Texas · Public charity
Texas Historical Foundation
Preservation of texas history and artifacts.
- $254k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $203k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Texas Historical Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $203k | 88% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $216k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $80k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $45k | 78% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $66k | 90% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $20k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $78k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Wheelock School House | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Archive of the Moving Image | $50,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Houston Arts & Media | $43,332 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Warren Ferris Cemetery | $30,000 | 1 | 37% |
| Flower Hill Center | $30,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Remember the Alamo Foundation | $21,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bryan Educational Institute | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Texas State Historical Association | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rutherford B H Yates Museum Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 9% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Texas Historical Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Texas Historical Foundation
- How much does Texas Historical Foundation give?
- Texas Historical Foundation reported 24 itemized grants totaling $202,630, out of $253,982 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Texas Historical Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (86%), Community Improvement (5%), Education (4%).
- Who are Texas Historical Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of the Wheelock School House ($100k), Texas Archive of the Moving Image ($50k), Houston Arts & Media ($43k).
- Does Texas Historical Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Texas Historical Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Summerlee Foundation, Humanities Texas, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is Texas Historical Foundation based?
- Texas Historical Foundation is based in TX.
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