TX | $165,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Children's Medical Center Foundation | Dallas, TX | $157,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Texas Tech University Foundation | Lubbock, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Texas at Dallas | Richardson, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas State Historical Association | Austin, TX | $95,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | Lubbock, TX | $95,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management | Richardson, TX | $95,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mary Crowley Medical Research Center | Dallas, TX | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ut Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, TX | $67,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fort Chadbourne Foundation | Bronte, TX | $60,015 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Fd | Mcallen, TX | $59,875 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Mary Crowley Medical Research Center Cancer Research Center | Dallas, TX | $57,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Texas Medical at Galveston | Galveston, TX | $57,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Washington on the Brazos Historical Foundation | Washington, TX | $57,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Texas Center for Schreiner Uni | Kerrville, TX | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mcwhiney History Education Group | Buffalo Gap, TX | $52,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Remember the Alamo Foundation | San Antonio, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas a & M University Foundation | College Station, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Shumla School Inc | Dallas, TX | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Ut Southwestern Health Systems | Dallas, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Ochsner Clinic Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $49,871 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mary Crowley Medical Research Center Center | Dallas, TX | $47,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of North Texas Health Science Center | Fort Worth, TX | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, TX | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wipe Out Kid's Cancer Inc | Dallas, TX | $34,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Foundation | Edinburg, TX | $29,842 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dallas Historical Society | Dallas, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Frontiers of Flight Museum Inc | Dallas, TX | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Humanities Texas | Austin, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Texas Center for Schreiner University | Kerrville, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Preservation Dallas | Dallas, TX | $24,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Admiral Nimitz Foundation | Fredericksburg, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Witte Museum | San Antonio, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Daughters of the Republic of Texas Inc | Austin, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas A&m University Press | College Station, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Washington on the Brazos Historical Fdn | Washington, TX | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alliance for Texas History | Kingwood, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Dallas County Medical Society Alliance | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| National Medal of Honor Museum Fnd | Arlington, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Texas Press | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Preservation Austin | Austin, TX | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Gregg County Historical Foundation | Longview, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| No 1 British Flying Training School Museum Inc | Terrell, TX | $4,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Museum of the Stonewall Saloon | Saint Jo, TX | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
12 of 47 (26%) 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 35%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Texas Christian University
NEELEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - University of Texas at Dallas
MBA SCHOLARSHIPS FOR TEXAS - Texas Tech Foundation Inc
SUPPORT FOR MSMRA PROGRAM - Southern Methodist University
SGR COX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Mary Crowley Medical Research Center
THERAPY CLINICAL TRIALS IN - Texas State Historical Association
SUPPORT FOR TEXAS HISTORY
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 37 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13 | $522,820 | $49,871 |
| 2022 | 13 | $544,553 | $40,000 |
| 2023 | 11 | $455,233 | $40,000 |
| 2024 | 15 | $662,285 | $25,000 |
| 2025 | 19 | $597,541 | $20,000 |
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
89% 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.
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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.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
- 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.
- 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 Summerfield G Roberts 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 653067, Dallas, TX, 75265. 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.
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