Texas · Private foundation
Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 174
- Grants FY2024
- 134
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $455,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 64 to 134
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $107M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 138 | $5.9M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 134 | $5.5M | 28% |
| FY2022 | 131 | $5.8M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 106 | $4.1M | 49% |
| FY2020 | 107 | $3.9M | 64% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $652,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Texas Southern University Foundatio | $501,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas | $477,425 | 4 | 1% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $445,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $440,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Air Alliance Houston | $430,500 | 6 | 6% |
| Bayou City Waterkeeper Inc | $395,500 | 6 | 22% |
| Spark | $381,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund | $370,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Avow Foundation for Abortion Access | $353,500 | 4 | 15% |
Show all 256 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 18 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Houston Endowment Inc · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Windward Fund · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Powell Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Still Water Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated
How this is measured
Compare Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation with peer funders
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About Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation
- How much does Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation give?
- Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation reported 174 grants totaling $6,844,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 134 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (48%), Philanthropy (9%), Animals (8%).
- Who are Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc ($652k), Texas Southern University Foundatio ($501k), Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas ($477k).
- Does Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Houston Endowment Inc, The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation, Shield-Ayres Foundation.
- Where is Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation based?
- Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation is based in TX.
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