Texas · Nonprofit
ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND
ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $996,853 to it, the largest being REA CHARITABLE TRUST - MAIN ($580,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Helen Greathouse Charitable Trustshared funderslocal
- Culturesourceportfolio match
- Mid-America Arts Allianceportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 29% · 2018 32% · 2019 25% · 2020 42% · 2021 30% · 2022 28% · 2023 27% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $753 → $215k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $195k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Permian Basin Area Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND raised.
From the IRS filings of ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND’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
ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 90% · 2020 75% · 2021 75% · 2022 83% · 2023 84% — 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
50% of ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Helen Greathouse Charitable Trustshared funderslocalMO · backs 75 organizations that share your funders · funds 36 organizations near you
- Culturesourceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid-America Arts Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harlan Boss Foundation for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allied Arts of Oklahoma Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Midwest Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ea Michelson Philanthropy Co Family Philanthropy Advisorsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Creative Westportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yarborough Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 25 organizations near you
- Scharbauer Foundation Incshared funderslocalTX · backs 87 organizations that share your funders · funds 53 organizations near you
- Beal Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 74 organizations that share your funders · funds 29 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND?
- ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $996,853 to it, the largest being REA CHARITABLE TRUST - MAIN ($580,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $996,853 in grants to ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND?
- REA CHARITABLE TRUST - MAIN is the largest funder on record, with $580,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing