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Miller Theatre Advisory Board Inc

MTAB acts as a steward of public and private funds to provide professional-caliber performances, free to the public, at Miller Outdoor Theatre for the cultural enrichment of Houston's diverse communities and visitors to the city.

$743k
Granted FY2023
35
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$110k
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 2023.

Arts & Culture$5.6MHealth$23kInternational$8k
02FY2023 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k18 grants · $151k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $227k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $365k
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Houston Symphony$110,000
Theatre Under the Stars$95,000
Houston Grand Opera$80,000
Houston Ballet$80,000
Bacement Foundation for the Arts$45,000
Festival Chicano$40,000
University of Houston$40,000
Houston Latin American Philharmonic$12,000
Dance of Asian America$10,000
Aperio$10,000
Silambam Houston$10,000
Texas Folklife Resources$10,000
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra$10,000
Performing Arts Houston$10,000
Da Camera Society of Texas$10,000
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Texas Folklife Resources: $21k → 10%Bacement Fdn for the Arts: $62k → 16%Bacement Fdn for the Arts: $62k → 16%Bacement Foundation for the Arts: $45k → 16%University of Houston: $40k → 16%University of Houston: $40k → 16%Bacement Foundation for the Arts: $40k → 16%Mexican Institute of Hou: $34k → 16%Mexican Institute: $34k → 16%AD Players: $21k → 16%Houston Ballet: $110k → 16%Houston Ballet: $110k → 16%Houston Ballet: $110k → 16%Dance of Asian America: $35k → 16%Dance of Asian America: $35k → 16%Dance of Asian America: $35k → 16%HITS Theatre: $82k → 16%HITS Theatre: $82k → 16%HITS Theatre: $82k → 16%HITS Theatre: $41k → 16%Theatre Under the Stars: $190k → 16%Theatre Under the Stars: $190k → 16%Theatre Under the Stars: $190k → 16%Houston Symphony: $180k → 16%Houston Symphony: $180k → 16%Houston Symphony: $180k → 16%Houston Grand Opera: $137k → 16%Houston Grand Opera: $137k → 16%Houston Grand Opera: $137k → 16%Houston Symphony: $110k → 16%Theatre Under the Stars: $95k → 16%Houston Ballet: $80k → 16%Houston Grand Opera: $80k → 16%Houston Symphony: $80k → 16%Houston Ballet: $65k → 16%Houston Grand Opera: $65k → 16%Houston Symphony: $40k → 16%Houston Grand Opera: $40k → 16%Houston Ballet: $40k → 16%TUTS Humphreys School: $27k → 16%TUTS Humphreys School: $27k → 16%TUTS Humphreys School: $27k → 16%Houston Shakespeare Fest: $100k → 16%Houston Shakespeare Fest: $95k → 16%Houston Shakespeare Fest: $95k → 16%Institute of Hispanic Culture: $25k → 16%Institute of Hispanic Culture: $25k → 16%Institute of Hispanic Culture: $25k → 16%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 41 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
7

Total granted

$5.6M
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-14%

Still filing today

90%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HS
    Houston Symphony Society
    6× · 2017–2023 · $790k · revenue +43%
  • HG
    Houston Grand Opera Association Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $647k · revenue +28%
  • HB
    Houston Ballet Foundation
    5× · 2017–2023 · $515k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • DH
    DANCE HOUSTON
    one grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue -39%
  • HI
    Houston Independent Sch Dist
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • JS
    JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HOUSTONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +119%
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
Harmonia Stellarum Houston

Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…

Arts & Culture
2
Hopera

Hopera's mission is to produce live musical performances in unique Houston Area spaces that focus on and empower Houston Area artists. Our Pint-Sized Performance concert series empowers local musicians to create original programs that are…

Arts & Culture
3
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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4
Operativo Houston

Providing paid opportunities for Houston based singers.

Arts & Culture
5
Classical Arts Society of Houston

Formed in 1993, the Classical Arts Society of Houston is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and maintaining the rich heritage of the classical performing arts of India. In particular, the organization presents South Indian…

Arts & Culture
6
Kinetic Ensemble

To amplify diverse, under-performed, and newly composed classical music to communities in and beyond Houston through intensely collaborative chamber and orchestral performances.

Arts & Culture
7
Allen Parkway Arts Center Inc

APAC is a supporting organization to Stages, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization producing live theater.

Arts & Culture
8
World Voices Houston

The mission of International Voiches Houston is to create global harmony by celebrating and giving voice to human difference. More specifically, it is to build cultural bridges across Houston's diverse population by exploring and…

Arts & Culture
9
Houston Youth Symphony

The mission of Houston Youth Symphony (HYS) is to nurture personal growth through exceptional music education. HYS envisions a world where exceptional music education is accessible to all.

Arts & Culture
10
Houston Choral Society

The Houston Choral Society is a professional quality civic chorus dedicated to performing great choral music to enrich the soul and advance the choral arts to Houston audiences and beyond.

