Texas · Nonprofit
ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC
ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,305,049 to it, the largest being DIAN GRAVES OWEN FOUNDATION ($19,001,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $48M
- Net assets
- $92M
What Abilene Heritage Square Inc does
Mission
To provide a new home for the main branch of the abilene public library, further expand educational opportunities for area citizens, especially children, contribute to the economic and social revival of the surrounding neighborhood, and provide community gathering space.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Raise funding to rehabilitate and construct the space for the future library and public programs
$42,901 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $42,901.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $56M to $78M (+38%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 22% · 2021 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $50k → $11M.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $9.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Abilene). These are real filings, and they are not money ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 30% · 2021 53% · 2022 51% · 2023 36% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
67% of ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
18% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC?
- ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,305,049 to it, the largest being DIAN GRAVES OWEN FOUNDATION ($19,001,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $48,305,049 in grants to ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC?
- DIAN GRAVES OWEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $19,001,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 23 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing