· Public charity
Arts Council of Midland
Enriching lives with the arts through community wide advocacy, education, outreach, and promotion.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hispanic Cultural Center of Midland | $29,000 |
| Midland Community Theatre | $21,750 |
| Midland Odessa Symphony & Chorale | $15,000 |
| Midland Festival Ballet | $15,000 |
| Permian Basin Opera | $9,500 |
| West Texas Jazz Society | $7,500 |
| Midland Quilters Guild | $6,000 |
| Midland Palette Club Art Center | $4,500 |
| Basin PBS | $4,500 |
| Recording Library of West Texas | $2,500 |
| Permin Basin Gifts of Hope Inc | $2,000 |
| Midland Arts Association | $2,000 |
| Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin | $1,500 |
| Thriving United | $1,320 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 55% of Arts Council of Midland’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 98% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +12% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- MFMIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLET8× · 2017–2024 · $149k · revenue +106%
- MCMIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $139k · revenue +48%
- MSMidland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- MCMidland County Public Library Foundationone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -15%
- PBPERMIAN BASIN BOOKIES INCone grant, 2020 · $6k
- KMKEEP MIDLAND BEAUTIFUL INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -8%
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.
A symphony orchestra for community
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Enriching lives with the arts through community wide advocacy, education, outreach, and promotion.
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The Festival of Texas Fiddling is dedicated to the preservation, presentation, and performance, and education about of all styles of fiddling and fiddle-associated music played historically and currently in the State of Texas.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midland Community Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is The West Texas Jazz Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 21 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 MIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLET ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER OF MIDLAND ↗
- Who funds Midland Community Concert Association ↗
- Who funds The West Texas Jazz Society Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN OPERA ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN ROOTS HISTORICAL-CULTURAL ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MARC INC ↗
- Who funds Midland County Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds KEEP MIDLAND BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds RECORDING LIBRARY OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
- Who funds THRIVING UNITED INC ↗
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: 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
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 Midland 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.