How much does Arts Council of Brazos Valley give?

Arts Council of Brazos Valley reported 9 itemized grants totaling $387,263, out of $408,683 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Arts Council of Brazos Valley fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (85%), Public Benefit (10%), Science & Tech (4%).

Who are Arts Council of Brazos Valley's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The George and Barbara Bush Foundation ($822k), Brazos Valley Symphony Society ($611k), Museum of the American Gi Inc ($311k).

Does Arts Council of Brazos Valley fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Arts Council of Brazos Valley?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gilbert & Thyra Plass Arts Foundation, Winkler Nina Astin Trust, Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust.

Where is Arts Council of Brazos Valley based?

Arts Council of Brazos Valley is based in TX.

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Texas · 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. Strive to foster an appreciation of the involvement in the arts and to encourage and support artists and art organizations as they work to increase the excellence of the inique artistic products…

$409k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 9
Itemized grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $387k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $27,820
Largest grant, FY2025: $135,300
Organizations funded a year: 10 to 22; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $2.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Arts Council of Brazos Valley funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	9	$387k	0%
FY2024	10	$388k	0%
FY2023	12	$412k	8%
FY2022	17	$450k	12%
FY2021	19	$414k	26%
FY2020	18	$442k	0%
FY2019	22	$460k	9%
FY2018	20	$449k	25%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.2MPublic Benefit$376kScience & Tech$150kRecreation & Sports$37kCommunity Improvement$24k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The George and Barbara Bush Foundation	$822,103	9	2%
Brazos Valley Symphony Society	$610,732	9	13%
Museum of the American Gi Inc	$310,720	9	14%
The Theatre Company of Bcs	$270,500	7	26%
Texas A&M University	$230,000	5	n/a
Ballet Brazos	$161,376	7	84%
Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History	$155,200	7	7%
Brazos Valley Chorale	$129,684	9	22%
Navasota Theatre Alliance	$107,165	9	21%
Friends of Chamber Music	$105,630	9	21%

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All grantees of Arts Council of Brazos Valley by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The George and Barbara Bush Foundation	$822,103	9	2%
Brazos Valley Symphony Society	$610,732	9	13%
Museum of the American Gi Inc	$310,720	9	14%
The Theatre Company of Bcs	$270,500	7	26%
Texas A&M University	$230,000	5	n/a
Ballet Brazos	$161,376	7	84%
Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History	$155,200	7	7%
Brazos Valley Chorale	$129,684	9	22%
Navasota Theatre Alliance	$107,165	9	21%
Friends of Chamber Music	$105,630	9	21%
Stagecenter Inc	$105,158	6	28%
Childrens Museum of the Brazos Valley	$104,000	5	11%
Brazos Valley Worldfest	$86,149	4	44%
Washington on the Brazos Historical Foundation	$52,974	7	5%
Mic Check	$32,308	3	n/a
Brazos Educational Radio	$25,740	5	10%
Fiestas Patrias Mexicanas of Bryan-College Station Texas	$24,000	2	n/a
Grimes County Chamber of Commerce	$18,360	3	4%
African American National Heritage Society	$13,000	1	14%
Brazos Valley Art League Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Brazos Bluebonnet Quilt Guild	$2,920	1	4%
Unity Theatre Co	$1,861	1	0%
Brenham Childrens Chorus Inc	$1,823	1	2%
Troupe Over the Hill	$1,803	1	1%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($421k), not named here.

Arts Council of Brazos Valley supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

The Gilbert & Thyra Plass Arts FoundationTX15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Arts Council of Brazos Valley

How much does Arts Council of Brazos Valley give?: Arts Council of Brazos Valley reported 9 itemized grants totaling $387,263, out of $408,683 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Arts Council of Brazos Valley fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (85%), Public Benefit (10%), Science & Tech (4%).
Who are Arts Council of Brazos Valley's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The George and Barbara Bush Foundation ($822k), Brazos Valley Symphony Society ($611k), Museum of the American Gi Inc ($311k).
Does Arts Council of Brazos Valley fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Arts Council of Brazos Valley?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gilbert & Thyra Plass Arts Foundation, Winkler Nina Astin Trust, Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust.
Where is Arts Council of Brazos Valley based?: Arts Council of Brazos Valley is based in TX.