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Columbus Historic Preservation Trust

Columbus Historic Preservation Trust (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,564 to it, the largest being DAVID AND EULA WINTERMANN FOUNDATION ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$850k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$325k
Net assets
$3.1M
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Columbus Historic Preservation Trust does

Mission

Preservation, Display and use of Historic buildings

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Fundraising activities to generate donations from individuals for the restoration and preservation of historic buildings in Columbus, Texas

    $49,859 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $49,859.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($253k) Expenses 100 ($103k) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2018 Revenue 50 ($126k) Expenses 162 ($167k) Net assets 98 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 30 ($76k) Expenses 71 ($73k) Net assets 98 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 10 ($25k) Expenses 47 ($48k) Net assets 97 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 5 ($13k) Expenses 43 ($44k) Net assets 95 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 55 ($139k) Expenses 61 ($63k) Net assets 99 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 150 ($380k) Expenses 48 ($50k) Net assets 117 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 336 ($850k) Expenses 27 ($28k) Net assets 160 ($3.1M)
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Revenue (336)Expenses (27)Net assets (160)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 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $3.1M (+37%).

$1.9M
$1.9M
$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$1.9M
$2.2M
$3.1M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

107% of Columbus Historic Preservation Trust’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (73% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,446 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$150k
’17
−$41k
’18
$4k
’19
−$23k
’20
−$31k
’21
$76k
’22
$330k
’23
$823k
’24
443
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.

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Listed121516129944
Joined·+8+3+0+5+1+2+0
No longer listed·5248170
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $14k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Columbus Historic Preservation Trust’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

Columbus Historic Preservation Trust leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

39%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Columbus Historic Preservation Trust's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Columbus Historic Preservation Trust has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,356 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin97% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve442.8mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,356 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Columbus Historic Preservation Trust: 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 Columbus Historic Preservation Trust?
Columbus Historic Preservation Trust (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,564 to it, the largest being DAVID AND EULA WINTERMANN FOUNDATION ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Columbus Historic Preservation Trust have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $324,564 in grants to Columbus Historic Preservation Trust, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Columbus Historic Preservation Trust?
DAVID AND EULA WINTERMANN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Columbus Historic Preservation Trust 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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