Texas · Nonprofit
ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON
ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,644,042 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($1,003,732). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $600k
What Art League of Houston does
Mission
The mission of art league houston is to connect the community through diverse, dynamic, and creative experiences that bring people together to see, make, and talk about contemporary visual art.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibition programart league houston's (alh) exhibition program encompasses a diverse range of exhibitions, public art projects, and an annual awards initiative. Alh presents exhibitions in 3 onsite galleries by local, regional, national, and international artists, both emerging and established, that cross into public and social spheres, incorporate ideas of social justice, and connect to current trends and dialogues in contemporary art. To ensure strong artistic quality and projects that reflect houston's rich cross section of cultures, exhibits are carefully selected using a combination of 1) open call in an effort to be democratic; 2) artist advisory board input to ensure alh is reflective and relevant; and 3) focused curatorial vision to foster a thoughtful and critical exploration of current issues.alh's public art program is a community driven, temporary public art installation project designed to make artwork accessible to nontraditional art audiences while creating new models for including the larger community in the artmaking process.since 1983, alh's annual awards program honors artists whose work has had a significant and positive impact on contemporary visual art in…
$269,560 spent$11,115 earned by the program31% of program spendingThe art league schoolthe mission of the Art League of Houston (alh) school is to foster an artistic community where individuals can come together to learn, share their knowledge, and explore new ideas and techniques through the creative process. Through this exploration, students are encouraged to develop their own unique style, leading to personal and artistic growth that extends beyond the classroom. The goal is to instill a love for creativity that lasts a lifetime. Founded in 1968, the alh school annually provides diverse educational opportunities to over 100 students. Studio art classes and workshops, led by professional artists, occur in three fully equipped studios encompassing painting, drawing, ceramics, watercolor, printmaking, mixed media, and jewelry. With a commitment to individualized attention and accommodating varying skill levels, class sizes are intentionally limited. Students benefit not only from the courses but also gain access to exhibitions, lectures, public programs, and artist talks throughout the year, enriching their artistic training.flexible access: in may 2022, alh established "flexible access," a pay-what-you-can community-based art course program…
$415,759 spent$347,142 earned by the program48% of program spendingCommunity programs alh's community programs include the healing arts, artbound!, summer intensive for teens (sift), skillshare, and creative healing. Healing art: the healing art program provides high-quality art instruction in a variety of media to adults 17 and older in the houston community with chronic illnesses or physical disabilities in a fun, supportive, community-minded environment that also fosters artistic development. Guided by professional teaching artists in a well-equipped studio environment, participants engage in artistic expression and creative exploration, expanding their artistic skills and opening up new possibilities for self-expression. Artbound!: artbound! Benefits kindergarten through 8th grade youth, specifically those attending title 1 schools in hisd with limited or no visual arts instruction. The program is ongoing and takes place during the school year. Unique in its format, artbound! Establishes residencies in targeted schools and assigns its own trained teaching artists to work directly with school principals and teachers. Classroom teachers participate in the planning process to ensure that the residencies support and enhance their classroom…
$172,785 spent$4,482 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $858,104.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $872k to $1.0M (+16%).
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: 2017 27% · 2018 11% · 2019 19% · 2020 12% · 2021 26% · 2022 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Jennie Ash
Executive director
Board chair
Sophie Asakua
Artist advisory board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $59k → $328k.
7 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 47% · 2019 79% · 2020 45% · 2021 39% · 2022 22% · 2023 23% — 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
53% of ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
99% of ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k 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.
Government funding ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$85k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON?
- ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,644,042 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($1,003,732). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,644,042 in grants to ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON?
- Houston Arts Alliance is the largest funder on record, with $1,003,732 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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