Skip to content

Texas · Nonprofit

Historic Jefferson Foundation

Historic Jefferson Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,500 to it, the largest being F A Schluter 1818 - 1882 ($27,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$192k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$273k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Historic Jefferson Foundation does

Mission

Historic preservation

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Jeffersonian-Publication of Historic Sites and Places of Jefferson, Texas.

    $43,659 spent
    25% of program spending
  2. Candlelight Tours of Historic Homes During Christmas.

    $55,340 spent
    32% of program spending
  3. Improvements and Maintenance-Thomas Jefferson Memorial Park, Sterne Fountain, Civil War Powder Magazine. Support for Battle for Jefferson Reenactment.

    $73,629 spent
    43% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $172,628.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($65k) Expenses 100 ($59k) Net assets 100 ($137k)2018 Revenue 179 ($116k) Expenses 157 ($93k) Net assets 117 ($160k)2019 Revenue 202 ($131k) Expenses 166 ($99k) Net assets 142 ($194k)2020 Revenue 125 ($81k) Expenses 142 ($84k) Net assets 134 ($185k)2021 Revenue 190 ($123k) Expenses 151 ($90k) Net assets 119 ($164k)2022 Revenue 180 ($117k) Expenses 171 ($102k) Net assets 131 ($180k)2023 Revenue 215 ($139k) Expenses 205 ($122k) Net assets 158 ($216k)2024 Revenue 206 ($133k) Expenses 216 ($128k) Net assets 179 ($245k)2025 Revenue 295 ($192k) Expenses 290 ($173k) Net assets 198 ($273k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (295)Expenses (290)Net assets (198)

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 $255k to $164k (−36%).

$212k
$234k
$267k
$255k
$164k
$180k
$216k
$245k
$273k
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
$23k
’18
$32k
’19
−$3k
’20
$33k
’21
$15k
’22
$18k
’23
$5k
’24
$19k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Historic Jefferson Foundation’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Historic Jefferson Foundation's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Historic Jefferson Foundation

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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 Historic Jefferson Foundation: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Historic Jefferson Foundation?
Historic Jefferson Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,500 to it, the largest being F A Schluter 1818 - 1882 ($27,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Historic Jefferson Foundation have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $27,500 in grants to Historic Jefferson Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Historic Jefferson Foundation?
F A Schluter 1818 - 1882 is the largest funder on record, with $27,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Historic Jefferson Foundation 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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