Texas · Nonprofit
Frontier Times Museum
Frontier Times Museum (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,173 to it, the largest being FB DOANE FOUNDATION ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $362k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $126k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Frontier Times Museum does
Mission
The mission of the museum is to preserve and share the cultural heritage of Bandera County and the Texas frontier times.The museum serves the county and visitors through eclectic collections that tell stories through exhibitions and educational programs that promote Bandera County and its impact on the Texas frontier.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The museum hosts educational programs for area schools and home schooled students which include field trips and a Traveling Texas History Trunk program which are portable units that are brought to the schools to be used in the classroom to enhance school curriculum. The museum hosts cultural and historical programs for adults and children which include a free monthly musical program called Frontier Times Jamboree, Texas history lectures series, and art exhibitions. The museum provides a variety of displays that preserve and interpret the history of Bandera County and our western heritage, exhibits that highlight regional art, and children's interactive natural history and science exhibit.Total Donated Services (In-Kind) for 2025 amounted to $12,600
$140,867 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $140,867.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $388k to $819k (+111%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of Frontier Times Museum’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 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 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $17k → $18k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Frontier Times Museum’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
Frontier Times Museum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
33% 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 Frontier Times Museum.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 62% · 2022 66% · 2023 57% — 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 Frontier Times Museum's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Frontier Times Museum runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Frontier Times Museum
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 Frontier Times Museum: 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 Frontier Times Museum?
- Frontier Times Museum (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,173 to it, the largest being FB DOANE FOUNDATION ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Frontier Times Museum have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $126,173 in grants to Frontier Times Museum, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Frontier Times Museum?
- FB DOANE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Frontier Times Museum 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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