Texas · 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.
- $97k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Herndon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $97k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $96k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $96k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $105k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $94k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $96k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $93k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $93k | 49% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Governor's Mansion | $71,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Texas State History Museum Foundation | $42,544 | 9 | 1% |
| Central Texas Food Bank Inc | $38,300 | 9 | 0% |
| Helping Hand Home for Children Inc | $36,350 | 4 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $36,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Downtown Dallas Parks Conservancy | $27,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Regents School of Austin Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Partnerships for Children | $23,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The George W Bush Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Heartgift Foundation | $18,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($297k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Herndon Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About The Herndon Family Foundation
- How much does The Herndon Family Foundation give?
- The Herndon Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $97,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Herndon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Education (17%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are The Herndon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of the Governor's Mansion ($71k), Texas State History Museum Foundation ($43k), Central Texas Food Bank Inc ($38k).
- Does The Herndon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Herndon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Herndon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Shell USA Company Foundation, Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr.
- Where is The Herndon Family Foundation based?
- The Herndon Family Foundation is based in TX.
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