Texas · Nonprofit
Arena Hall
Arena Hall (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,832,308 to it, the largest being Emergent Order Foundation Inc ($933,808). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Arena Hall does
Mission
The Organization will provide education and training for rising leaders for the benefit of the broader community in Austin and the State of Texas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
1. Community Building, Civic Engagement, and Network Development Arena Hall built and expanded a professional and civic community of aligned leaders in Austin, Texas, growing over 100% in a single program year. The organization hosted events across twelve topical areas including national security, energy, capital markets, education, public policy, arts and culture, health and wellness, and entrepreneurship. Programming brought together founders, investors, policymakers, researchers, and civic leaders for structured convenings designed to generate partnerships, accelerate active projects, and launch new ones. Event formats included weekly community lunches, off- the-record roundtable discussions, thematic working groups, expert-led
$1,178,673 spent100% of program spendingtraining sessions, and documentary film screenings. The organization also hosted recurring happy hours connecting leaders across Austins emerging sectors, and provided physical space and hospitality infra- structure for thousands of informal meetings and working sessions. Programming regularly featured nationally recognized leaders visiting, Austin, providing the broader civic community with access to consequential conversations on the most pressing challenges facing the city, state, and nation. 2. Support for Educational, Philanthropic, and Faith-Based Initiatives Arena Hall actively supported and accelerated a range of educational, philanthropic, and faith-based initiatives by providing convening
infrastructure, cross-sector introductions, and direct programming. On the educational front, the organization hosted leaders from UATX, the Civitas Institute and the recently founded School of Civic Leadership at UT Austin, and multiple K-12 innovation efforts, including founders developing new school models, school choice policy advocates,and investors deploying significant capital into educational ventures. Programming addressed everything from AI-driven curriculum development to classical education models and higher education reform. In the philanthropic sphere, Arena Hall hosted workshops on strategic giving and spotlighted high-impact nonprofit organizations, connecting member leaders to opportunities for more intentional - continued Schedule O
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,178,673.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $673k to $4.2M (+520%).
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.
71% of Arena Hall’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
9 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Arena Hall’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
Arena Hall leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Arena Hall.
“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.
Where its funders are
79% of Arena Hall's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $589k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Arena Hall receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.8M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Arena Hall
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Arena Hall: 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 Arena Hall?
- Arena Hall (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,832,308 to it, the largest being Emergent Order Foundation Inc ($933,808). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Arena Hall have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,832,308 in grants to Arena Hall, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Arena Hall?
- Emergent Order Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $933,808 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Arena Hall 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 16 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