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Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $199k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TEXAS TRIBUNE$35,000
NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION$34,000
GIVEWELL$30,000
AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE$25,000
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000
HAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER$20,000
BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER$20,000
WIMBERLEY VALLEY WATERSHED ASSOCIATION$15,000
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$5,000
CITIZEN'S CLIMATE EDUCATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN'S HOME: $5k → 16%MISSION OF MERCY: $10k → 17%WOMEN'S HOME: $5k → 16%YMCA OF AUSTIN: $5k → 10%LIFEWORKS AUSTIN: $5k → 10%LIFEWORKS AUSTIN: $5k → 10%LIFEWORKS AUSTIN: $5k → 10%HAYS CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 10%HAYS CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$407k · 16 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
16

Total granted

$407k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+23%

Still filing today

69%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentReligionHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TEXAS TRIBUNE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +22%
  • NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $49k · revenue +48%
  • TC
    THE CLEAR FUND
    4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • MO
    MISSION OF MERCY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +53%
  • SS
    ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +18%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Texas Water Foundation

Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…

Environment
2
Texas Water Trade

Creating markets for innovative water resiliency projects.

Environment
3
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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4
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
5
American Water Works Association- Texas Section

To advance public health, safety and welfare by uniting the efforts of the full spectrum of the water community.

Public Benefit
6
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas

Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…

Environment
7
Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…

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8
Texas Medical Association

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…

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9
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
10
Women's Health and Family Planning Association of Texas dba Every Body Tx

Women's Health and Family Planning Association of Texas ("WHFPT") is dedicated to the belief that all Texans deserve the right to determine the number, timing, and spacing of their children through access to affordable, confidential,…

Health
11
Texans for Lawsuit Reform

See Schedule OTLR works to shape policy primarily in the Texas civil justice and court system through public education, legislative advocacy and building broad public support for a fair, competent and honest judiciary as well as a fair,…

Crime & Legal
12
Good Work Austin

Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hays-Caldwell Women's Center; the most unlike its peers is Wimberley Valley Radio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WIMBERLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $35,000 · OtherWIMBERLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $30,000 · OtherHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTERTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITYWIMBERLEY COMMUNITY CHORUS INC: $20,000 · OtherWIMBERLEY COMMUNITY CHORUS INCKLRU: $10,000 · OtherLIFEWORKS: $10,000 · OtherST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $7,000 · OtherBREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER: $22,500 · OtherBREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTERCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $12,000 · OtherCentral Texas Food Bank Inc+8 more: $30,500 · Other+8 moreTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $66,000 · EducationTEXAS TRIBUNE INCWimberley Valley Watershed Association: $30,000 · EducationWimberley Valley Wat…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesHAYS-CALDWEL…YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $15,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND FA…THE WOMEN'S HOME: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S …MISSION OF MERCY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMISSION OF M…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $5,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S …+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION: $49,000 · ReligionNATIONAL GH…J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000 · ReligionJ STREET ED…AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN TH…Wimberley Valley Radio: $15,000 · Arts & CultureWimberley…Wimberley Players Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWimberley…THE CLEAR FUND: $40,000 · PhilanthropyHill Country Alliance: $22,500 · EnvironmentCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP: $5,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,500 · Environment
Other$207,000Education$97,000Human Services$61,000Religion$54,000Arts & Culture$45,000Philanthropy$40,000Environment$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 Foun…The Burdine Johnson F…United Way for Greate…St David's FoundationAbundant Grace Founda…Harry L Willett Found…Shield-Ayres Foundati…The Moody FoundationGreater Houston Commu…United Way WorldwideThe Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert Kenneth and Janet Cleaves Acord Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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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