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FRIENDS OF MONUMENT HILL & KREISCHE BREWERY STATE HISTORIC SITES
FRIENDS OF MONUMENT HILL & KREISCHE BREWERY STATE HISTORIC SITES (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,037 to it, the largest being FAYETTE RESALE INCORPORATED ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $117k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $51k
- Net assets
- $142k
What Friends of Monument Hill & Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites does
Mission
The Friends of Kreische Brewery & Monument Hill State Historic Sites is the Texas Historical Commission's key partner in promoting and preserving the Historic Sites' legacy.The Friends host events, support programs, and foster outreach that share the stories of the Historic Sites, Fayette County, and the State of Texas. In doing so, the Friends preserve the past while inspiring the passions of a new generation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
TEXAS HEROES DAY- Reenactment of military actions and family living during the period of the Texas Republic. The historical grounds include. a monument that marks the tomb of the men that died during the Dawson Massacre of September 1842 and the ill-fated Mier expedition of November 1842, also known as the black bean incident. Nearby citizens reinterred their remains here in a common tomb so that they can be honored for their sacrifice. The site is now marked by a 1936 Centennial monument.
$4,903 spent10% of program spendingTRAIL OF LIGHTS-The grounds of Kreische Brewery and Monument Hill state historic sites were transformed with beautiful holiday lights and living exhibits of the history of the area. Guests walk the trail though the historical grounds.
$14,428 spent28% of program spendingBLUFF SCHUETZEN FEST-Celebrated the history of the Bluff Schuetzenverein, a German marksmanship and social organization which once made its home on the grounds of Kreische Brewery & Monument Hill State Historic Sites. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Bluff Scheutzenverein hosted dances, concerts, picnics and shooting competitions which welcomed people from across Texas. Sites staff and volunteers will commemorate these traditions with a day featuring entertainment, community booths, family activities, living history demonstrations, special tours, food and drink, and more.
$31,999 spent62% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $51,330.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $136k to $186k (+37%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11 → $16.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 FRIENDS OF MONUMENT HILL & KREISCHE BREWERY STATE HISTORIC SITES’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
FRIENDS OF MONUMENT HILL & KREISCHE BREWERY STATE HISTORIC SITES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 FRIENDS OF MONUMENT HILL & KREISCHE BREWERY STATE HISTORIC SITES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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 FRIENDS OF MONUMENT HILL & KREISCHE BREWERY STATE HISTORIC SITES's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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In Texas
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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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MONUMENT HILL & KREISCHE BREWERY STATE HISTORIC SITES?
- FRIENDS OF MONUMENT HILL & KREISCHE BREWERY STATE HISTORIC SITES (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,037 to it, the largest being FAYETTE RESALE INCORPORATED ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF MONUMENT HILL & KREISCHE BREWERY STATE HISTORIC SITES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $51,037 in grants to FRIENDS OF MONUMENT HILL & KREISCHE BREWERY STATE HISTORIC SITES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF MONUMENT HILL & KREISCHE BREWERY STATE HISTORIC SITES?
- FAYETTE RESALE INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF MONUMENT HILL & KREISCHE BREWERY STATE HISTORIC SITES 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 5 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