Texas · Nonprofit
Dickinson Band Boosters
Dickinson Band Boosters (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,311 to it, the largest being TEXAS INSTRUMENTS FOUNDATION ($700). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $91k
What Dickinson Band Boosters does
Mission
High School Band Support
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Fundraiser distributions to students for band fees, etc. There were about 100 students that fundraised and then used their funds.
$13,666 spent50% of program spendingFed band students throughout school year - marching season, concert season, and leadership. This was for about 300 band students.
$8,626 spent31% of program spendingPaid entrance fees for marching competitions and concert competitions. This was for about 300 band students.
$5,150 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,442.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $126 → $357.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Dickinson Band Boosters’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
Dickinson Band Boosters leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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
47% 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 Dickinson Band Boosters.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 61% · 2023 56% — 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 Dickinson Band Boosters's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $611 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
Dickinson Band Boosters's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Dickinson Band Boosters
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dickinson Band Boosters: 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 Dickinson Band Boosters?
- Dickinson Band Boosters (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,311 to it, the largest being TEXAS INSTRUMENTS FOUNDATION ($700). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dickinson Band Boosters have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,311 in grants to Dickinson Band Boosters, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dickinson Band Boosters?
- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dickinson Band Boosters 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 2025–2025), 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