Texas · Nonprofit
DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC
DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,730 to it, the largest being DENTON BENEFIT LEAGUE ($66,730). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 61% between 2017 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
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.
- United Way of Denton County Incshared funders
- Sage Foundationportfolio match
- The Tom Morgan and Erna J McReynolds Charitable Foundationportfolio 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 85% · 2018 69% · 2019 55% · 2020 52% · 2021 1631% · 2022 293%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
475% of DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC’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
DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 94% · 2019 65% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
- United Way of Denton County Incshared fundersTX · backs 10 organizations that share your funders
- Sage Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Tom Morgan and Erna J McReynolds Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shreveport Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fifth Avenue Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delaware National Bank of Delhi Corporateportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stark County Convention & Visitors' Bureauportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Randolph County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Mid-Hudson Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC: 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 DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC?
- DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,730 to it, the largest being DENTON BENEFIT LEAGUE ($66,730). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $74,730 in grants to DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC?
- DENTON BENEFIT LEAGUE is the largest funder on record, with $66,730 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 3funders 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