Texas · Private foundation
Hord 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.
- $195k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $479k
- 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 Hord Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $195k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $518k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $560k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $344k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $180k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $474k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $435k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $146k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor University | $1,759,767 | 8 | 0% |
| Young Life | $826,045 | 7 | 0% |
| Bynum School | $69,750 | 4 | 2% |
| Pathnorth Inc | $66,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Faith Academy of Bellville | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Waco Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Collaborative Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Texas of the Permian Basin | $22,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Museum of the Southwest | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Midland Shared Spaces Inc | $16,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 27 grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($605k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hord 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: Permian Basin Area Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · The Henry Foundation · John and Maurine Cox Foundation · Beal Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · Paul and Katherine Morrow Family Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Walter & Jere Hubbard Family Foundation · The Fasken Foundation
How this is measured
About Hord Foundation
- How much does Hord Foundation give?
- Hord Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $194,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hord Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (64%), Youth Development (23%), Community Improvement (4%).
- Who are Hord Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Baylor University ($1.8M), Young Life ($826k), Bynum School ($70k).
- Does Hord Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hord 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 Hord Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Permian Basin Area Foundation, Abell-Hanger Foundation, Scharbauer Foundation Inc.
- Where is Hord Foundation based?
- Hord Foundation is based in TX.
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