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Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$908k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
35
Grants FY2025
35
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$17,850
Largest grant, FY2025
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
25 to 35
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$13M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving32$908k19%
FY202435$961k29%
FY202329$656k28%
FY202228$790k29%
FY202125$740k24%
FY202029$591kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$999kHuman Services$822kArts & Culture$654kHealth$582kReligion$318kPhilanthropy$295kRecreation & Sports$219kYouth Development$186kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Retirement Home Inc$321,339623%
Christus Health Foundation$300,000352%
Lamar University Foundation Inc$300,00041%
Gulf Coast Youth Soccer Club Inc$213,820514%
Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program$210,00063%
All Saints Episcopal School$200,0005n/a
Girls' Haven Inc$198,00052%
Iea - Inspire Encourage Achieve$150,00065%
Art Museum of Southeast Texas$84,22752%
Port Arthur Police Blue Santa$50,000284%
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Retirement Home Inc$321,339623%
Christus Health Foundation$300,000352%
Lamar University Foundation Inc$300,00041%
Gulf Coast Youth Soccer Club Inc$213,820514%
Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program$210,00063%
All Saints Episcopal School$200,0005n/a
Girls' Haven Inc$198,00052%
Iea - Inspire Encourage Achieve$150,00065%
Art Museum of Southeast Texas$84,22752%
Port Arthur Police Blue Santa$50,000284%
St Marks Episcopal Church$50,0002n/a
Anayat House Inc$48,00067%
Texas Energy Museum Inc$40,00034%
Buckner Retirement Services Inc$39,99510%
Buckner Children & Family Services Inc$35,00010%
Retina Research Foundation$27,00050%
Lumberton Civic Womens League$25,0001n/a
Embracing Freedom Ministry$25,0001n/a
The School of Montessori Inc$25,0001n/a
Nutrition and Services for Seniors$20,85020%
Go 4 The Bell Inc$20,00024%
Symphony of Southeast Texas Inc$20,00012%
Penland Foundation$10,00012%
Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc$10,00010%
Southeast Texas Family Resource Center Inc$10,00013%
Beaumont Interfaith Choral Society$9,995321%
Center for Christian Services$7,50011%
Special Olympics of Texas Inc$5,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Retirement Home Inc: $321,339 over 6y, 23% of budgetChristus Health Foundation: $300,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetLamar University Foundation Inc: $300,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetGulf Coast Youth Soccer Club Inc: $213,820 over 5y, 14% of budgetJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program: $210,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetGirls' Haven Inc: $198,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetIea - Inspire Encourage Achieve: $150,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetArt Museum of Southeast Texas: $84,227 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPort Arthur Police Blue Santa: $50,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetAnayat House Inc: $48,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetTexas Energy Museum Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetBuckner Retirement Services Inc: $39,995 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuckner Children & Family Services Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRetina Research Foundation: $27,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNutrition and Services for Seniors: $20,850 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGo 4 The Bell Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetSymphony of Southeast Texas Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPenland Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheast Texas Family Resource Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBeaumont Interfaith Choral Society: $9,995 over 3y, 21% of budgetCenter for Christian Services: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage FoundationTX32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation

How much does Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation give?
Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $907,525 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Human Services (17%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Community Retirement Home Inc ($321k), Christus Health Foundation ($300k), Lamar University Foundation Inc ($300k).
Does Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation, Mechia Foundation, He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust.
Where is Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation based?
Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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