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BUTLER LONGHORN MUSEUM

BUTLER LONGHORN MUSEUM (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION ($4,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$10k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$4k
Net assets
$3k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Butler Longhorn Museum does

Mission

The museum is an educational institution devoted to history and economics of the cattle industry from the late 1800's through present time. The museum highlights the Butler Longhorn cattle bloodline that originated in Galveston county. Currently the museum artifacts are being stored awaiting our new location. A fundraiser was held to support the storage expenses.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Museum artifacts in storage awaiting relocation. Began moving into new location Kemah TEXAS IN JUNE

    $0 spent
  2. Museum closed since October 2021

    $0 spent
  3. no activity

    $0 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($180k) Expenses 100 ($92k) Net assets 100 ($83k)2019 Revenue 59 ($107k) Expenses 146 ($135k) Net assets 67 ($55k)2020 Revenue 60 ($109k) Expenses 113 ($104k) Net assets 73 ($60k)2024 Revenue 5 ($10k) Expenses 13 ($12k) Net assets 4 ($3k)
2018201920202024
Revenue (5)Expenses (13)Net assets (4)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $85k to $58k (−32%).

$85k
$58k
$63k
$3k
2018201920202024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 40% · 2019 67% · 2020 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of BUTLER LONGHORN MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,855 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$88k
’18
−$27k
’19
$5k
’20
−$2k
’24
7.3
months of
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

Monica Hughes

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

2018201920202024
Listed9984
Joined·+0+2·
No longer listed·03·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of BUTLER LONGHORN 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.

Where its funders are

BUTLER LONGHORN MUSEUM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.

NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BUTLER LONGHORN MUSEUM's revenue fell 95% between 2018 and 2024.

Operating margin−19% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−38% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,575 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUTLER LONGHORN 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 BUTLER LONGHORN MUSEUM?
BUTLER LONGHORN MUSEUM (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION ($4,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BUTLER LONGHORN MUSEUM have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,000 in grants to BUTLER LONGHORN MUSEUM.
Who is the largest funder of BUTLER LONGHORN MUSEUM?
ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUTLER LONGHORN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing