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Simon & Louise Henderson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Simon & Louise Henderson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$947k
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MHealth$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MArts & Culture$605kReligion$325kCrime & Legal$316kYouth Development$231kRecreation & Sports$210kOther$0
02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $776k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BURKE CENTER$25,000
TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$25,000
THE JOSEPH HOUSE$25,000
HIGHLAND PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
LUFKIN HIGH SCHOOLART CLUB$25,000
ST CYPRIAN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH SCHOOL$25,000
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIORS: $10k → 12%DOWN HOME RANCH: $10k → 12%DOWN HOME RANCH: $10k → 12%DOWN HOME RANCH: $10k → 12%DOWN HOME RANCH: $10k → 12%HOSPICE IN THE PINES: $50k → 16%HOSPICE IN THE PINES: $50k → 16%WOMEN'S SHELTER OF EAST TEXAS: $20k → 23%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $40k → 16%WOMEN'S SHELTER OF EAST TEXAS: $10k → 23%WOMEN'S SHELTER OF EAST TEXAS: $10k → 23%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $40k → 16%WOMEN'S SHELTER OF EAST TEXAS: $10k → 23%WOMEN'S SHELTER OF EAST TEXAS: $10k → 23%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 16%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 16%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 14%HOSPICE IN THE PINES: $20k → 16%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 16%TO BE LIKE ME: $10k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 16%HOSPICE IN THE PINES: $20k → 16%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 16%HOSPICE IN THE PINES: $11k → 16%THE FAMILY PLACE: $20k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $20k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $15k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $15k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $10k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $10k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%HOSPICE IN THE PINES: $50k → 16%HOSPICE IN THE PINES: $50k → 16%HOSPICE IN THE PINES: $50k → 16%BURKE CENTER: $25k → 16%BURKE CENTER: $25k → 16%BURKE CENTER: $25k → 16%BURKE CENTER: $25k → 16%BURKE CENTER: $20k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
OH
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
SC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 109 repeat orgs$420k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109
31

Total granted

$6.4M
$392k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+59%

Still filing today

45%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • MO
    Museum of East Texas
    8× · 2017–2024 · $336k · revenue +57%
  • HI
    HOSPICE IN THE PINES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $301k · revenue +34%
  • TS
    TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $238k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • FP
    FIDELITY PHILANTHROPY FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • PF
    PHILANTHROPH FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $95k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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
Shelter Agencies for Families in East Texas

To provide shelter to abused families.

Human Services
2
Eastland County Crisis Center Inc

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.

Human Services
3
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
4
Family Abuse Center Inc

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.

Human Services
5
Childrens Advocacy Center of Van Zandt County Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Hospice of East Texas

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.

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7
Crisis Center of West Texas

Crisis center of west texas' mission is to respond, shelter, and educate to end domestic and sexual violence in west texas.

—
8
Lone Star Casa Inc

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…

Civil Rights
9
Texas Gun Sense

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.

Civil Rights
10
Texas Legal Services Center Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
11
Texas Non-Profit Hospice Alliance

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.

Human Services
12
Visiting Nurse Association of Texas

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; 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.
04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 144 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/57
Grantees still filing
42/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LONG WAY HOME FOUNDATION: $285,000 · OtherLONG WAY HOME FOUNDATIONLHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $280,000 · OtherLHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $220,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $202,000 · OtherFIDELITY PHILANTHROPY FUND: $200,000 · OtherGEORGE HENDERSON EXPO CENTER: $161,000 · Other+101 more: $2,631,250 · Other+101 moreHOSPICE IN THE PINES INC: $301,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE IN THE PINES…BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $210,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDREN & F…BURKE CENTER: $145,000 · Human ServicesBURKE CENTERWOMENS SHELTER OF EAST TEXAS INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS SHELTER OF EA…The Family Place: $102,000 · Human ServicesThe Family PlaceDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $78,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S AD…DOWN HOME RANCH INC: $58,000 · Human ServicesTHE MOSAIC CENTER INC: $50,200 · Human Services+9 more: $171,200 · Human Services+9 moreTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $237,500 · HealthTEXAS SCOT…THE JOSEPH HOUSE INC: $163,000 · HealthTHE JOSEPH…PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $120,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $90,000 · HealthST JUDE CH…+3 more: $37,000 · Health+3 moreMuseum of East Texas: $336,200 · Arts & CultureTEXAS FORESTRY MUSEUM: $50,000 · Arts & CultureANGELINA ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureLUFKIN CREATIVE INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $110,000 · EducationRISE SCHOOL OF DALLAS: $45,000 · EducationAngelina College Foundation: $32,500 · EducationLISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $11,497 · EducationROOM TO READ: $7,500 · EducationANGELINA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $170,000 · Crime & LegalNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $30,000 · Crime & LegalLUFKIN NEIGHBORHOOD STRONG: $110,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $2,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,979,250Human Services$1,235,400Health$647,500Arts & Culture$471,200Education$206,497Crime & Legal$200,000Housing & Shelter$112,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMuseum of East Texas: $336,200 over 8y, 14% of budgetHOSPICE IN THE PINES INC: $301,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $237,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $210,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetANGELINA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $170,000 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetTHE JOSEPH HOUSE INC: $163,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetBURKE CENTER: $145,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS SHELTER OF EAST TEXAS INC: $120,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $120,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLUFKIN NEIGHBORHOOD STRONG: $110,000 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetThe Family Place: $102,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST CYPRIANS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $85,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $78,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF ANGELINA COUNTY TEXAS: $75,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetPI BETA PHI FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDOWN HOME RANCH INC: $58,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MOSAIC CENTER INC: $50,200 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetTEXAS FORESTRY MUSEUM: $50,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetANGELINA ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLUFKIN CREATIVE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $37,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE INC OF LUFKIN: $34,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetTEXAS GAME WARDEN ASSOC: $34,000 over 7y, 8.8% of budgetAngelina College Foundation: $32,500 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $30,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN INFORMATION & SERVICE CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $24,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANGELINA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $22,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE COUNCIL DEEP EAST TEXAS: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSEASONS OF HOPE CENTER: $19,500 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetFULLER SPRINGS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $16,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetANGELINA BEAUTIFULCLEAN: $16,000 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetPAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEast Texas Cancer Alliance of Hope: $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $11,497 over 3y, 14% of budgetAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS: $10,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTO BE LIKE ME: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJDS CENTER OF HOPE Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetROOM TO READ: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTICK HORSES AND CAPES INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.6% 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 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 WOMENS SHELTER OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Tll Temple FoundationErnest L Kurth Jr Cha…The Pineywoods Founda…The Bettye & Murphy G…Brookshire Brothers C…The Moody FoundationHunter Family Charita…Angelina Benefit Rode…I D & Marguerite Fair…Mary K and Clifford G…Greater Houston Commu…Communities Foundatio…
Tll Temple FoundationTX36.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Simon & Louise Henderson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simon & Louise Henderson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    10report 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 144 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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