Texas · Nonprofit
HUMANITIES TEXAS
HUMANITIES TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,276,943 to it, the largest being KATE MARMION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($375,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Humanities Texas does
Mission
The mission of Humanities Texas is educational excellence. Through programs that improve the quality of classroom teaching, support libraries and museums, and create opportunities for lifelong learning, we advance education throughout the state. As the state affiliate for the
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Humanities Texas administers a competitive grants program; creates and circulates traveling exhibitions; holds professional development workshops and summer institutes and produces educational materials to support texas schools; administers an awards program that recognizes outstanding teachers; develops publications, and maintains a website and online educational resources. Our programs strengthen texas communities by cultivating the knowledge and judgement that representative democracy demands of its citizens. These programs also contribute to texass thriving economy, culture, and civic life.
$2,805,653 spentof which $568,126 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,805,653.
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 2024 to 2025, from $12M to $14M (+24%).
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: 2018 78% · 2019 82% · 2020 87% · 2021 78% · 2022 92% · 2023 79% · 2024 79% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of HUMANITIES TEXAS’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. 0 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
Eric C Lupfer
Executive director
Board chair
John Phillip Santos
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $60k → $78k.
8 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 HUMANITIES TEXAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
HUMANITIES TEXAS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 53% · 2019 30% · 2020 51% · 2021 21% · 2022 27% · 2023 32% — 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
40% of HUMANITIES TEXAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% 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
86% of HUMANITIES TEXAS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $278k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
HUMANITIES TEXAS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HUMANITIES TEXAS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23.6M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$23.6M
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 HUMANITIES TEXAS
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 HUMANITIES TEXAS: 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 HUMANITIES TEXAS?
- HUMANITIES TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,276,943 to it, the largest being KATE MARMION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($375,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUMANITIES TEXAS have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,276,943 in grants to HUMANITIES TEXAS, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMANITIES TEXAS?
- KATE MARMION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMANITIES TEXAS 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 35 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