Sam & Ada Petro Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 546587689
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7134174444
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $4,752
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Private Grantmaking Foundations
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 3 grants totaling $3,582. The stated grant purposes included support of programs to end alzheimer's by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support., support of program to provide the best possible health care for every member of our community conduct advanced medical research and educate our community through outreach programs., and support of programs that integrate patient care, research and prevention, and through education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the public..
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this foundation funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 89% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 75
- Cost Efficiency: 75
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 100
- Endowment Health: 90
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 75; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 75.4%; rating input score 75; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 31.39; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: 75.3% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 90th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.