Funding search · EIN 746039126 · Houston, TX

Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation

$19.3M
in grants paid: 498
grants: 264
recipients: 2022–2024
filing years

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

$455,000
Vanguard Charitable · Warwick, RI · 2024
Contribution to Donor Advised Fund
$250,000
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas · Dallas, TX · 2024
Toward developing Palo Pinto Mountains State Park
$250,000
Rockefeller Family Fund · New York, NY · 2024
Toward efforts to stop the buildout of oil export terminals along the Texas coast
$175,000
Public Citizen Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward accountability for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
$150,000
Center for Reproductive Rights · New York, NY · 2024
Toward operating support for the organization's work in Texas
$120,000
Air Alliance Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$100,000
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Toward the purposes of Organizing Resilience
$100,000
Healthy Gulf · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward the purposes of CEER
$90,000
Nuclear Information & Resource Service · Takoma Park, MD · 2024
Toward resisting new nuclear energy facilities and waste storage sites in Texas
$80,000
Bayou City Waterkeeper · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$77,000
Link Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$76,000
Commission Shift · Laredo, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$75,000
Inside Climate News · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Toward reporting on the issue of produced water in Texas
$75,000
Spark · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$75,000
Calhoun County Resource Watch · Seadrift, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$75,000
Texas Land Trust Council · Wimberley, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$75,000
The Film Collaborative · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Toward the Zurawski v. Texas film
$75,000
Lone Star Legal Aid · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward environmental justice legal services along the upper Texas coast
$75,000
Sierra Club Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024
Toward the purposes of the Lone Star chapter of the Sierra Club
$70,000
Jolt Initiative · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$65,500
Aclu Foundation of Texas · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward efforts to restore reproductive rights in Texas
$65,000
Environmental Integrity Project · Washington, DC · 2024
Toward operating support for the organization's work in Texas
$65,000
Public Citizen Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward the purposes of the Healthy Port Communities Coalition
$65,000
The Afiya Center · Dallas, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$65,000
Avow Foundation for Abortion Access · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$61,000
Texas Freedom Network Education Fund · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$60,000
Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$60,000
National Wildlife Federation · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward ensuring responsible storm surge protection along the upper Texas coast
$60,000
Texas Tribune · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward reporting on the environment and reproductive rights
$60,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Toward the purposes of RRRH
$60,000
Texas Impact Education Fund · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$60,000
National Wildlife Federation · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward advancing a sustainable water future for the people and wildlife of Texas
$60,000
Land Trust Alliance · Washington, DC · 2024
Toward building capacity among Texas land trusts
$51,000
Young Invincibles · Washington, DC · 2024
Toward general operations
$50,000
Rgisc · Laredo, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$50,000
Move Texas Civic Fund · San Antonio, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$50,000
Bayou Land Conservancy · Spring, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$50,000
Public Citizen Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward climate justice organizing in East Harris County
$50,000
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice · New York, NY · 2024
Toward general operations
$50,000
Achieving Community Tasks Successfully · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward improvements at Pleasantville Park
$50,000
Our Children'S Trust · Eugene, OR · 2024
Toward general operations
$50,000
Public Citizen Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward the purposes of Close Parish Coal coalition
$50,000
Powerhouse Texas · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$50,000
Coastal Prairie Conservancy · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$50,000
Galveston Bay Foundation · Kemah, TX · 2024
Toward accelerating land conservation along Galveston Bay
$50,000
Great Springs Project · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$50,000
Friends of Brazoria Wildlife Refuges · Lake Jackson, TX · 2024
Toward advancing land conservation along Texas' mid-coast
$50,000
Verde Valley School · Sedona, AZ · 2024
Toward Verde Valleys environmental education initiatives
$50,000
The Nature Conservancy · San Antonio, TX · 2024
Toward a coalition advancing nature-based solutions in Harris County
$50,000
Texas Land Conservancy · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$50,000
Texas Health and Environment Alliance · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$50,000
Austin Parks Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward advancing local parks
$50,000
