· Public charity
Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture
To provide leadership to support, promote and cultivate the arts in Wichita Falls and the surrounding area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $66,640 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $70,200 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,560 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wichita Falls Backdoor Players Inc | $6,640 |
| River Bend Nature Works Inc | $6,560 |
| Arts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc | $6,440 |
| Wichita Falls Museum of Art | $6,260 |
| Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra | $6,220 |
| Wichita Falls Ballet Theatre | $6,160 |
| Museum of North Texas History | $6,160 |
| Wichita Falls Arts Association | $5,940 |
| Zavala Hispanic Cultural Initiative | $5,880 |
| Wichita Falls Fire & Police Museum | $5,220 |
| Wichita Falls Youth Symphony | $5,160 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WFWICHITA FALLS YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA6× · 2019–2025 · $58k · revenue +49%
- WFWichita Falls Symphony Orchestra6× · 2019–2025 · $58k · revenue +80%
- WFWICHITA FALLS BALLET THEATRE INC6× · 2019–2025 · $57k · revenue +13%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide leadership to support, promote and cultivate the arts in Wichita Falls and the surrounding area. To strengthen and elevate arts and culture including, but not limited to, visual and performing arts, literature, culinary arts,…
To engage and enrich our community by providing outstanding arts programming and cultural activities that inspire creativity and participation.
To provide educational programs to children in the community with regard to performing arts.
The mission of the wichita symphony society is to enrich, educate, and entertain diverse audiences of all ages in our region through performances of orchestral music, thereby enhancing the vibrancy and vitality of wichita.
The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…
Creative waco's mission is to grow and support a thriving cultural and creative community in waco and mclennan county, texas.
To educate the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of wichita and sedgwick county
The organization exists to support the wichita falls symphony orchestra and to promote community support for cultural and musical activities
Music theatre wichita advances the musical theatre art form by educating and nurturing creators, artists and audiences, primarily through the production of broadway-caliber shows.
Public arts funding
The Walla Walla Symphony delights and challenges our community by providing live orchestral performances and opportunities for leaning about music.
The Mission of The Mesquite Arts Center is to make visual and performing arts available to all the communities of North Texas; to become a creative force and an educational resource for our regional residents; and to deliver the economic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is The Museum of North Texas History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ZAVALA HISPANIC CULTURAL INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds River Bend Nature Works Inc ↗
- Who funds The Museum of North Texas History ↗
- Who funds Arts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS BACKDOOR PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY DBA KELL HOUSE HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS ART ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation · Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc · J S Bridwell Foundation · The Fain Foundation · Donnell Foundation · James N McCoy Foundation · Perkins-Prothro Foundation · The Priddy Foundation · Gene Conley Foundation · Libra Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture 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.
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.