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Humanities Texas

The mission of HUMANITIES TEXAS is educational excellence.

$568k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.2MEducation$463kEnvironment$21kCommunity Improvement$20kHealth$15kPublic Benefit$15kRecreation & Sports$10kHuman Services$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 29 grants below total $288,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $568,126 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $279,626 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 $10k13 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $198k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER$20,000
CITY OF SAN ANTONIO$15,000
SAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS$15,000
RANCHING HERITAGE ASSOCIATION$15,000
CITY OF EL PASO$15,000
SAN JACINTO MUSEUM AND BATTLEFIELD ASSOCIATION$15,000
EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT$12,000
AMARILLO SYMPHONY$11,250
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON$10,000
REMEMBERING BLACK DALLAS$10,000
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON$10,000
HOUSTON FREEDMEN'S TOWN CONSERVANCY$10,000
TEXAS MARITIME MUSEUM ASSOCIATION$10,000
ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER$10,000
ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP OF FREEDMEN'S: $8k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$918k · 35 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
99

Total granted

$918k
$941k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+36%

Still filing today

74%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • WM
    Witte Museum
    3× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +370%
  • TB
    Texas Book Festival
    3× · 2019–2021 · $47k · revenue +82%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
    4× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • DH
    Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • ST
    SOUTH TEXAS INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +173%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWESTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +36%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Texas Flying Legends Museum
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2
Llano County Historical Society Inc

historic preservation and education

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3
Art Museum of Southeast Texas

Through unique collections, exhibitions, public programs and outreach in the visual arts, the mission of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas is to provide education, inspiration and creative visions throughout Southeast Texas.

Arts & Culture
4
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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5
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
Brenham Heritage Museum

Foster the history, art, culture, & humanities of the brenham-washington county, tx region.

Arts & Culture
7
The Sherman Museum

Preservation and education of history and historical items of interest for the citizens and visitors of sherman, tx.

Arts & Culture
8
The Museum of Western Art

The Museum of Western Art in the Texas Hill Country is dedicated to excellence in the collection, preservation and display of Western art.

Arts & Culture
9
Heart of Texas Historical Muse

To provide the general public with the rich heart of texas heritage

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10
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…

Arts & Culture
11
Houston Museum of African American Culture

To collect, explore, collect and interpret and exhibit the material and intellectual culture in Houston, the Southwest and African Diaspora for current and future generations for all people.

Arts & Culture
12
Brazoria County Historical Museum

Preserve the history of brazoria county, texas.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Western Art Foundation Briscoe Western Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is Ellis County African American Hall. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%5%<5yr16%11%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr10%28%35–55yr12%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%5%<5yr16%10%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr10%29%35–55yr12%31%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%4/154
the rest of the field
16%
12,824/79,097

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

119 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. 119 of the 154 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/119
Grantees still filing
78/119
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Texas Folklife Resources — $57,000 · Arts & CultureWitte Museum — $49,900 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $43,750 · Arts & Culture+79 more — $1,071,595 · Arts & Culture+79 moreUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS — $48,995 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY — $32,852 · OtherTEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY — $24,779 · OtherBRANIFF AIRWAYS FOUNDATION — $22,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY — $21,500 · Other+48 more — $473,356 · Other+48 moreAUSTIN PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationTLL TEMPLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY & ARCHIVES — $15,000 · EducationTrinity University — $11,500 · EducationBONHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD — $10,000 · EducationUniversity of the Incarnate Word — $10,000 · EducationSchreiner University — $8,800 · EducationINSIDE LITERATURE — $8,000 · EducationOAK CLIFF RECORDS LIBRARY — $7,950 · EducationRutherford B H Yates Museum Inc — $7,500 · EducationArchaeological Institute of America-Houston Society — $7,500 · EducationYOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON — $6,500 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $6,000 · EducationBUILDINGCOMMUNITYWORKSHOP — $5,100 · EducationTexas Book Festival — $47,000 · Recreation & SportsEmancipation Park Conservancy — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsHouston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc — $20,000 · Community ImprovementWATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY — $10,000 · Community ImprovementSAN ELIZARIO GENEALOGY & HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 · HealthHEADWATERS AT THE COMAL — $13,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$1,222,245Other$623,482Education$118,850Recreation & Sports$57,000Community Improvement$30,000Health$15,000Environment$13,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTexas Folklife Resources — $57,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetWitte Museum — $49,900 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTexas Book Festival — $47,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $43,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WESTERN ART FOUNDATION BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM — $40,088 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON — $38,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAN ANTONIO AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY ARCHIVE AND MUSEUM — $33,800 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetBRYAN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE — $33,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDR PEPPER MUSEUM AND FREE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSan Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association — $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $27,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPUERTO RICAN FOLKLORIC DANCE INC — $25,235 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGemini Series Inc — $23,754 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMEXIC-ARTE MUSEUM — $23,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHarrison County Historical Society — $21,410 over 2y, 14% of budgetHouston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC — $18,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTOM LEA INSTITUTE — $17,535 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY — $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS — $16,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST — $16,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEL PROGRESO LIBRARY — $16,072 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNational Center for Childrens Illustrated Literat — $16,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION — $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CONSERVATION SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $15,420 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetRanching Heritage Association — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAUSTIN PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetURBAN -15 GROUP — $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTLL TEMPLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY & ARCHIVES — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetScurry County Museum Association Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetARMSTRONG COUNTY MUSEUM — $15,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetPRESERVATION DALLAS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE CITY OF SOCORRO COMMUNITY INITIATIVE — $13,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetHEADWATERS AT THE COMAL — $13,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGRACE MUSEUM INC — $12,550 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Texas State Historical Association — $12,350 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc — $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER — $11,700 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTrinity University — $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science — $11,263 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTexas Archive of the Moving Image — $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Summerlee Foundat…The Brown Foundation …Union Pacific Foundat…Texas Historical Foun…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Houston Arts AllianceGreater Austin Perfor…Greater Houston Commu…Still Water FoundationHouston Endowment IncThe Moody FoundationSan Antonio Area Foun…
The Summerlee FoundationTX66.2× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Summerlee Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Union Pacific Foundation · Texas Historical Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Houston Arts Alliance · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Still Water Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Moody Foundation · San Antonio Area 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 Humanities Texas 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 154 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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