Arts & Culture
11
Houston Brass Band

The Houston Brass Band has established itself as one of the premier brass groups in Houston, Texas. Our mission is to: Broadly share the unique British brass band style and sound, Provide our audience with inspiring, engaging, and…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Performing Arts Houston; the most unlike its peers is Moksh Community Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 50 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
30/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Houston Symphony Society: $790,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Symphony SocietyTheatre Under the Stars Inc: $746,000 · Arts & CultureTheatre Under the Stars IncHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $647,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Grand Opera Association IncHouston Ballet Foundation: $515,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Ballet FoundationHITS Theatre: $307,000 · Arts & CultureHITS TheatreFESTIVAL CHICANO INC: $266,000 · Arts & CultureFESTIVAL CHICANO INC+28 more: $1,240,250 · Arts & Culture+28 moreUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $382,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HO…Bacement Fdn for the Arts: $209,000 · OtherBacement Fdn for…Foundation for Modern Music: $87,500 · OtherFoundation for M…Indian Performing Arts: $40,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF HOUSTON: $36,000 · Other+5 more: $61,750 · Other+5 moreDance of Asian America: $180,000 · Civil RightsHouston Metropolitan Dance Center Inc: $84,000 · EducationYOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON: $27,400 · EducationFUNDACION LATINOAMERICANA DE ACCION SOCIAL INC: $23,000 · HealthJAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HOUSTON: $8,000 · InternationalHOUSTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $7,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$4,511,250Other$816,750Civil Rights$180,000Education$111,400Health$23,000International$8,000Youth Development$7,000

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 budgetHouston Symphony Society: $790,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTheatre Under the Stars Inc: $746,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $647,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHouston Ballet Foundation: $515,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHITS Theatre: $307,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetFESTIVAL CHICANO INC: $266,000 over 6y, 78% of budgetDance of Asian America: $180,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetDiaz Music Institute: $93,500 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetINSTITUTE OF HISPANIC CULTURE: $93,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetTexas Folklife Resources: $92,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetFoundation for Modern Music: $87,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetHouston Metropolitan Dance Center Inc: $84,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetExpress Childrens Theatre Express Childrens Theatre: $80,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetMercury Chamber Orchestra Inc: $69,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetINDIAN PERFORMING ARTS SAMSKRITI: $63,500 over 6y, 21% of budgetRiver Oaks Chamber Orchestra: $63,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetStages: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR: $53,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetA D Players: $49,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER: $47,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS MEDICAL CENTER ORCHESTRA: $47,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON: $46,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDa Camera Society of Texas: $39,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAPERIO: $36,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF HOUSTON: $36,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetMOKSH COMMUNITY ARTS INC: $35,000 over 4y, 63% of budgetDANCE HOUSTON: $32,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetSILAMBAM HOUSTON: $31,250 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTHE HOUSTON JAZZ COLLECTIVE: $31,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetAPOLLO CHAMBER PLAYERS: $23,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFUNDACION LATINOAMERICANA DE ACCION SOCIAL INC: $23,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Latin American Philharmonic: $22,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetWINDSYNC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetOpen Dance Project Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHouston Young Artists' Concert: $13,400 over 2y, 24% of budgetJAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HOUSTON: $8,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPRELUDE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJazz Houston: $8,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHOUSTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $7,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHSPVA Friends: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWildfish Theatre Company: $6,700 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
  • Who funds Theatre Under the Stars Inc ↗
  • Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Houston Ballet Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HITS Theatre ↗
  • Who funds FESTIVAL CHICANO INC ↗
  • Who funds Dance of Asian America ↗
  • Who funds Diaz Music Institute ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF HISPANIC CULTURE ↗
  • Who funds Texas Folklife Resources ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Modern Music ↗
  • Who funds Houston Metropolitan Dance Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Express Childrens Theatre Express Childrens Theatre ↗
  • Who funds Mercury Chamber Orchestra Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN PERFORMING ARTS SAMSKRITI ↗
  • Who funds River Oaks Chamber Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds Stages ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR ↗
  • Who funds A D Players ↗
  • Who funds ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds Da Camera Society of Texas ↗
  • Who funds APERIO ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds MOKSH COMMUNITY ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds DANCE HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds SILAMBAM HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds THE HOUSTON JAZZ COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds APOLLO CHAMBER PLAYERS ↗
  • Who funds FUNDACION LATINOAMERICANA DE ACCION SOCIAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Latin American Philharmonic ↗
  • Who funds WINDSYNC ↗
  • Who funds Open Dance Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FESTIVAL FOR THE ARTS ↗

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.

Houston Arts AllianceThe Brown Foundation …The Cullen Trust for …Houston Endowment IncAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Shell USA Company Fou…The Powell FoundationThe Humphreys Foundat…Greater Houston Commu…Arts Connect HoustonThe Wortham Foundatio…Strake Foundation
Houston Arts AllianceTX66.8× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Houston Arts Alliance · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts · Houston Endowment Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Powell Foundation · The Humphreys Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Arts Connect Houston · The Wortham Foundation Inc · Strake 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 Miller Theatre Advisory Board Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Miller Theatre Advisory Board Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 50 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $888k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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