Texas · Nonprofit
HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT
HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT (Texas) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,831,958 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,715,680). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $571k
What Houston Center for Contemporary Craft does
Mission
To advance education about the process, product and history of craft.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions - presented six major exhibitions showcasing various craft media including ceramics, fiber, glass, wood, metal and mixed media.
$586,838 spent$18,040 earned by the program44% of program spendingArtist in residence program - competitive awards to up to 10 artist per year for 6 to 12 month residencies which include a modest stipend, internet, overhead and individual studio space. Artists are required to open their studios 24 hours each week to interact with the public.
$340,138 spent25% of program spendingEducation and outreach - workshops, tours, afterschool, and in-school intensive programs. Free public activities such as demonstrations, family-day craft making activities and open galleries.
$281,784 spent$38,857 earned by the program21% of program spendingCraft exhibit and sales gallery that advances education about craft by displaying crafts and providing information about the artistic process and the craftspersons.
$130,988 spent$16,469 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,339,748.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $1.8M (+76%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 7% · 2020 10% · 2021 12% · 2022 7% · 2023 9% · 2024 5% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Leila Cartier
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $565k → $1.2M.
8 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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: $592k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Houston Arts Alliance). These are real filings, and they are not money HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT raised.
From the IRS filings of HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. 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
HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 48% · 2019 45% · 2020 44% · 2021 32% · 2022 29% · 2023 39% — 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 HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
84% of HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 28 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $120k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$120k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
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 HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT: 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 HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT?
- HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT (Texas) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,831,958 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,715,680). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $7,831,958 in grants to HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,715,680 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT 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 53 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing