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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 27-2931971

The Credence Foundation

A private foundation in Bellaire, TX. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 26 grants and $166,687 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

6 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $166,687

    Grants listed
    26
    Assets, end of year
    $856,084

  • Tax year 2024

    $271,392

    Grants listed
    23
    Assets, end of year
    $936,470

  • Tax year 2023

    $67,021

    Grants listed
    26
    Assets, end of year
    $1,054,483

  • Tax year 2022

    $90,755

    Grants listed
    32
    Assets, end of year
    $1,010,817

  • Tax year 2021

    $48,909

    Grants listed
    33
    Assets, end of year
    $927,073

  • Tax year 2020

    $37,532

    Grants listed
    28
    Assets, end of year
    $913,693

Grants paid in 2025

26 grants, largest first

As listed on the return. Grants to individuals show as “Individual”, with purpose and amount only.

  1. Cross Catholic OutreachBoca Raton, FL

    Provide funds for housing for impoverished families

    $81,000
  2. Catholic Charities USAAlexandria, VA

    Provide disaster relief funds for victims of hurricanes helene and milton

    $10,000
  3. Missionary Sisters of the EucharistHouston, TX

    Provide funds to serve the poor, needy, and abandoned

    $10,000
  4. Individual

    Payments for replacement mailbox, new hot water heater, utilities, property taxes, and auto, home, & medical insurances

    $9,830
  5. Individual

    Payments for housing and car repairs

    $9,531
  6. Individual

    Payments for housing, utilities, and house cooling fan

    $6,060
  7. Catherine's House IncBelmont, NC

    Provide funds for transitional housing for homeless women and children

    $5,000
  8. Center of Family LoveOkarche, OK

    Provide funds to house and care for developmentally challenged adults

    $5,000
  9. Gospel of Life AssociationMoore, OK

    Provide funds to house and care for poor elderly and terminally ill adults

    $5,000
  10. Individual

    Payment for housing and auto

    $4,783
  11. Individual

    Payment for housing

    $3,582
  12. Individual

    Payment for utilities

    $2,732
  13. Individual

    Payments for housing and utilities

    $2,088
  14. Individual

    Payment for housing

    $2,078
  15. Individual

    Payments for housing and utilities

    $1,229
  16. Individual

    Payment for housing

    $1,050
  17. Angelmira's Center for Women with Advanced CancerBellaire, TX

    Provide funds to care for women diagnosed with advanced metastatic cancer to improve their quality of life

    $1,000
  18. Dalit SolidaritySan Diego, CA

    Provide funds to construct water facilities for impoverished disadvantaged families

    $1,000
  19. Houston Food BankHouston, TX

    Provide funds for food for children, families, and senions in southeast texas who face hunger

    $1,000
  20. Moving Waters IncCypress, TX

    Provide funds to improve the quality of life for homeless people by providing showers, via a mobile shower service, hygiene products, & essential clothing

    $1,000
  21. Individual

    Payment for housing

    $1,000
  22. Society of St Vincent de Paul - AndoverAndover, KS

    Provide funds to serve the poor and needy

    $1,000
  23. Individual

    Payment for food and housing

    $800
  24. Individual

    Payments for housing

    $617
  25. Individual

    Payment for utilities

    $225
  26. Individual

    Payment for food

    $82

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Religion2 grants $15,00065% of the total
  2. Human services2 grants $6,00026% of the total
  3. Health1 grant $1,0004% of the total
  4. International aid1 grant $1,0004% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Florida1 grant $81,000
  2. Texas4 grants $13,000
  3. Oklahoma2 grants $10,000
  4. Virginia1 grant $10,000
  5. North Carolina1 grant $5,000
  6. California1 grant $1,000
  7. Kansas1 grant $1,000

Officers, directors and trustees

2 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Cynthia L RuderPRESIDENT Hours 4.8Pay $0
  • Terrence L RuderSECRETARY/TREASURER Hours 9Pay $0

The return

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