Texas · Nonprofit
HISTORIC SOUTHSIDE INCORPORATED
HISTORIC SOUTHSIDE INCORPORATED (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $758,354 to it, the largest being RAINWATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($459,163). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $573k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $758k
- Net assets
- $125k
What Historic Southside Incorporated does
Mission
Historic Southside, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the ongoing redevelopment of Fort Worth's Near Southside as a vibrant, urban, mixed-use neighborhood. This is accomplished through the production of public cultural events, and the implementation of targeted initiatives that invest in public spaces; promote the arts and historic preservation; expand housing choices; and initiate new community partnerships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community Events - Providing free, safe activities and promoting public spaces for the Near Southside community. HSI produces the annual ArtsGoggle festival, the Friday on the Green and Lost 'N Sound live music series, and Open Streets community events. ArtsGoggle began in 2002 as an indoor gallery night and has grown into a street festival that spans a mile of Near Southside's prominent Magnolia Avenue. Highlighting local artists, this family-friendly event hosts more than 1,000 visual artists, 50 musical performances, artistic displays of every kind, food, drink, and fun for everyone. ArtsGoggle attracts over 80,000 visitors to the Near Southside. Friday on the Green is a free, community concert series produced annually in the spring/fall at the Magnolia Green park. Open Streets is a 6-hour annual event that closes Magnolia Avenue to vehicles and opens the streets for cyclists, scooters, strollers, food trucks, dog walkers, skateboarders, yoga classes, face painters and free activities hosted by local businesses. Open Streets has grown to be one of the Near Southside's most beloved community events with attendance in the thousands and more than 150 community partners providing…
$358,393 spent$124,842 earned by the program62% of program spendingPublic Space Beautification - Creating special places for people is an essential component of the Near Southside's revitalization and continued community development. Public space projects in 2023 included continued renovation and improvement of the South Main MicroPark and the South Main Squeeze pedestrian plaza, two active social and leisure spaces for visitors to South Main Village. As a complement to these outdoor public space improvements, the organization also led a wide range of public art exhibitions and educational programs at The Pool, a community art gallery on 8th Avenue and a primary focus of our Art South initiative.
$82,226 spent$3,897 earned by the program14% of program spendingSummer Swim Program - Each year HSI administers a grant from the Rainwater Charitable Foundation which provides funding for structured swimming lessons through the City of Fort Worth Parks and Recreation Department's Mobile Recreation Summer Day Camp. Historic Southside, Inc. receives a fee of 10% for its services administering the program. In 2023, several hundred swimmers participated in the program.
$133,781 spent23% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $574,400.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $832k to $250k (−70%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Michael Sanborn
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $103k → $134k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $40k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax). These are real filings, and they are not money HISTORIC SOUTHSIDE INCORPORATED raised.
From the IRS filings of HISTORIC SOUTHSIDE INCORPORATED’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 SOUTHSIDE INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 85% · 2021 68% · 2022 73% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
70% of HISTORIC SOUTHSIDE INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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.
Organizations like HISTORIC SOUTHSIDE INCORPORATED
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
- Fort Worth South Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HISTORIC SOUTHSIDE INCORPORATED?
- HISTORIC SOUTHSIDE INCORPORATED (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $758,354 to it, the largest being RAINWATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($459,163). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORIC SOUTHSIDE INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $758,354 in grants to HISTORIC SOUTHSIDE INCORPORATED, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC SOUTHSIDE INCORPORATED?
- RAINWATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $459,163 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC SOUTHSIDE INCORPORATED 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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