How much did SIMON & LOUISE HENDERSON FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of SIMON & LOUISE HENDERSON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

donations

2019

cancer

2020

—

2021

hope

2022

hopefestivalforest

2023

hopehudsonforest

2024

hopehudsonforest

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k32 grants · $121k
$10k–50k41 grants · $776k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants

HOSPICE IN THE PINES$50,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$45,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$40,000
LHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$40,000
LONG WAY HOME FOUNDATION$40,000
MUSEUM OF EAST TEXAS$30,300
BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES$30,000
VOLUNTEER SERVICES COUNCIL$26,000
ST CYPRIAN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH SCHOOL$25,000
ELLEN TROUT ZOO$25,000
THE JOSEPH HOUSE$25,000
LUFKIN HIGH SCHOOLART CLUB$25,000
GEORGE HENDERSON EXPO CENTER$25,000
HIGHLAND PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION$25,000
TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$25,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $941k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.4M · 112 repeat orgs$425k to everyone else

112 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

112

Total granted

$6.4M

$396k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+51%

Still filing today

32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

MO
MUSEUM OF EAST TEXAS
8× · 2017–2024 · $336k · revenue +57%
HI
HOSPICE IN THE PINES
8× · 2017–2024 · $301k · revenue +34%
AA
ANGELINA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +24%

Funded once

FP
FIDELITY PHILANTHROPY FUND
one grant, 2017 · $200k
PF
PHILANTHROPH FUND
one grant, 2018 · $95k
PP
PEAVY PRIMARY
one grant, 2020 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

East Texas Cares Resource Center

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The History Center

The history center collects, preserves, and makes available the history of our region and its people for the educational use and benefit of present and future generations. geographically, this area includes but is not limited to angelina…

Arts & Culture

Museum of South Texas History

To preserve and present the borderland heritage of south texas and northeastern mexico.

Arts & Culture

Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas

Not-for-profit, community owned, health care facilities with spiritual values, dedicated to providing high quality health services in a christian environment.

Health

Texas Health Resources

Through its affiliates, THR operates an integrated healthcare system with services and facilities throughout north central texas to improve healthcare.

Health

Christus Health Southeast Texas

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the teachings of the catholic church.

Health

North Central Texas Community Health Care

To provide access to quality affordable primary and preventative healthcare services in a safe environment to the underserved residents of north central texas. see schedule o.

Health

Texas Health Physicians Group

A FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF the people in the communities it serves, regarless of thier ability to pay.

Health

Texas Medical Center

The mission of the texas medical center ("tmc") is to promote the highest quality health status for all people by assisting institutions of the texas medical center to achieve individual and collective goals of the highest possible…

Health

Tex Elderly Housing Inc

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Texas Flying Legends Museum

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Catholic Charities of the Texas

Catholic charities of the texas panhandle supports the value and dignity of human life by working to promote self-worth and independence, and strives to meet the ever-changing needs of the community.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Womens Shelter of East Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Room to Read. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/48

the rest of the field

13%

17,176/136,756

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/42

Grantees still filing

34/42

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,616,750Human Services$1,113,900Arts & Culture$471,200Health$334,000Crime & Legal$200,000Animals$65,000Education$51,497

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ernest L Kurth Jr Charitable FoundationTX29.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ernest L Kurth Jr Charitable Foundation · The Pineywoods Foundation · The Bettye & Murphy George · Brookshire Brothers Charitable · The Moody Foundation · I D & Marguerite Fairchild · Hunter Family Charitable Foundation · Angelina Benefit Rodeo Foundation of The · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation SIMON & LOUISE HENDERSON FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LUFKIN CREATIVE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 932455496 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LUFKIN CREATIVE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 19% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Simon & Louise Henderson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Simon & Louise Henderson Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SIMON & LOUISE HENDERSON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Simon & Louise Henderson Foundation?

More from the funding graph

SIMON & LOUISE HENDERSON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Simon & Louise Henderson Foundation?

More from the funding graph