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Texas Historical Foundation

Preservation of texas history and artifacts.

$254k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
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 FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$618kCommunity Improvement$35kEducation$27kFood & Nutrition$8kHousing & Shelter$5kHuman Services$5kPhilanthropy$5kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $202,630 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $253,982 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $51,352 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 $10k23 grants · $178k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS ARCHIVE OF THE MOVING IMAGE$25,000
KOVNO COMMUNICATIONS INC OBO LIZ CARPENTER FILM PARTNERS$8,000
MIDLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY$8,000
FRIENDS OF THE TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION$8,000
THE CAVALLA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION DBA GALVESTON NAVAL MUSEUM$8,000
TOM LEA INSTITUTE$8,000
TEXAS HERITAGE PROJECT OF AITSCM$8,000
THE WILLIAMSON MUSEUM OBO THE STONES ARE SPEAKING$8,000
SCHREINER UNIVERSITY DBA THE TEXAS CENTER AT SCHREINER UNIVERITY$8,000
RANCHO ALEGRE RADIO DBA RANCHO ALEGRE$8,000
ARCHER COUNTY MUSEUM AND ARTS CENTER$8,000
GONZALES MAIN STREET INC$8,000
DOCUMENTARY ARTS INC$8,000
AUSTIN FILM SOCIETY OBO SUGARLOAF PICTURES LLC$8,000
MUSEUM OF THE WEST TEXAS FRONTIER$8,000
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 (FY25–25, $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%TEXAS HERITAGE PROJECT OF AITSCM: $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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 13% of Texas Historical Foundation’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 97% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Texas Historical Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$180k · 11 repeat orgs$528k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
30

Total granted

$180k
$364k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+32%

Still filing today

82%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k 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 & SportsHuman ServicesSocial ScienceOther

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

  • BE
    BRYAN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE
    4× · 2018–2021 · $20k · revenue +67%
  • TT
    The Texas State Historical Association
    3× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +19%
  • RB
    Rutherford B H Yates Museum Inc
    2× · 2019–2024 · $16k · revenue +312%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE WHEELOCK SCHOOL HOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • HA
    HOUSTON ARTS & MEDIA
    one grant, 2017 · $43k
  • FH
    Flower Hill Center
    one grant, 2024 · $30k

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
The Museum of North Texas History

To collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history of the North Texas Area to inspire an interest in the past for the education and enrichment of people of all ages.

Arts & Culture
2
Texas Flying Legends Museum
—
3
Llano County Historical Society Inc

historic preservation and education

—
4
The Sherman Museum

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

Arts & Culture
5
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
—
6
Jefferson Historical Society & Museum

Preserve history and heritage of jefferson texas and the operation of the jefferson museum

—
7
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association

To collect and preserve significant historical materials that relate to the early history and culture of Texas and to promote the study of the history of Texas through exhibits, publications, and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
9
Wilson County Historical Society

The wilson county historical society was formed by local historians to research and preserve the rich past of wilson county, texas.

Arts & Culture
10
Whitehead Memorial Museum

The organization and maintenance of an historical museum depicting the life and times of early southwest texas and mexico residents.

Arts & Culture
11
Brazoria County Historical Museum

Preserve the history of brazoria county, texas.

Arts & Culture
12
Seguin-Guadalupe County Heritage Museum Inc
—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of the West Texas Frontier and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Warren Ferris Cemetery. 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 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%8%<5yr16%12%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr10%22%35–55yr12%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%12%<5yr16%27%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr10%11%35–55yr12%8%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/64
the rest of the field
16%
11,101/68,149

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.

05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 64 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
22/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Texas Archive of the Moving Image — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTexas Archive of the Moving ImageFlower Hill Center — $30,000 · Arts & CultureFlower Hill CenterRemember the Alamo Foundation — $21,000 · Arts & CultureRemember the Alamo FoundationBRYAN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Arts & CultureBRYAN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTEThe Texas State Historical Association — $18,000 · Arts & CultureThe Texas State Historical Association+25 more — $166,100 · Arts & Culture+25 moreFRIENDS OF THE WHEELOCK SCHOOL HOUSE — $100,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE WHEELOCK SCHOOL HOUSEHOUSTON ARTS & MEDIA — $43,332 · OtherHOUSTON ARTS & MEDIACHISHOLM TRAIL HERITAGE MUSEUM — $20,000 · OtherCHISHOLM TRAIL HERITAGE MUSEUMThe Heritage Society — $10,000 · OtherTWIN SISTERS HALL CLUB INC — $10,000 · OtherCADDO MOUNDS STATE HISTORIC SITE FRIENDS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · Other+15 more — $90,556 · Other+15 moreRutherford B H Yates Museum Inc — $16,000 · EducationBUILDINGCOMMUNITYWORKSHOP — $11,000 · EducationGault School of Archaeological Research — $8,000 · EducationSchreiner University — $8,000 · EducationTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO — $5,000 · EducationTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE WARREN FERRIS CEMETERY — $30,000 · Community ImprovementBELLVILLE TURNVEREIN PAVILION RESTORATION PROJECT — $5,000 · Community ImprovementHEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropySAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions — $8,000 · Human ServicesThe Shumla School Inc — $7,974 · Social Science
Arts & Culture$305,100Other$283,888Education$53,000Community Improvement$35,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Philanthropy$10,000Human Services$8,000Social Science$7,974

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 Archive of the Moving Image — $50,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetFlower Hill Center — $30,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARREN FERRIS CEMETERY — $30,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetRemember the Alamo Foundation — $21,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBRYAN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Texas State Historical Association — $18,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRutherford B H Yates Museum Inc — $16,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetHEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBUILDINGCOMMUNITYWORKSHOP — $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Heritage Society — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetEl Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Association — $10,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSchreiner University — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOM LEA INSTITUTE — $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGONZALES MAIN STREET INC — $8,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetKOVNO COMMUNICATIONS INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDocumentary Arts Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAVALLA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRANCHO ALEGRE RADIO — $8,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMIDLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $8,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetThe Shumla School Inc — $7,974 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY — $6,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEAQUIST HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLVILLE TURNVEREIN PAVILION RESTORATION PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRENHAM HERITAGE MUSEUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOSQUE MUSEUM — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDallas Jewish Historical Society — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPOLISH HERITAGE CENTER AT PANNA MARIA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHISHOLM TRAIL HERITAGE MUSEUM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORT MARTIN SCOTT FRIENDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNIGHT HERON MEDIA — $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Fort Worth Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Humanities TexasGreater Houston Commu…Meadows Foundation IncAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Union Pacific Foundat…Still Water FoundationKickapoo Springs Foun…Abell-Hanger Foundati…The Brown Foundation …Communities Foundatio…National Trust for Hi…
The Summerlee FoundationTX62.4× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Summerlee Foundation · Humanities Texas · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Still Water Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States

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 Texas Historical Foundation 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%3%10%23%40%your 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

    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 64 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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