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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 FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.2MYouth Development$776kCommunity Improvement$133kHealth$111kReligion$101kArts & Culture$33kEnvironment$23kHuman Services$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$479k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNG LIFE$50,000
FAITH ACADEMY OF BELLVILLE$50,000
BAYLOR BEAR FOUNDATION$48,600
FIRST UNITED METHODIST$35,000
MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST$5,000
STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC$5,000
BLUEBONNET SOCIETY$1,000
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 (FY17–19, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $1k → 12%THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $5k → 12%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 16 repeat orgs$597k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
31

Total granted

$3.0M
$493k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+17%

Still filing today

69%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +57%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $826k · revenue +38%
  • BS
    BYNUM SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2021 · $70k · revenue +296%

Funded once

  • FA
    FAITH ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $300k
  • WE
    WACO ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM COLLABORATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +32%
  • NC
    NOVI COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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2
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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3
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
4
Lone Star Conference

The mission of the lone star conference is to foster student participation and success among member institutions in ncaa division ii intercollegiate athletics as an integral part of each institution's total educational program. it shall…

Education
5
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
6
West Midland Family Center

The mission of west midland family center is to enhance the quality of life for each generation by providing growth and achievement opportunities within a caring environment.

Human Services
7
Midland School Corporation

Midland school provides a distinctive co-educational boarding school experience to a diverse student body in grades 9-12. through study and work, midland teaches the value of a lifetime of learning, self-reliance, simplicity,…

Education
8
Family and Child Guidance Center

Our mission is to provide quality mental health services to children and adults in low income families who are impacted by severe and persistent mental illness, emotional disturbances, child abuse and neglect, high-risk behaviors and…

Health
9
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
10
Community Children's Ministry

The clinic is a nonprofit ministry providing compassionate, affordable health care to children of midland county families experiencing income challenges.

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11
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
12
Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midland Shared Spaces Inc; the most unlike its peers is Midland Polo Inc. 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

23 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. 23 of the 50 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $1,759,767 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYBYNUM SCHOOL: $69,750 · EducationPATHNORTH INC: $66,500 · Education+1 more: $50,000 · EducationYOUNG LIFE: $826,045 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEFAITH ACADEMY: $300,000 · OtherFAITH ACADEMYFIRST UNITED METHODIST: $80,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODI…BAYLOR BEAR FOUNDATION: $48,600 · OtherBAYLOR BEAR FOUNDATI…MD ANDERSON CANCER RESEARCH: $47,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER R…FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $40,500 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODI…NOVI COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $25,000 · OtherUniversity of Texas of the Permian Basin: $22,500 · Other+26 more: $102,050 · Other+26 moreWACO ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM COLLABORATIVE INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementMIDLAND SHARED SPACES INC: $16,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $500 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $30,000 · HealthMIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $14,000 · HealthPERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER: $10,000 · HealthSTARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST: $22,500 · Arts & CultureHUMANITIES TEXAS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesCENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$1,946,017Youth Development$826,045Other$665,650Community Improvement$66,500Health$59,000Arts & Culture$32,500Human Services$16,000

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 budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $1,759,767 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $826,045 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBYNUM SCHOOL: $69,750 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPATHNORTH INC: $66,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetFAITH ACADEMY OF BELLVILLE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWACO ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM COLLABORATIVE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST: $22,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMIDLAND SHARED SPACES INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANITIES TEXAS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWACO TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMIDLAND FAIR HAVENS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Legacy Missions International: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Junior League of Houston Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP MIDLAND BEAUTIFUL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PATHNORTH INC ↗
  • Who funds FAITH ACADEMY OF BELLVILLE ↗
  • Who funds WACO ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND SHARED SPACES INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds PERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HUMANITIES TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WACO TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND FAIR HAVENS ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
  • Who funds CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES 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.

Permian Basin Area Fo…Abell-Hanger Foundati…Scharbauer Foundation…The Henry FoundationJohn and Maurine Cox …Beal FoundationWarren Charitable Fou…Paul and Katherine Mo…Yarborough FoundationHelen Greathouse Char…Walter & Jere Hubbard…The Fasken Foundation
Permian Basin Area FoundationTX30.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Hord Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hord 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 50 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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