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CULTURINGUA

CULTURINGUA (Texas) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,173,208 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($821,750). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$681k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$553k
11/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Culturingua does

Mission

Culturingua is a community & economic development organization whose mission is to preserve, promote, and enhance the cultural character in and around San Antonios Silk Road Cultural Heritage District.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Arts and Culture: Documented cultural significance of Silk Road Cultural Heritage District, which was formally recognized by City of San Antonio in Dec. 2024. Documented oral histories of 2 Silk Road businesses for San Antonio Legacy Business Program. Gave Silk Road tours, lectures, and talks, including panel hosted by Texas Public Radio and City of San Antonio World Heritage Office to highlight Silk Road culinary contributions. Hosted poetry night attended by 50 people with local poets celebrating civic engagement. In Cultural Exchange, increased cross-cultural collaboration and cultural competencies of 343 high school students in San Antonio and Libya. Taught Arab culture and Arabic language to 209 students during a youth summer camp. Led culturally-responsive peer support including expressive art activities to support integration and wellbeing of 300 refugee youth.

    $361,806 spentof which $14,081 as grants$2,025 earned by the program
    61% of program spending
  2. Art-Based Small Business: Support art-based entrepreneurs and small business owners in and around the Silk Road Cultural Heritage District. Supported 168 individuals to either start art-based businesses or improve employment skills at art-based businesses in the cultural textile and culinary industries. 4 individuals legally incorporated their business. Culturingua provided 1:1 technical assistance to 2 established culinary cultural businesses in the Silk Road for access to capital, tailored training programs, and access to other resources to support small business growth. As a result, Culturingua enabled these businesses to obtain $35,000 in combined grants to grow their small businesses.

    $173,668 spent
    29% of program spending
  3. Silk Road Community Land Trust (CLT): Worked with community to develop strategy for the CLT to enable artists and low-income residents to achieve affordable homeownership in and around the Silk Road Cultural Heritage District. Visited and learned from existing, mature CLTs nationally. Provided input to City of San Antonio for development of CLT Designation Policy, which was approved by San Antonio City Council in Oct. 2024. Served 43 individuals in financial education courses. Impact: 6 individuals checked their credit score, 2 achieving an increase in their credit score by an average of 20 points. 1 individual who previously had no credit established credit. 11 individuals created a savings plan. 6 individuals created full budget. 6 individuals increased savings. 1 individual established and maintained a savings habit for at least 3 consecutive months.

    $58,335 spent
    10% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $593,809.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($76k) Expenses 100 ($66k) Net assets -4 ($-4909)2021 Revenue 330 ($250k) Expenses 191 ($126k) Net assets 100 ($119k)2022 Revenue 966 ($733k) Expenses 590 ($389k) Net assets 388 ($463k)2023 Revenue 1231 ($934k) Expenses 1242 ($817k) Net assets 486 ($581k)2024 Revenue 898 ($681k) Expenses 1081 ($712k) Net assets 462 ($553k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (898)Expenses (1081)Net assets (462)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $155k to $542k (+249%).

$15k
$155k
$542k
$662k
$584k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 34% · 2022 28% · 2023 26% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’20
$124k
’21
$344k
’22
$117k
’23
−$31k
’24
3.3
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.

2021202220232024
Listed8989
Joined·+5+0+2
No longer listed·411
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $3k → $532k.

5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 CULTURINGUA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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

CULTURINGUA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

89% 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 CULTURINGUA.

38%
largest funder
57%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 39% · 2022 37% · 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

33% of CULTURINGUA's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

CULTURINGUA draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 6 states in all.

NY
MA
CA
VA
DC
TX

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $269k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Organizations like CULTURINGUA

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

84%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds CULTURINGUA?
CULTURINGUA (Texas) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,173,208 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($821,750). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CULTURINGUA have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,173,208 in grants to CULTURINGUA, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CULTURINGUA?
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $821,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CULTURINGUA 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 21 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