· Private foundation
Bob L Herd Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $1,225,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,330,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $105,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $443k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| All Saints Episcopal School | $500,000 |
| Children's Advocacy Center | $200,000 |
| Bethesda Health Clinic | $73,000 |
| Mentoring Alliance | $60,000 |
| East Texas Food Bank | $60,000 |
| Texas Tech University Foundation | $50,000 |
| Junior League of Tyler, Inc. | $35,000 |
| Discovery Science Place | $30,000 |
| Tyler Police Foundation | $25,000 |
| City of Tyler Fire Dept | $25,000 |
| Smith County Sheriff's Dept | $25,000 |
| Marvin Methodist Church | $20,000 |
| Tyler Economic Development Council | $20,000 |
| United Way Tyler/Smith County | $15,000 |
| United Way of Abilene | $15,000 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $854k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PAPROMISE ACADEMY3× · 2019–2022 · $872k · revenue +419%
- HOHOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS4× · 2017–2022 · $179k · revenue +10%
- TJTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TYLER INC4× · 2017–2022 · $140k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- EFETMC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $505k
- TJTYLER JR. COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $201k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLERone grant, 2017 · $200k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
Preserve access to quality healthcare for all texans
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
The association's purpose is to promote the role of the pharmacist and the practice of pharmacy in the state of texas.
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
The texas academy of family physicians is dedicated to the promotion of a health care environment that values the vital role of family physicians in providing quality, comprehensive care to all texans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kourage Health Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 87 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PROMISE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TYLER INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC ↗
- Who funds TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF NORTHEAST TEXAS dba ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR KIDS OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds TYLER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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