Texas · Nonprofit
AUDIE MURPHY AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM
AUDIE MURPHY AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,393 to it, the largest being CULLEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($18,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $284k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $996k
What Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum does
Mission
To preserve for public benefit information, history, pre-history, natural history and history of hunt county, texas. The emphasis is on cotton and audie murphy, world war ii hero. All citizens of hunt county, texas, benefit from the museum.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Admissions to museum, showcasing numerous exhibits with historically accurate or real historical items from the time period.
$182,501 spent$36,447 earned by the program61% of program spendingEducation programs created and/or hosted by the museum, offered to children of all ages in hunt county and the surrounding counties.
$3,737 spent$5,072 earned by the program1% of program spendingSpecial events and programs hosted over a variety of topics. These events are either made available to the public and reserved for small groups within hunt county and the surrounding counties.
$17,968 spent$19,786 earned by the program6% of program spendingOther programs and services offered to the public
$93,138 spent$26,676 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $297,344.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $1.1M (+6%).
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 19% · 2018 26% · 2019 27% · 2020 31% · 2021 36% · 2022 54% · 2023 25% · 2024 24% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of AUDIE MURPHY AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $10k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 AUDIE MURPHY AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM’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
AUDIE MURPHY AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 65% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
97% of AUDIE MURPHY AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $393 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.
Against its field
AUDIE MURPHY AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AUDIE MURPHY AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM
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
96% 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 AUDIE MURPHY AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM: 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 AUDIE MURPHY AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM?
- AUDIE MURPHY AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,393 to it, the largest being CULLEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($18,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUDIE MURPHY AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $29,393 in grants to AUDIE MURPHY AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUDIE MURPHY AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM?
- CULLEN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUDIE MURPHY AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM 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 4 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