Texas · Nonprofit
Houston Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District
Houston Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $530,074 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($400,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $488k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $530k
- Net assets
- $945k
What Houston Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District does
Mission
Through partnership, advocacy, and strategy, the members of Houston Theater District work collectively to ensure that the Theater District is an active, vibrant, destination for dynamic, world-class arts and cultural experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public Programs - The Houston Theater District produces public programming designed to deepen community engagement with the performing arts organizations within the district. Flagship initiatives include the Theater District Open House - an annual free event welcoming tens of thousands of visitors into the district's world-class venues featuring theater, music, and hands-on activities plus behind-the-scenes experiences for guests of all ages and 713Walks - a recurring guided walking series exploring the district on foot.
$185,998 spent68% of program spendingMarketing/Storytelling - The Houston Theater District advances awareness of the district and its member organizations through marketing, storytelling, and public communications, while also engaging community stakeholders to promote the performing arts as an essential component of Houston's cultural and economic life.
$66,401 spent24% of program spendingCollaboration - The Houston Theater District coordinates partnerships with Houston's other Cultural Districts and local arts organizations to strengthen the city's broader cultural ecosystem, share resources, and amplify collective impact across the region.
$22,708 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $275,107.
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 $504k to $786k (+56%).
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 79% · 2018 68% · 2019 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Houston Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Craig Hauschildt
Executive Director (Beg 12/24)
Board chair
Meg Booth
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $115k → $22.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $750k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Theater District Improvement Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Houston Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District raised.
From the IRS filings of Houston Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District’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
Houston Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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: 2017 87% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of Houston Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Houston Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
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
- Theater District Houston Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Houston Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District: 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 Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District?
- Houston Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $530,074 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($400,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Houston Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $530,074 in grants to Houston Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Houston Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District?
- HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Houston Downtown Improvement Inc dba Houston Theater District 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 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