· Private foundation
Rea Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $148k
- $10k–50k152 grants · $2.8M
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDLAND ISD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $335,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $170,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST | $150,000 |
| ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $130,000 |
| MIDLAND-ODESSA SYMPHONY AND CHORALE INC | $125,000 |
| SOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| SCHREINER UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| ELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| MIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLET | $85,000 |
| MIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC | $80,000 |
| MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| HISPANIC CULTURE CENTER OF MIDLAND | $75,000 |
| MIDLAND COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND | $70,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $571k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
241 repeat relationships: 174 still active in FY2025, 67 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $582k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MOMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST5× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +36% · 29% of their budget
- MIMIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +207%
- ACARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND5× · 2020–2025 · $650k · revenue +46% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- SRSTANDING ROOM ONLYone grant, 2023 · $350k
- SLSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INCone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
- LSLUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +31%
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.
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.
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…
TexARTS is an arts education and performance destination that builds character, professionalism, and careers. Its mission is to cultivate a thriving arts community by exposing all people to the visual and performing arts. TexARTS prepares…
To shape the future of classical music by energizing, modernizing, and personalizing the concert experience.
Founded in 1993, American Festival for the Arts (AFA) provides high quality community-based music education programs and performance opportunities designed primarily for youth and, through its concert series and outreach, seeks to broaden…
Increase community involvement to advance music and art through education events and our TechNotes curriculum, group collaborations, film and instrument competitions, performance jobs, and general public concerts
To share the experience of chamber music through live performance and community engagement
The mission of HGO is to enrich our diverse community through the art of opera. We will do so by creating, curating, exploring, and producing outstanding experiences centered around the human voice.(Continued on Schedule O)
The mission of the texarkana symphony orchestra, inc. is to pursue, for all, the transformative power of symphonic music through excellence in live permormance and education.
The Austin Chamber Music Center creates chamber music experiences that connect, educate, and inspire our community.
To create theater that challenges its audience to think and its artists to grow. We accomplish this by presenting an articulate and compelling product in an intimate setting, creating employment for Houston-based artists, and memorable…
The mission of the Tucson Symphony is to build and enrich community through the experience of live music of the highest quality.
How this is measured
339 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. 339 of the 394 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND ↗
- Who funds ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc ↗
- Who funds MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER OF MIDLAND ↗
- Who funds ELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLET ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN OPERA ↗
- Who funds Schreiner University ↗
- Who funds CASSATT IN THE BASIN ↗
- Who funds ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND TEXAS ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET LUBBOCK ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Lubbock Community Theatre ↗
- Who funds LEVELLAND WALLACE THEATER ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Midland County Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARFA PUBLIC RADIO CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Worth Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The West Texas Jazz Society Inc ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Hillcrest School Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Fmh Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Paul and Katherine Morrow Family Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Beal Foundation · Yarborough Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rea Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rea Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Gaylord Hospital Inc: 6% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc: 1% of income from government
- Friends of Chamber Music: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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