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Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord 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.

$209k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$4.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthReligionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$209k40%
FY20249$65k33%
FY20237$40k14%
FY20227$38k57%
FY20217$33k57%
FY20209$29k100%
FY20193$30k33%
FY20185$26k20%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$60kArts & Culture$50kHuman Services$46kEnvironment$40kPublic Benefit$31kHousing & Shelter$25kFood & Nutrition$21kHealth$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas Tribune Inc$66,00060%
National Ghost Ranch Foundation$49,00030%
The Clear Fund$40,00040%
Wimberley Valley Watershed Association$30,00030%
Austin Theatre Alliance$25,00010%
Hill Country Alliance$22,50031%
Breast Cancer Resource Center$22,50021%
Hays-Caldwell Women's Center$20,00020%
Wimberley Community Chorus Inc$20,0003n/a
Youth and Family Alliance$15,00030%
Show all 27 grantees
All grantees of Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas Tribune Inc$66,00060%
National Ghost Ranch Foundation$49,00030%
The Clear Fund$40,00040%
Wimberley Valley Watershed Association$30,00030%
Austin Theatre Alliance$25,00010%
Hill Country Alliance$22,50031%
Breast Cancer Resource Center$22,50021%
Hays-Caldwell Women's Center$20,00020%
Wimberley Community Chorus Inc$20,0003n/a
Youth and Family Alliance$15,00030%
Wimberley Valley Radio$15,000216%
Central Texas Food Bank Inc$12,00040%
The Women's Home$10,00020%
Mission of Mercy Inc$10,00010%
St Stephens Episcopal School$10,0001n/a
San Antonio Food Bank$7,00010%
Wimberley Players Inc$5,00011%
J Street Education Fund Inc$5,00010%
Young Men's Christian Association of Austin$5,00010%
Citizens Climate Education Corp$5,00010%
Jeremiah Program$5,00010%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$2,50010%
Pink Warrior Advocates$2,50011%
The Houston Food Bank$2,00010%
BookSpring$1,00010%
Givedirectly Inc$1,00010%
Wimberley Village Library Foundation$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($125k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas Tribune Inc: $66,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNational Ghost Ranch Foundation: $49,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Clear Fund: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWimberley Valley Watershed Association: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAustin Theatre Alliance: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHill Country Alliance: $22,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBreast Cancer Resource Center: $22,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHays-Caldwell Women's Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYouth and Family Alliance: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWimberley Valley Radio: $15,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Women's Home: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMission of Mercy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Antonio Food Bank: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWimberley Players Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJ Street Education Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Austin: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens Climate Education Corp: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJeremiah Program: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPink Warrior Advocates: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBookSpring: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGivedirectly Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Burdine Johnson Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · Abundant Grace Foundation · Harry L Willett Foundation C O Boyd Ryan · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation

How much does Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation give?
Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $209,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (18%), Arts & Culture (15%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Texas Tribune Inc ($66k), National Ghost Ranch Foundation ($49k), The Clear Fund ($40k).
Does Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord 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 Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, The Burdine Johnson Foundation, United Way for Greater Austin.
Where is Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation based?
Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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