· Private foundation
The Herndon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ANDREWS FUND | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION | $10,000 |
| CAMP JOHN MARC | $10,000 |
| SHELBURNE FARMS | $5,000 |
| SCOTTISH RITE FOR CHILDREN - DALLAS | $5,000 |
| GEORGE W BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILRDEN'S HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLAR TUNNEL TO TOWERS FDN | $3,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| AIR FORCE AID SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS CENTRAL TEXAS | $2,000 |
| HEART GIFT FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| TEXAS PARKS WILDLIFE FOUND | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION9× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +156%
- TSTEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +20%
Central Texas Food Bank Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- SFSETON FUNDone grant, 2017 · $5k
- HBHARVEST BIBLE CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
- RCRED CROSS OF CENTRAL TEXASone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
We believe every texas student deserves the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential or degree that helps them achieve the future they envision for themselves and their families. we invest in the programs, practices, and policies…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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 33 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 94 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 FRIENDS OF THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds REGENTS SCHOOL OF AUSTIN INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN AREA SCHOOL FOR DYSLEXICS INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds AIR & SPACE FORCES AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC ↗
- Who funds St Edwards University ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · Strake Foundation · Better Business Bureau · United Way Worldwide · Topfer Family Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 The Herndon Family 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.
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
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.