How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Texas?

Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Texas, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Dallas Symphony Foundation, The Eugene McDermott Foundation. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Texas from out of state.

Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Texas?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Texas, $65M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Texas?

$1.1B reached 1,663 arts and culture organizations in Texas, from 2,586 funders. 69% came from funders also based in Texas.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Texas · Arts and culture

Who funds arts and culture in Texas

Arts and culture funding in Texas is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Dallas Symphony Association leads, and the money reaches 1,663 groups.

$1.1B

granted

1,663

organizations

69%

from in-state

The short version

2,586 funders gave $1.1B to 1,663 arts and culture organizations in Texas across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
69% of that came from funders also based in Texas; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of arts and culture in Texas is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $65M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Dallas Symphony Association, at $67M.

Largest funders of arts and culture in Texas

The funders giving the most to arts and culture organizations in Texas, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$65M 2Dallas Symphony Foundation$33M 3The Eugene McDermott Foundation$33M 4The Brown Foundation Inc$29M 5Corporation for Public Broadcasting$27M 6Houston Endowment Inc$26M 7Burnett Foundation$25M 8Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$19M 9Greater Houston Community Foundation$19M 10Fort Worth Art Association$19M

Arts and culture organizations in Texas that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,653 other arts and culture organizations$784M

Dallas Symphony Association$67M

How to find arts and culture funders in Texas

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Start with the funders already active in Texas
The funders giving the most to arts and culture in Texas are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Dallas Symphony Foundation, The Eugene McDermott Foundation. A funder already writing arts and culture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
31% of arts and culture money in Texas comes from funders elsewhere, so national arts and culture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Texas.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Texas?: Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Texas, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Dallas Symphony Foundation, The Eugene McDermott Foundation. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Texas from out of state.
Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Texas?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Texas, $65M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Texas?: $1.1B reached 1,663 arts and culture organizations in Texas, from 2,586 funders. 69% came from funders also based in Texas.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.