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FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION

FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,412,271 to it, the largest being THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION ($1,742,380). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.2M
Revenue FY2024
23
Funders on record
$3.4M
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
14/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%

Against its field

FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve9.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($942k)2018 Revenue 129 ($2.3M) Expenses 132 ($2.5M) Net assets 84 ($788k)2019 Revenue 158 ($2.8M) Expenses 108 ($2.0M) Net assets 171 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 138 ($2.5M) Expenses 109 ($2.0M) Net assets 218 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 89 ($1.6M) Expenses 86 ($1.6M) Net assets 217 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 118 ($2.1M) Expenses 98 ($1.8M) Net assets 252 ($2.4M)2023 Revenue 114 ($2.0M) Expenses 129 ($2.4M) Net assets 213 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 69 ($1.2M) Expenses 59 ($1.1M) Net assets 228 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (69)Expenses (59)Net assets (228)Peer revenue range

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: 2017 39% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 16% · 2021 23% · 2022 25% · 2023 15% · 2024 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$77k
’17
−$154k
’18
$803k
’19
$443k
’20
−$12k
’21
$283k
’22
−$366k
’23
$133k
’24
9.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $11k → $792k.

Funder
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'22
'23
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'25*
total
Humanities Texasunclassified
$16k
funders
2
2
4
9
8
8
10
10
4

5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION’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

FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

51%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 96% · 2019 84% · 2020 64% · 2021 60% · 2022 46% · 2023 70% — 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

46% of FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

99% of FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.

IL
RI
NE
TX

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

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’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION

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

Texas Forestry Museum82%South Padre Island Historical Foundation81%Texas State History Museum Foundation81%Fort Bend Forward Inc80%Fort Worth Botanical Society Inc80%Rosenberg Railroad Museum Inc80%Friends of Fort Davis National Historic Site Inc79%Fort Worth Modern Art Museum Association79%

Nationally

Texas Forestry Museum82%South Padre Island Historical Foundation81%Texas State History Museum Foundation81%Fort Smith Museum of History80%Fort Smith Heritage Foundation Inc80%Fort Bend Forward Inc80%Fort Worth Botanical Society Inc80%Rosenberg Railroad Museum Inc80%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 24%Fundraising 8%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION: 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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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 FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION?
FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,412,271 to it, the largest being THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION ($1,742,380). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,412,271 in grants to FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION?
THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,742,380 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23funders 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