· Private foundation
Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $411k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRLS HAVEN | $150,000 |
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MARION & ED HUGHES PUBLIC LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| LAMAR UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY RETIREMENT HOME | $49,975 |
| Individual grant recipient | $28,000 |
| EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY | $25,000 |
| IEA - INSPIRE ENCOURAGE ACHIEVE | $25,000 |
| PORT NECHES POLICE DEPT | $25,000 |
| ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| EFFIE & WILTON HEBERT PUBLIC LIBRAR | $20,000 |
| JULIE ROGERS GIFT OF LIFE PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE GULF COAST | $18,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $623k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- GCGulf Coast Youth Soccer Club Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $214k · revenue +95%
- JRJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program6× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +49%
- GHGIRLS' HAVEN INC5× · 2020–2025 · $198k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CFCHRISTUS FOUNDATION - SETXone grant, 2024 · $100k
- MKMONSIGNOR KELLY CATHOLIC HIGHSCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $50k
- BRBUCKNER RETIREMENT SERVICES INCone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
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.
Provide support for southeast texas hospice inc, a non-profit organization providing hospice services for the southeast texas area
Christus health foundation of southeast texas serves the philanthropic needs of christus health southeast texas by soliciting and distributing contributions in support of christus health southeast texas.
Hospice of east texas foundation operates for the benefit of hospice of east texas, a texas non-profit corporation.
To foster transparency and uphold ethical standards across all levels of government in texas and empower citizens to hold their government accountable.
Promoting clean, safe, locally harvested solar energy for every Texan.
The mission of the organization is to raise funds to support texas charities selected by the founders and officers.
To fund neurofibromatosis research and education and to provide for support groups for those facing the illness.
Established for the financial support of hospice of texarkana, inc.
To receive, invest and distribute the charitable gifts for the endowment of texas public radio.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Penland Foundation. 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 68 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 COMMUNITY RETIREMENT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lamar University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Gulf Coast Youth Soccer Club Inc ↗
- Who funds Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program ↗
- Who funds GIRLS' HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds IEA - INSPIRE ENCOURAGE ACHIEVE ↗
- Who funds Art Museum of Southeast Texas ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds PORT ARTHUR POLICE BLUE SANTA ↗
- Who funds Anayat House Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ENERGY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER RETIREMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY ↗
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: Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · Mechia Foundation · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · B a and E W Steinhagen Benevolent Trust · Simpson-Omohundro Foundation Omohundro Educational Trust · Juanita Parker Corbin Charitable Tr Charitable Trust · Mildred Yount Manion Charitable Foundation · Penland Foundation · Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Young Mens Business League of Beaumont · Helen C & Curtis B Locke Charitable Trust
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 Wilton and Effie Hebert 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.
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.
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