· Private foundation
Simon & Louise Henderson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOSPICE IN THE PINES | $50,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $45,000 |
| LONG WAY HOME FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $40,000 |
| LHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $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 |
| HIGHLAND PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GEORGE HENDERSON EXPO CENTER | $25,000 |
| BURKE CENTER | $25,000 |
| TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| LUFKIN HIGH SCHOOLART CLUB | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
109 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MOMuseum of East Texas8× · 2017–2024 · $336k · revenue +51%
- HIHOSPICE IN THE PINES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $301k · revenue +34%
- TSTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN8× · 2017–2024 · $238k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- FPFIDELITY PHILANTHROPY FUNDone grant, 2017 · $200k
- PFPHILANTHROPH FUNDone grant, 2018 · $95k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide shelter to abused families.
To provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
The family abuse center exists to eliminate domestic violence in central texas by sheltering victims of domestic violence and by preventing abuse from occurring through intervention and education.
The children's advocacy center of van zandt county is committed to ensuring quality services and support to those children impacted by abuse while also building a future where no child in van zandt county experiences abuse.
Hospice of east texas seeks to enhance the quality of life for individuals and families dealing with life-limiting illness and to assist bereaved family members by providing comprehensive, coordinated care and support.
Crisis center of west texas' mission is to respond, shelter, and educate to end domestic and sexual violence in west texas.
Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…
Texas Gun Sense is a statewide nonprofit and nonpartisan organization advocating to prevent gun violence and other gun tragedies in Texas through education, partnerships, and policy change.
Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…
The Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance (TNPHA) is a group of nonprofit hospices dedicated to sharing best practices and providing quality care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses.
Established in 1934, vna helps older adults live with dignity and independence at home by providing in-home care, food and friendship for the ill, hungry, and homebound.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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.
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 32 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 144 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Museum of East Texas ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE IN THE PINES INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELINA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOSEPH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BURKE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds WOMENS SHELTER OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUFKIN NEIGHBORHOOD STRONG ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ST CYPRIANS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ANGELINA COUNTY TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWN HOME RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOSAIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FORESTRY MUSEUM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Tll Temple Foundation · Ernest L Kurth Jr Charitable Foundation · The Pineywoods Foundation · The Bettye & Murphy George Foundation · Brookshire Brothers Charitable Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Hunter Family Charitable Foundation · Angelina Benefit Rodeo Foundation of the Lufkin Host Lions Club · I D & Marguerite Fairchild Foundation · Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc
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 organization 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.
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 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.