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Three Rivers Foundation for the Arts & Sciences

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$144k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,907
Largest grant, FY2025
$111,066
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Three Rivers Foundation for the Arts & Sciences funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$144k75%
FY20246$12M33%
FY20235$859k100%
FY20222$8600%
FY20211$1k0%
FY20205$3k60%
FY20196$3kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$12MPublic Benefit$1.0MArts & Culture$60kCommunity Improvement$13kReligion$500Environment$200Human Services$140Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas Tech University System$12,021,0662n/a
Quanah Historical Preservation$59,6802n/a
Texas Tech Foundation Inc$30,9071n/a
Friends of Foard County 4-H$14,5601n/a
Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra$21310%

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

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How do I get to Three Rivers Foundation for the Arts & Sciences?

Find your warmest path to Three Rivers Foundation for the Arts & Sciences through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Three Rivers Foundation for the Arts & Sciences

How much does Three Rivers Foundation for the Arts & Sciences give?
Three Rivers Foundation for the Arts & Sciences reported 4 grants totaling $143,973 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Three Rivers Foundation for the Arts & Sciences fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (92%), Public Benefit (8%), Arts & Culture (0%).
Who are Three Rivers Foundation for the Arts & Sciences's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Texas Tech University System ($12M), Quanah Historical Preservation ($60k), Texas Tech Foundation Inc ($31k).
Does Three Rivers Foundation for the Arts & Sciences fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Three Rivers Foundation for the Arts & Sciences accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Three Rivers Foundation for the Arts & Sciences based?
Three Rivers Foundation for the Arts & Sciences is based in TX.

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 19 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-PF 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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