Whether the health of our environment, the guarantee of reproductive rights, or our interdependent relationship with the natural world, the Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation supports those working boldly toward a healthy, harmonious world for people and nature.

Announcing the Texas Coastal Frontline Fund

The Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation is pleased to launch the Texas Coastal Frontline Fund, a special grantmaking initiative that will provide flexible grants for community and legal action to curb pollution and drive an equitable clean energy transition in counties along Texas’ Gulf Coast.

The Fund is thanks to the work of our grantee partners, who secured a financial settlement with a corporation planning to expand industrial operations along the Texas Gulf Coast. These partners entrusted the Foundation with distributing the funds to those working on the frontlines. We are also grateful to the Texas Coastal Frontline Fund Committee, a group of community leaders charged with making grant award decisions for the Fund.

Applications are due October 24, 2025. Help is available to support applicants in developing proposals.

Are you a small group with a time-sensitive need?

The Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation invites you to learn about the Latitude Fund, a grantmaking program designed to provide quick-turnaround grants to grassroots groups working on environmental and reproductive justice in Texas to enhance capacity, functioning and impact. The inspiration for the Latitude Fund came from our grantee partners, who shared that real-time funding for internal needs can be a game-changer for community-based groups.

Read about our Latitude Fund Committee, a group of leaders with grassroots experience who are charged with making grant award decisions for the Fund.

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