· Public charity
Arts Council of Brazos Valley
To make the arts accessible to all citizens and visitors in the brazos valley through funding, promotion, advocacy, and partnership building.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $387,263 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $408,683 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,420 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| George Bush Presidential Lib | $135,300 |
| Brazos Valley Symphony | $80,000 |
| MSC Opas | $50,000 |
| Museum of the American GI | $38,850 |
| Ballet Brazos | $27,820 |
| Navasota Theatre Alliance | $20,663 |
| Friends of Chamber Music | $14,030 |
| Brazos Valley chorale | $14,000 |
| Navasota Grimes Co COC | $6,600 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $161k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TGTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $822k · revenue +44%
- BVBrazos Valley Symphony Society9× · 2017–2025 · $611k · revenue +31%
- MOMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN GI INC9× · 2017–2025 · $311k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- TATEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY (FORSYTH GALLERIES)one grant, 2018 · $14k
- AAAFRICAN AMERICAN NATIONAL HERITAGE SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -30%
- TITHIS IS WATER THEATREone grant, 2017 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To enhance the artistic environment of Johnson and Hood County, Texas and the surrounding area and provide opportunities for musicians in the area to perform.
The mission of Brazos Valley Troupe is to provide children's and youth theater and educational programs to the local community
The Texas Music Museum seeks to educate and inspire visitors as to the contributions of Texas Musicians, both well-known and little-recognized. Texas Music Museum pursues their goal by reseraching, collecting, and preserving material…
American baroque opera company operates in the state of texas for the primary purpose of furthering the appreciaton of music, particularly opera, for the general public. american baroque opera company performs select operas throughout the…
Educ & Entertain in the Performing Arts
Texas Comedies is a theatrical organization that brings artistic and educational works based on authentic events in Texas history to communities throughout the state with an emphasis on presenting underrepresented local history and…
To provide the general public with the rich heart of texas heritage
Production
To establish Ballet North Texas as an indispensable asset of the North Texas community through; exceptional performances of new, classical and historical masterpieces, excellence in dance training, distinguished community education and…
Inspired by the power of theater to educate and entertain Teatro Vivo produces and promotes theatrical works that showcase the Latinx experience and are accessible to diverse audiences particularly those historically underserved by the…
Foster the history, art, culture, & humanities of the brenham-washington county, tx region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brazos Valley Chorale and the most unlike its peers is Troupe Over the Hill. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brazos Valley Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN GI INC ↗
- Who funds THE THEATRE COMPANY OF BCS ↗
- Who funds BALLET BRAZOS ↗
- Who funds Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds Brazos Valley Chorale ↗
- Who funds NAVASOTA THEATRE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds STAGECENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Museum of the Brazos Valley ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY WORLDFEST ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS EDUCATIONAL RADIO ↗
- Who funds FIESTAS PATRIAS MEXICANAS OF BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION TEXAS ↗
- Who funds GRIMES COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN NATIONAL HERITAGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS BLUEBONNET QUILT GUILD ↗
- Who funds UNITY THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds BRENHAM CHILDRENS CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds TROUPE OVER THE HILL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Gilbert & Thyra Plass Arts Foundation · Winkler Nina Astin Trust · Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust · Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust · Rea Charitable Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arts Council of Brazos Valley funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.