Texas · Private foundation
Bess L Rayford 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.
- $125k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Bess L Rayford Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $125k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $126k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $128k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $104k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $116k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $120k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $120k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Club of Rusk County | $255,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Keep Henderson Beautiful Inc | $80,000 | 5 | 47% |
| Henderson Interchurch Ministry | $65,500 | 9 | 7% |
| One Step at a Time | $62,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Henderson Food Bank | $55,000 | 9 | 13% |
| Rusk County Heritage Association | $47,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Henderson Isd Education Foundation Inc | $37,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Rusk County Friends Helping Friends | $35,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Rusk County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc | $30,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Henderson Civic Center Inc | $23,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Club of Rusk County | $255,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Keep Henderson Beautiful Inc | $80,000 | 5 | 47% |
| Henderson Interchurch Ministry | $65,500 | 9 | 7% |
| One Step at a Time | $62,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Henderson Food Bank | $55,000 | 9 | 13% |
| Rusk County Heritage Association | $47,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Henderson Isd Education Foundation Inc | $37,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Rusk County Friends Helping Friends | $35,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Rusk County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc | $30,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Henderson Civic Center Inc | $23,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Rusk County Child Welfare Board Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Think Paws-Itive Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 31% |
| Spca of East Texas Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Henderson Civic Theatre Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Rusk County Pets Alive | $5,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Wiley College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($287k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bess L Rayford Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Henderson Memorial Hospital Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · John & Susan Landon Alford Foundation · United Way of Rusk County Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Bess L Rayford Foundation
- How much does Bess L Rayford Foundation give?
- Bess L Rayford Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $125,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bess L Rayford Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (24%), Arts & Culture (15%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Bess L Rayford Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys and Girls Club of Rusk County ($255k), Keep Henderson Beautiful Inc ($80k), Henderson Interchurch Ministry ($66k).
- Does Bess L Rayford Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bess L Rayford Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bess L Rayford Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Henderson Memorial Hospital Foundation, East Texas Communities Foundation, John & Susan Landon Alford Foundation.
- Where is Bess L Rayford Foundation based?
- Bess L Rayford Foundation is based in TX.
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