Hill Country Alliance · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$50,000
Hill Country Conservancy · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$50,000
Sustainable Markets Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Toward the purposes of the Property Rights and Pipeline Center
$50,000
Houston in Action Network · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward building communications capacity for reproductive rights in Texas
$50,000
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2024
Toward advancing sustainable groundwater management in Texas
$50,000
Ipas · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
Toward power building for reproductive rights in Texas
$40,000
Center for Biological Diversity · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Toward legal action addressing environmental degradation along the lower Texas coast
$40,000
Fair Shot Texas · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$40,000
Public Citizen Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward resisting new nuclear energy facilities and waste storage sites in Texas
$40,000
Tides Center · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Toward the purposes of the Lawyering Project
$40,000
Common Defense Education Fund · New York, NY · 2024
Toward organizing veterans for climate justice in southeast Texas
$35,000
Texas Appleseed · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward environmental justice legal services in greater Houston
$35,000
Texas Agricultural Land Trust · Oakwood, TX · 2024
Toward the purposes of Ratcliff CBO
$35,000
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2024
Toward partnering with frontline leaders to advance clean air policies in Houston
$35,000
Hill Country Alliance · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward developing a 10-year land conservation plan for central Texas
$35,000
Save Barton Creek Association · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$35,000
Arise Adelante · Alamo, TX · 2024
Toward equipping residents of South Texas colonias to address environmental concerns
$35,000
Houston Pets Alive · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward operating support for the Gulf Coast Animal Welfare Alliance
$35,000
Deeds Not Words · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$35,000
Air Alliance Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward the purposes of Texas Streets Coalition
$35,000
Save Our Springs Alliance · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$35,000
Coalition of Community Organizations · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$35,000
Inside Climate News · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Toward operating support for Inside Climate News' Texas bureau
$35,000
Texas Water Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward supporting the Texas Water Caucus
$35,000
West Street Recovery · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward organizing for equitable flood mitigation infrastructure
$35,000
Texas Freedom Network · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward message testing
$35,000
Go Austin Vamos Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$35,000
Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward facilitation of the Texas Energy Justice, Equity and Democracy Table
$35,000
Earth Island Institute · Larkspur, CA · 2024
Toward the purposes of Project Coyote
$35,000
Texas Tribal Buffalo Project · Waelder, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$35,000
Texas State University Development Foundation · San Marcos, TX · 2024
Toward communicating correlative rights strategies to encourage sustainable groundwater management
$35,000
Pueblo Organizado En Defensa De La Tierra Y Sus Recursos · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$35,000
Urge Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity · Washington, DC · 2024
Toward operating support for the organization's work in Texas
$30,000
Turtle Island Restoration Network · Galveston, TX · 2024
Toward resisting oil and gas infrastructure expansion along the Texas gulf coast
$30,000
Rethink35 · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward legal action against the proposed I-35 expansion
$30,000
Texas Litter Control · Spring, TX · 2024
Toward expansion of veterinary capacity
$27,500
Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$25,000
Sunnyside Community Redevelopment Organization · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$25,000
Capital & Main · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Toward investigative reporting on climate issues in Texas
$25,000
American Forests · Washington, DC · 2024
Toward a film documenting the case for restoring native Thornforest habitat
$25,000
Austin Pets Alive · Austin, TX · 2024
Toward efforts to reduce shelter surrenders in underserved areas
$25,000
Coalition for Environment Equity and Resilience · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward building parks advocacy capacity in Houston
$25,000
Comal County Conservation Alliance · Canyon Lake, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$25,000
Deceleration · San Antonio, TX · 2024
Toward general operations
$25,000
Defenders of Wildlife · Washington, DC · 2024
Toward highlighting environmental degradation along the lower Texas coast
$25,000
East Harris County Empowerment Council · Houston, TX · 2024
Toward climate justice organizing in East Harris County
$25,000
Environmental Protection Network · Washington, DC · 2024
Toward technical assistance for Texas' frontline environmental justice advocates
$25,000
Environmental Stewardship · Bastrop, TX · 2024
Toward general operations

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call. Most private foundations do not accept unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.