Texas · Nonprofit
Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc
Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc (Texas) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,923,745 to it, the largest being THE SUMMERLEE FOUNDATION ($305,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc does
Mission
The Organization works with the Texas Historical Commission to preserve and protect the real places and real stories of Texas and all Texans, securing philanthropic resources to ensure a lasting legacy for future generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
2025 Annual Conference: Real Places: Preserving Historic Texas. The 2025 Annual Conference was presented in partnership with the Texas Historical Commission. The conference provided opportunities to learn from and network with professional staff, volunteers, and supporters of historic preservation and heritage tourism. Attendees included county historical commissions, Main Street managers and board members, historic preservation officers and design review boards, architects and engineers, historians, archaeologists, curators, interpreters, managers of museums and historic sites, as well as THC staff, Texas Heritage Trail Regions, and other partner agencies. The conference provides continuing education, exhibits of interest and networking through speakers and workshops.
$520,804 spent$443,261 earned by the program49% of program spendingOther projects to support the Texas Historical Commission's core mission of preservation, stewardship, and place-based, experiential learning. The Organization continues to work on projects that address core programmatic initiatives- enhancing the visitor experience through capital projects, creating education opportunities and resources for students and visitors, and building preservation capacity through stewardship.
$330,146 spentof which $151,628 as grants$29,637 earned by the program31% of program spendingProtecting historic sites across the State - The Texas Historical Commission preserves and operates 36 historic sites throughout the state. The Organization supports the preservation of these sites and helps raise the funds and awareness to make preservation, restoration, and interpretation possible. The Organization previously acquired a property adjacent to the Eisenhower Birthplace State Historical Site (SHS) and sold the property to THC at cost; acquired an additional property adjacent to the Washington-on-the-Brazos SHS for future sale to THC at cost; began the community facilitation and advisory planning for future development and operation of new facilities at the Levi Jordon Plantation SHS; continued the architectural and engineering design work for the Phase II Education Center at Caddo Mounds SHS; and made critical repairs to the Fort Martin Scott SHS.
$213,619 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,064,569.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.9M to $3.8M (+100%).
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: 2022 0% · 2023 14% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $33k → $341k.
6 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 the Texas Historical Commission Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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 the Texas Historical Commission Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 62% · 2019 66% · 2020 61% · 2021 25% · 2022 52% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
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
96% of Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k 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.
Against its field
Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Friends of the Texas Historical Commission 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Texas Historical Commission · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of the Texas Historical Commission 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 the Texas Historical Commission Inc?
- Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc (Texas) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,923,745 to it, the largest being THE SUMMERLEE FOUNDATION ($305,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $1,923,745 in grants to Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc?
- THE SUMMERLEE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $305,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of the Texas Historical Commission 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 36 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