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Terrell Foundation

Stephenville, TX · EIN 75-6036585. Reported 89 grants totalling $174,380 to 37 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,500median grant
$174,380granted, 2021-2024
37organizations funded
70%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,094,525assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Terrell Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $2,040; the smallest was $250 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
79 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Wesley FoundationStephenville, TX$15,000442024
Cross Timbers Family ServicesStephenville, TX$11,000332023
Stephenville Habitat for HumanityStephenville, TX$11,000332023
Erath County Humane SocietyStephenville, TX$10,500442024
Erath County Habitat for HumanityStephenville, TX$10,000112024
Mistletoe Hut Girl ScoutsStephenville, TX$9,000442024
Hope IncStephenville, TX$8,500442024
First United Methodist TreeStephenville, TX$7,000442024
Homelessness HelpStephenville, TX$6,000332024
Clairette Community CenterDublin, TX$5,500442024
Erath County Senior Citizens MowStephenville, TX$5,040332023
Restoration AdvocatesStephenville, TX$5,000442024
Dublin Public LibraryDublin, TX$4,650332024
Stephenville Independent SchoolStephenville, TX$4,515332024
Gfwc 20TH Century ClubStephenville, TX$4,240112022
Annies Therapeutic CompanionsDublin, TX$4,000332024
CASA for Cross Timbers AreaStephenville, TX$4,000222023
Cross Timbers Fine Arts CouncilStephenville, TX$4,000332024
Keep Stephenville BeautifulStephenville, TX$4,000222024
Texas Trails Council Boy Scouts AMEAbilene, TX$4,000442024
Fumc Dublin - Take Out MealsDublin, TX$3,500332023
Paluxy River Children's Advocacy BdGranbury, TX$3,500222022
Raising Youth ServicesDeleon, TX$3,500222024
Oakdale United Methodist ChurchStephebnville, TX$3,300112023
Erath County Child Welfare BdStephenville, TX$3,000332024
Fumc Community School SuppliesStephenville, TX$3,000332023
Lingleville Isd PTOLingleville, TX$2,500112024
White Horse Christian AcademyStephenville, TX$2,100222024
Erath County Master GardersStepenville, TX$2,000112021
Gfwc 2OTH Century ClubStephenville, TX$2,000112024
Stephenville Historical SocietyStephenville, TX$2,000112022
Stephenville Soccer AssociationStephenville, TX$2,000222022
Bluff Dale Education FoundationBluff Dale, TX$1,035112024
Morning Star RanchDublin, TX$1,000112023
Stephenville Coc FoundationStephenville, TX$1,000112022
Transformation Pathways CwjcDublin, TX$1,000112022
Upbeat CrusadersBluff Dale, TX$1,000112024

25 of 37 (68%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 70%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
13 grants
Animal Welfare
4 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Mental Health
3 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202117$21,500$1,000
202227$56,280$2,000
202323$45,550$2,000
202422$51,050$2,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Stephenville, TX
$134K
Dublin, TX
$20K
Abilene, TX
$4K
Deleon, TX
$4K
Granbury, TX
$4K
Stephebnville, TX
$3K
Lingleville, TX
$2K
Bluff Dale, TX
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc2 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Terrell Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 998, Stephenville, TX, 76401. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 75-6036585 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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