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Arts Council of Midland

Enriching lives with the arts through community wide advocacy, education, outreach, and promotion.

$122k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$29,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Arts Council of Midland funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$122k36%
FY202312$95k25%
FY20226$89k0%
FY20217$75k14%
FY20209$114k11%
FY20197$87k14%
FY20187$80k29%
FY20178$94kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$748kHealth$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Arts Council of Midland by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Midland Festival Ballet$148,60084%
Midland Community Theatre Inc$139,00081%
Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc$129,70082%
Hispanic Cultural Center of Midland$88,40078%
Wagner Noel Performing Arts C$49,3004n/a
Midland Community Concert Association$40,150517%
The West Texas Jazz Society Inc$33,30057%
Midland Arts Association$29,50055%
Permian Basin Opera$23,000318%
Midland African American Roots Historical-Cultural Arts Council$21,25036%
Permian Basin Public Telecommunications Inc$10,00020%
Midland Palette Club Art Center$8,0002n/a
Marc Inc$6,70020%
Midland County Public Library Foundation$6,50011%
Midland Quilters Guild$6,0001n/a
Permian Basin Bookies Inc$5,8001n/a
Keep Midland Beautiful Inc$3,00011%
Recording Library of West Texas$2,50011%
Permin Basin Gifts of Hope Inc$2,0001n/a
Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin$1,50010%
Thriving United Inc$1,32010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Arts Council of Midland supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMidland Festival Ballet: $148,600 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetMidland Community Theatre Inc: $139,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetMidland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc: $129,700 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetHispanic Cultural Center of Midland: $88,400 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetMidland Community Concert Association: $40,150 over 5y, 17% of budgetThe West Texas Jazz Society Inc: $33,300 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetMidland Arts Association: $29,500 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetPermian Basin Opera: $23,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetMidland African American Roots Historical-Cultural Arts Council: $21,250 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetPermian Basin Public Telecommunications Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMarc Inc: $6,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMidland County Public Library Foundation: $6,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKeep Midland Beautiful Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRecording Library of West Texas: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEllen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThriving United Inc: $1,320 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 16.

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.

Abell-Hanger FoundationTX28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Fmh Foundation · Rea Charitable Trust · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Paul and Katherine Morrow Family Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Beal Foundation · The Henry Foundation · The Prairie 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.

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About Arts Council of Midland

How much does Arts Council of Midland give?
Arts Council of Midland reported 14 grants totaling $122,070 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Arts Council of Midland fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (99%), Health (1%).
Who are Arts Council of Midland's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Midland Festival Ballet ($149k), Midland Community Theatre Inc ($139k), Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc ($130k).
Does Arts Council of Midland fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Arts Council of Midland?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Abell-Hanger Foundation, Fmh Foundation, Rea Charitable Trust.
Where is Arts Council of Midland based?
Arts Council of Midland is based in TX.

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 21 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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