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HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC

HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $947,526 to it, the largest being WACO FOUNDATION ($577,057). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$441k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$948k
Net assets
$2.6M
8/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 67%
01What it does

What Historic Waco Foundation Inc does

Mission

To collect, maintain, preserve, publish and interpret the heritage and history of waco, mclennan county, texas

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Preservation of historic homes within the waco area and promoting economic growth within the community;serves approximately 60,000 persons during the year.

    $287,010 spent$11,387 earned by the program
    78% of program spending
  2. Education programs regarding histories of events, places, and artifacts of the community and surrounding area

    $79,348 spent$598 earned by the program
    22% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $366,358.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($311k) Expenses 100 ($367k) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 114 ($354k) Expenses 103 ($378k) Net assets 99 ($2.3M)2019 Revenue 243 ($754k) Expenses 135 ($494k) Net assets 111 ($2.6M)2020 Revenue 130 ($406k) Expenses 95 ($348k) Net assets 111 ($2.6M)2021 Revenue 144 ($447k) Expenses 86 ($314k) Net assets 117 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 105 ($327k) Expenses 94 ($346k) Net assets 116 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 133 ($414k) Expenses 125 ($460k) Net assets 114 ($2.7M)2024 Revenue 142 ($441k) Expenses 136 ($499k) Net assets 113 ($2.6M)
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Revenue (142)Expenses (136)Net assets (113)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $2.3M to $2.6M (+12%).

$2.4M
$2.3M
$2.6M
$2.6M
$2.7M
$2.7M
$2.7M
$2.7M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 16% · 2022 10% · 2023 10% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

41% of HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$56k
’17
−$24k
’18
$260k
’19
$57k
’20
$133k
’21
−$19k
’22
−$46k
’23
−$58k
’24
7.4
months of
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.

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Listed1613121516171413
Joined·+5+7+4+3+5+3+2
No longer listed·8812463
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $46k → $107k.

2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 WACO FOUNDATION 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

HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC.

61%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 76% · 2019 88% · 2020 86% · 2021 62% · 2022 82% · 2023 72% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

62% of HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $364k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $583k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 21%Fundraising 6%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC?
HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $947,526 to it, the largest being WACO FOUNDATION ($577,057). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $947,526 in grants to HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC?
WACO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $577,057 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION 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 14 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