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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $202,630, the rows itemized in this filing. The $253,982 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $51,352 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
ARCHER COUNTY MUSEUM AND ARTS CENTER$8,000
TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$8,000
THE CAVALLA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION DBA GALVESTON NAVAL MUSEUM$8,000
TEXAS HERITAGE PROJECT OF AITSCM$8,000
SCHREINER UNIVERSITY DBA THE TEXAS CENTER AT SCHREINER UNIVERITY$8,000
RANCHO ALEGRE RADIO DBA RANCHO ALEGRE$8,000
MUSEUM OF THE WEST TEXAS FRONTIER$8,000
AUSTIN FILM SOCIETY OBO SUGARLOAF PICTURES LLC$8,000
KOVNO COMMUNICATIONS INC OBO LIZ CARPENTER FILM PARTNERS$8,000
DOCUMENTARY ARTS INC$8,000
MIDLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY$8,000
FRIENDS OF THE TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION$8,000
TOM LEA INSTITUTE$8,000
THE WILLIAMSON MUSEUM OBO THE STONES ARE SPEAKING$8,000
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:

Its 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 its 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
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 13% of Texas Historical Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 97%.

Texas Historical Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+39%

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
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

  • 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
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE WARREN FERRIS CEMETERY
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · 37% of their budget
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
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
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of the West Texas Frontier; 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.
05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 64 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
23/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 MUSEUMTWIN SISTERS HALL CLUB INC: $10,000 · OtherThe Heritage Society: $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 · EducationSchreiner University: $8,000 · EducationGault School of Archaeological Research: $8,000 · EducationTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas Archive of the Moving Image: $50,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARREN FERRIS CEMETERY: $30,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetFlower Hill Center: $30,000 over 1y, 5.6% 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 budgetEl Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Association: $10,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetThe Heritage Society: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetGONZALES MAIN STREET INC: $8,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSchreiner University: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDocumentary Arts Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAVALLA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTOM LEA INSTITUTE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKOVNO COMMUNICATIONS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRANCHO ALEGRE RADIO: $8,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE WEST TEXAS FRONTIER: $8,000 over 1y, 5.4% 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 budgetBRENHAM HERITAGE MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELLVILLE TURNVEREIN PAVILION RESTORATION PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCHISHOLM TRAIL HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNIGHT HERON MEDIA: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSEAQUIST HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFORT MARTIN SCOTT FRIENDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBOSQUE MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDallas Jewish Historical Society: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHistoric Fort Worth Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOLISH HERITAGE CENTER AT PANNA MARIA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

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

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 Texas Historical Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Texas Historical Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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 64 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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