· Private foundation
Jim G Hetherly Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,000 |
| CHARITY WATER | $10,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| NEW HORIZONS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MCMURRAY UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YLYOUNG LIFE9× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue +59%
- NHNEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC7× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +30%
MCMURRY UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- MFMARBLE FALLS INCLUSIVE PLAY GROUPone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- LCLAMPASAS COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +145%
FOOD FOR THE POOR INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -9%
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.
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.
Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.
East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARBLE FALLS INCLUSIVE PLAY GROUP ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAMPASAS COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds MCMURRY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jim G Hetherly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jim G Hetherly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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