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Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture

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, architecture and horticulture.

$70k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Itemized grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$67k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$6,160
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,640
Organizations funded a year
9 to 12
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$53k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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 arriving11$67k0%
FY202410$78k0%
FY202311$166k0%
FY202211$161k0%
FY202012$45k25%
FY20199$70kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$532kEnvironment$54k

Top grantees

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

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wichita Falls Youth Symphony Orchestra$58,29268%
Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra$58,24462%
Wichita Falls Ballet Theatre Inc$56,72265%
Midwestern State University$56,3176n/a
Zavala Hispanic Cultural Initiative$55,154620%
River Bend Nature Works Inc$53,57863%
The Museum of North Texas History$53,404613%
Arts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc$49,17351%
Wichita Falls Backdoor Players Inc$47,62855%
Wichita County Heritage Society Dba Kell House Heritage Center$39,81046%
Wichita Falls Art Association$38,332419%
Wichita Falls Fire & Police Museum$18,6454n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWichita Falls Youth Symphony Orchestra: $58,292 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetWichita Falls Symphony Orchestra: $58,244 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetWichita Falls Ballet Theatre Inc: $56,722 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetZavala Hispanic Cultural Initiative: $55,154 over 6y, 20% of budgetRiver Bend Nature Works Inc: $53,578 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetThe Museum of North Texas History: $53,404 over 6y, 13% of budgetArts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc: $49,173 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetWichita Falls Backdoor Players Inc: $47,628 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetWichita County Heritage Society Dba Kell House Heritage Center: $39,810 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetWichita Falls Art Association: $38,332 over 4y, 19% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Wichita Falls Area Community FoundationTX24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture

How much does Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture give?
Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture reported 11 itemized grants totaling $66,640, out of $70,200 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Environment (9%).
Who are Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Wichita Falls Youth Symphony Orchestra ($58k), Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra ($58k), Wichita Falls Ballet Theatre Inc ($57k).
Does Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation, Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc, J S Bridwell Foundation.
Where is Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture based?
Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture 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 12 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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