Texas · Nonprofit
Friends of River Oaks Theatre Inc
Friends of River Oaks Theatre Inc (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,185 to it, the largest being ALVIN & LUCY OWSLEY FOUNDATION ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $260k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Friends of River Oaks Theatre Inc does
Mission
Friends of River Oaks Theatre, Inc., dba Arthouse Houston, is a community-based nonprofit dedicated to joyously enriching and preserving Houstons artistic film community and arthouse spaces. This mission is furthered by improving accessibility to arts and cinema through programming, public outreach, partnerships, and education for the benefit of our vibrant, diverse community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Outreach & Education: Friends of River Oaks Theatre, dba Arthouse Houston, is dedicated to joyously enriching the hearts and minds of a diverse community through the facilitation of art, the moving image, and support of historic cinemas including the River Oaks Theatre through Outreach and Educational programming. This programming includes monthly Mobile Movie Palace screening events and our Big Picture Series, with interdisciplinary artistic performances and educational opportunities, and our Friends on Film podcast, featuring lively discussions spanning the many areas of art and film, rooted in its history, present state, and future, highlighting local programming and festivals within Houston and the greater state of Texas.
$57,980 spent$38,817 earned by the program82% of program spendingOriginal artists' work in support of the theatre: Friends of River Oaks Theatre, dba Arthouse Houston, regularly works with local artists on projects of varied disciplines to create art and exhibit it. This currently includes the creation of our Mobile Movie Palace Art Car, which contracts artists, painters, sculptors, mechanics, and more, and upon completion, will be both an art piece and a functioning film venue. This also includes our Cinema Revival documentary, an upcoming film about a passionate community saving the last historic arthouse theatre in Houston, TX, which will include collaboration with directors, editors, writers, musicians, and more.
$12,815 spent18% of program spendingHistoric Preservation Efforts: Friends of River Oaks Theatre, dba Arthouse Houston, acts as a passionate steward to preserve historic theaters in the area and specifically to support the River Oaks Theatre as an iconic cultural destination for the benefit of all. This is done through our historic preservation efforts, including acting as an umbrella organization for preservation efforts, helping to acquire historic documents such as photos and architectural plans, help with filing for historic designations, and spreading awareness of the theatres through outreach efforts.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $70,795.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $18k to $115k (+538%).
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: 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of Friends of River Oaks Theatre Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Maureen McNamara
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Friends of River Oaks Theatre 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
Friends of River Oaks Theatre Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 River Oaks Theatre Inc.
“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 River Oaks Theatre Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
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
Friends of River Oaks Theatre Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Friends of River Oaks Theatre Inc
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.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Friends of River Oaks Theatre 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Friends of River Oaks Theatre Inc?
- Friends of River Oaks Theatre Inc (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,185 to it, the largest being ALVIN & LUCY OWSLEY FOUNDATION ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of River Oaks Theatre Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $24,185 in grants to Friends of River Oaks Theatre Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of River Oaks Theatre Inc?
- ALVIN & LUCY OWSLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of River Oaks Theatre 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 3 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