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Art Colony Association Inc

Art Colony Association provides art experiences and education for the greater Houston community by bringing diverse artists to urban Bayou City Art Festivals and supporting local non-profit organizations.

$88k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$288kArts & Culture$142kHealth$40kAnimals$29kFood & Nutrition$6k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $69,066, the rows itemized in this filing. The $88,091 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,025 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
$11,498
Median grant
1
States reached
$512k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Houston Civic Events Inc$23,533
Memorial Park Conservancy$12,035
City of Houston - Parks & Rec Dept$11,498
Fresh Arts$8,000
Museum of Fine Arts Houston$7,500
Katy ARTreach$6,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Katy ARTreach: $7k → 8%City of Houston-Parks & Rec Dept: $12k → 16%Katy ARTreach: $6k → 8%City of Houston: $9k → 16%Katy ARTreach: $6k → 8%City of Houston: $8k → 16%City of Houston: $7k → 16%The Women's Fund for Health Education & Research: $6k → 16%The Women's Fund for Health Education & Research: $6k → 16%Houston Civic Events Inc: $29k → 16%Houston Civic Events Inc: $24k → 16%Houston Civic Events Inc: $22k → 16%Houston Civic Events: $21k → 16%Houston Civic Events: $18k → 16%Houston Civic Events: $18k → 16%City of Houston - Parks & Rec Dept: $12k → 16%Houston Civic Events: $12k → 16%City of Houston - Parks & Rec Dept: $11k → 16%City of Houston - Parks & Rec Dept: $10k → 16%Memorial Park Conservancy: $17k → 16%Memorial Park Conservancy: $13k → 16%Memorial Park Conservancy: $12k → 16%Memorial Park Conservancy: $12k → 16%Memorial Park Conservancy: $11k → 16%Fresh Arts: $9k → 16%Fresh Arts: $9k → 16%Give Us Paws: $10k → 16%Fresh Arts: $9k → 16%Give Us Paws: $10k → 16%Second Servings of Houston: $6k → 16%Memorial Park Conservancy: $9k → 16%Give Us Paws: $9k → 16%UH Clear Lake Art Gallery: $10k → 16%UH Clear Lake Art Gallery: $9k → 16%Orange Show Foundation: $6k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$493k · 12 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$493k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MP
    Memorial Park Conservancy Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +138%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
    5× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +96%
  • HP
    Houston Parks Board
    4× · 2017–2021 · $37k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • TO
    The Orange Show Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +10%
  • SS
    SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +7%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Houston Parks Board Foundation

The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.

Environment
2
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
3
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
4
Hermann Park Conservancy

Hermann Park Conservancy is a citizens organization dedicated to the stewardship and improvement of Hermann Park - today and for generations to come.

Environment
5
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.

Arts & Culture
6
Arts Connect Houston

Arts Connect Houston unites with the greater Houston community to ensure access to high-quality arts education in creative writing, dance, music, theater, and the visual arts for every student, beginning with Houston ISD.

Arts & Culture
7
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
8
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
9
Harmonia Stellarum Houston

Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…

Arts & Culture
10
Goal Park Foundation

The Goal Park Foundation was established with a primary vision to develop and maintain a linear park in East Downtown Houston by converting the Columbia Tap Rail Trail into a thriving linear park akin to the High Line in New York or the…

Recreation & Sports
11
Discovery Green Conservancy

See Schedule O Discovery Green's mission is to operate and guide the evolution of an uncommonly beautiful urban green space in the heart of Houston that serves as a village green for our city, a source of health and happiness for our…

Recreation & Sports
12
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Park Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is A Cause to Give Us Paws. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOUSTON CIVIC EVENTS INC: $143,816 · OtherHOUSTON CIVIC EVENTS INCFresh Arts Coalition: $41,000 · OtherFresh Arts CoalitionCity of Houston - Parks & Rec Dept: $33,727 · OtherCity of Houston - Parks & Rec DeptThe Arc of Harris County: $28,000 · OtherThe Arc of Harris CountyUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $19,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONTHE WOMEN'S FUND FOR HEALTH EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $12,000 · Other+1 more: $6,000 · OtherTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $42,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE…KATY ARTREACH: $18,000 · Arts & CultureKATY ARTREACHSpacetaker: $16,000 · Arts & CultureSpacetakerThe Orange Show Foundation: $6,000 · Arts & CultureThe Orange Show Fo…Memorial Park Conservancy Inc: $73,418 · EnvironmentMemorial Park Co…Houston Parks Board: $36,672 · PhilanthropyA Cause to Give Us Paws: $29,000 · Animals
Other$283,543Arts & Culture$82,000Environment$73,418Philanthropy$36,672Animals$29,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $73,418 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $36,672 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Arc of Harris County: $28,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetKATY ARTREACH: $18,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSpacetaker: $16,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S FUND FOR HEALTH EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $12,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Orange Show Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds Houston Parks Board ↗
  • Who funds A Cause to Give Us Paws ↗
  • Who funds The Arc of Harris County ↗
  • Who funds KATY ARTREACH ↗
  • Who funds Spacetaker ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S FUND FOR HEALTH EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds The Orange Show Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON ↗

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Houston Endowment IncHouston Arts AllianceNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX18.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Houston Arts Alliance · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Art Colony Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Art Colony Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 14 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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