Texas · Private foundation
The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $14M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 119
- Grants FY2024
- 89
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,255,397
- Organizations funded a year
- 69 to 89
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $294M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800k 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 | 92 | $14M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 89 | $14M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 89 | $11M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $9.3M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 77 | $11M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 76 | $11M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 76 | $12M | 42% |
| FY2017 | 69 | $6.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Tstc Foundation | $9,328,735 | 8 | 50% |
| Fort Bend Family Health Center Inc | $5,200,900 | 7 | 5% |
| Attack Poverty | $5,162,325 | 8 | 58% |
| Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc | $3,890,000 | 8 | 22% |
| Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest | $3,799,251 | 8 | n/a |
| Oakbend Medical Center | $3,638,786 | 8 | n/a |
| Fort Bend County Women's Center Inc Sos/Shelter-Outreach-Solutions | $3,546,000 | 8 | 22% |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston | $2,999,170 | 8 | 1% |
| Houston Galveston Institute Inc | $2,935,011 | 7 | 62% |
| United Way of Greater Houston | $2,344,859 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 144 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 114 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: The George Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Fort Bend Junior Service League · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Madison Charitable Foundation Inc · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc
How this is measured
Compare The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation with peer funders
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About The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation
- How much does The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation give?
- The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation reported 119 grants totaling $13,950,355 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 69 and 89 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (22%), Education (18%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Tstc Foundation ($9.3M), Fort Bend Family Health Center Inc ($5.2M), Attack Poverty ($5.2M).
- Does The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The George Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company.
- Where is The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation based?
- The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation is based in TX.
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