Texas · Nonprofit
HISTORIC DENTON
HISTORIC DENTON (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,108 to it, the largest being THE SUMMERLEE FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Historic Denton does
Mission
To promote historic preservation and restoration in Denton, TX, supporting owners of historic structures, focused on historic preservation and rehabilitation of neighborhoods while creating new Historic Resource Surveys in collaboration with the Texas Historical Commission followed with creating new National Register Districts focused on neighborhoods.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Texas Historical Commission accepted expanding the Denton Square Historic District. This created the opportunity to apply for a funded grant of $12,500 to create a short documentary film.
$10,000 spentof which $12,500 as grants37% of program spendingSupport for owners seeking to rehab historic buildings within National Register Districts grew rapidly. Historic Denton's service to provide the three application steps for owners seeking to gain the 45% tax incentive became a full offering. Five buildings gained Part 3/C approvals and the owners gained the 45% incentive. Four additional buildings were added as service projects and the Part 1/A applications were created and submitted by Historic Denton to the Texas Historical Commission and the National Park Service. This new service is developing to become self supporting.
$12,500 spentof which $12,750 as grants46% of program spendingCommunity involvement included Historic Virtual Tours, Home Tours and other community engagements focused on highlighting neighborhoods.
$4,562 spentof which $5,360 as grants17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,062.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5k to $30k (+485%).
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.
50% of HISTORIC DENTON’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $23 → $8k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HISTORIC DENTON’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
HISTORIC DENTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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 HISTORIC DENTON's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HISTORIC DENTON has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like HISTORIC DENTON
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.
Public support
100%
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 HISTORIC DENTON: 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 HISTORIC DENTON?
- HISTORIC DENTON (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,108 to it, the largest being THE SUMMERLEE FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORIC DENTON have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,108 in grants to HISTORIC DENTON, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC DENTON?
- THE SUMMERLEE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC DENTON 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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