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Arts Council of Midland

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

$122k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$29k
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.

Arts & Culture$748kHealth$8k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Basin PBS$4,500
Midland Palette Club Art Center$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
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIDLAND COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $7k → 12%Midland Community Theatre: $22k → 14%Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin: $2k → 16%LIVE ON STAGE: $6k → 12%MIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE: $20k → 14%Permin Basin Gifts of Hope Inc: $2k → 12%MIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE: $20k → 14%Thriving United: $1k → 12%MIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE: $20k → 14%MIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE: $18k → 14%MIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE: $17k → 14%MIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE: $15k → 14%PERMIAN BASIN OPERA: $10k → 14%MIDLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN ROOT: $8k → 14%MIDLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN ROOT: $7k → 14%Midland Community Theatre: $7k → 14%MARC INC: $5k → 14%Midland Palette Club Art Center: $5k → 14%Midland Palette Club Art Center: $4k → 14%Keep Midland Beautiful: $3k → 14%Recording Library of West Texas: $3k → 14%MARC Inc dba Spectrum of Solutions: $1k → 14%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 55% of Arts Council of Midland’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 98%.

Arts Council of Midlandlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$727k · 13 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$727k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+16%

Still filing today

69%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • MF
    MIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLET
    8× · 2017–2024 · $149k · revenue +106%
  • MC
    MIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $139k · revenue +48%
  • MS
    Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • MC
    Midland County Public Library Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -15%
  • PB
    PERMIAN BASIN BOOKIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • KM
    KEEP MIDLAND BEAUTIFUL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +16%
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
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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2
North East Texas Symphony Assc

A symphony orchestra for community

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3
American Baroque Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Midland Center for the Arts Inc

To entertain, educate and inspire a diverse and expanding regional audiences in the arts, sciences and humanities.

Arts & Culture
5
The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund
Arts & Culture
6
Denison Arts Council

To promote tourism awareness in the city of denison, texas.

Human Services
7
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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9
Arts Council of Midland

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

Arts & Culture
10
Mesquite Arts Council Inc

The Mission of The Mesquite Arts Center is to make visual and performing arts available to all the communities of North Texas; to become a creative force and an educational resource for our regional residents; and to deliver the economic…

Arts & Culture
11
Festival of Texas Fiddling

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Metropolitan Winds

Making music matter, the Metropolitan Winds seeks to promote the Arts through regular performances of great literature for the wind band. These performances help to enrich, educate, and entertain the public, while allowing musicians from…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midland Community Theatre Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLET: $148,600 · Arts & CultureMIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLETMIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $139,000 · Arts & CultureMIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INCMidland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc: $129,700 · Arts & CultureMidland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale IncHISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER OF MIDLAND: $88,400 · Arts & CultureHISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER OF MIDLANDMidland Community Concert Association: $40,150 · Arts & CultureMidland Community Concert AssociationPERMIAN BASIN OPERA: $23,000 · Arts & CultureMIDLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN ROOTS HISTORICAL-CULTURAL ARTS COUNCIL: $21,250 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $11,500 · Arts & CultureWAGNER NOEL PERFORMING ARTS C: $49,300 · OtherWAGNER NOEL PERFORMIN…The West Texas Jazz Society Inc: $33,300 · OtherThe West Texas Jazz S…MIDLAND ARTS ASSOCIATION: $29,500 · OtherMIDLAND ARTS ASSOCIAT…MIDLAND PALETTE CLUB ART CENTER: $8,000 · OtherMIDLAND PALETTE CLUB …MARC INC: $6,700 · OtherMIDLAND QUILTERS GUILD: $6,000 · OtherPERMIAN BASIN BOOKIES INC: $5,800 · Other+1 more: $2,000 · OtherMidland County Public Library Foundation: $6,500 · EducationRECORDING LIBRARY OF WEST TEXAS: $2,500 · EducationKEEP MIDLAND BEAUTIFUL INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentTHRIVING UNITED INC: $1,320 · Health
Arts & Culture$601,600Other$140,600Education$9,000Environment$3,000Health$1,320

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

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
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.

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 Foundati…Fmh FoundationRea Charitable TrustWayne & Jo Ann Moore …Permian Basin Area Fo…Bryant Family Foundat…Pevehouse Family Foun…Paul and Katherine Mo…Helen Greathouse Char…Beal FoundationThe Henry FoundationThe Prairie Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arts Council of Midland funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts Council of Midland. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 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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