Texas · Nonprofit
GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Texas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $959,612 to it, the largest being DIAN GRAVES OWEN FOUNDATION ($222,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $960k
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Gillespie County Historical Society Inc does
Mission
To manage the operations of the pioneer museum and the vereins kirche museums; to promote historical knowledge through educational events and activities; to hold stewardship of 13 historic structures, over 60,000 separate artifacts and archival materials dating from our founding in 1846 forward; to provide assistance and documentation for family research relating to 19th c. German immigration to the area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Restore, preserve, and manage 13 historical structures and interpretation at two museum sites that are open 6 days a week. Facilitate educational activities and exhibitions that teach the history of fredericksburg since its inception in 1846 and that of gillespie county since its inception in 1848.
$926,177 spent$326,810 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $926,177.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.8M to $4.4M (+15%).
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: 2017 12% · 2018 9% · 2020 10% · 2021 17% · 2022 11% · 2023 11% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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. 1 of the last 7 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 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $74k → $299k.
4 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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
GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
28% 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 GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 46% · 2019 42% · 2020 37% · 2021 39% · 2022 30% · 2023 35% — 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
50% of GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
74% of GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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. $209k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC is better cushioned than half 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 GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Texas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $959,612 to it, the largest being DIAN GRAVES OWEN FOUNDATION ($222,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $959,612 in grants to GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- DIAN GRAVES OWEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $222,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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.
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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 25 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