· Private foundation
Bob L Herd Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| East Texas Food Bank | $60,000 |
| Mentoring Alliance | $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 |
| Mission of Miracles Baird | $15,000 |
| United Way of Abilene | $15,000 |
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CASA FOR KIDS OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF NORTHEAST TEXAS dba ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TYLER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
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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