· Private foundation
Willard Lowell Hendershott Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $54,500 |
| Family Crisis Center | $42,650 |
| Big Bend Shooting Foundation | $20,000 |
| Food Pantry of Alpine | $10,000 |
| Alpine Christian School | $10,000 |
| Casa Hogar Orphanage | $5,000 |
| Big Bend Community Baseball Inc | $5,000 |
| Friends of Big Bend Ranch | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FCFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC4× · 2020–2024 · $179k · revenue +8%
- SHSunshine House Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $156k · revenue +75%
- AHALPINE HUMANE SOCIETY5× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- AMALPINE MONTESSORI INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +5%
- ANADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +75%
- APAlpine Public Library Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +70%
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.
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.
Watershed collaboration and stewardship
To provide funding for Alpine School District schools and students.
Trail maintenance
Further the sport of figure skating to the international level
The mission of the Alaska Avalanche School is to provide exceptional experience-based avalanche safety education to all users of the mountain environment.
Our mission is to provide individualized educational options where students and teachers engage in playful, exploratory learning by creating a culture of collaboration in a safe, diverse, multi-age environment. Our students are encouraged…
The alpaca research foundation has been dedicated to funding medical and scientific research aimed at improving the health and vitality of north american alpacas. only research that is conducted and evaluated under the peer-review process…
In partnership with parents, the community, and in cooperation with Alpine School District, the School's purpose is to provide continuously challenging curriculum in a safe and nurturing learning environment. Our primary goal is to instill…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Sunshine House Inc ↗
- Who funds ALPINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALPINE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOOD PANTRY OF ALPINE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds ALPINE MONTESSORI INC ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alpine Public Library Association Inc ↗
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: Permian Basin Area Foundation · James a Buddy Davidson Charitable Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Willard Lowell Hendershott Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Willard Lowell Hendershott Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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