Texas · Nonprofit
DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER
DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE SUMMERLEE FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Dickey Museum & Multipurpose Center does
Mission
The purpose of the corporation is to preserve the legacy and carry out the provision and spirit of dr. James lee dickey and the students of the blackshear and o.l. Price schools in taylor, texas in the following ways: to collect, preserve and exhibit documents and material objects relating to the history of the city of taylor and the local african american culture in art and history, educating through modern technology; to provide educational programs related to the local community and african american culture in art and history; to officer instructional classes and to provide a facility and grounds that showcases "green" environmental practices, health and wellness programs, education seminars and workshops, volunteer opportunities, support groups, special events, meeting space/private rental space and individual/family services; to oversee the preservation of the home of dr. James lee dickey, maintaining it as an historical museum and multipurpose center open to the public; and to wo
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Preserve and restore the home of dr. James lee dickey to develop it into a museum and multipurpose center open to the public
$33,285 spent98% of program spendingRepair and replenish dickey museum multipurpose center.
$700 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $33,985.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $4k to $21k (+436%).
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.
100% of DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER’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
DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
40% 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 DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — 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
100% of DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER'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.
Against its field
DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $79k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$79k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER
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.
Public support
100%
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 DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER: 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 DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER?
- DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE SUMMERLEE FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,000 in grants to DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER?
- THE SUMMERLEE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DICKEY MUSEUM & MULTIPURPOSE CENTER 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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