Texas · Private foundation
Bob L Herd Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 30
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 39
- FY2017 to FY2022
- Total assets, FY2024
- $32M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 44% of the organizations Bob L Herd Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $465k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 30 | $1.2M | 67% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $1.4M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $1.3M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $1.5M | 18% |
| FY2017 | 39 | $1.2M | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Promise Academy | $871,626 | 3 | 3% |
| Hospice of East Texas | $179,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Junior League of Tyler Inc | $140,000 | 4 | 10% |
| East Texas Crisis Center Inc | $130,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Baby2baby | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bethesda Health Clinic | $116,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Path - People Attempting to Help | $110,000 | 4 | 2% |
| United Way of Abilene Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Tyler Junior College Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bob L Herd Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Rogers Foundation · A S Genecov Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · The Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation · James I Perkins Family Foundation · Riter Family Foundation · Hibbs Family Foundation · Byers Family Foundation · Etx Successor System · The Junior League of Tyler Inc · Hoeffner Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bob L Herd Foundation
- How much does Bob L Herd Foundation give?
- Bob L Herd Foundation reported 30 itemized grants totaling $1,225,000, out of $1,330,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Bob L Herd Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (16%), Crime & Legal (12%), Health (4%).
- Who are Bob L Herd Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Promise Academy ($872k), Hospice of East Texas ($179k), The Junior League of Tyler Inc ($140k).
- Does Bob L Herd Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bob L Herd Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bob L Herd Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rogers Foundation, A S Genecov Foundation, East Texas Communities Foundation.
- Where is Bob L Herd Foundation based?
- Bob L Herd Foundation is based in TX.
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