Texas · Nonprofit
Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston
Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $453,584 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($295,962). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $875k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $454k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston does
Mission
To advance, celebrate, and preserve Italian culture and heritage. We share our rich culture with everyone in our community by promoting the Italian language, history, art, music, and cuisine. We support deserving students with scholarships each year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
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Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Italian Language School: The ICCC considers the Italian Language School and its related activities essential to its mission. The Italian Language School has existed at the Cultural Center since 1989. The school offers 7-week sessions throughout the year for adults, kindergarten and children's classes, teen classes, and ongoing private & semi-private classes. Classes include grammar, conversation, a tourist guide to basic Italian, and a look at contemporary Italian life. The school also offers cultural education classes, including Art History, Italian History, Architecture, Mosaic workshops, and Opera courses. Classes are in-person and online at the Italian Cultural & Community Center. The Language School serves approximately 550 students a year.
$504,696 spent$434,332 earned by the program84% of program spendingScholarship Program: In 2025, the Italian Cultural & Community Center awarded $32,291 in scholarships to deserving young men and women. Since 1982, the ICCC has awarded $1,000 in annual scholarships to high school seniors, both new and renewing, based on merit and financial need. In 2025, two new scholarships were awarded to high school seniors, and five scholarships were renewed. After the 2025 high school senior-based merit and financial need scholarships were granted, this portion of the scholarship program was eliminated going forward. All previously awarded scholarships under this program will continue to be honored. See Schedule O.Since the inception of the Study Abroad program in 2020, we have awarded ten scholarships to eligible undergraduate, MBA, or Ph.D. students for study abroad programs in Italy, totaling $25,000. The program began in 2020 (overseas travel was unavailable in 2020/2021 due to COVID).Thanks to a donor, since 2023, we have awarded three one-time non-renewable $5,000 scholarships to college students currently enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate, or Ph.D. program, majoring or minoring in Italian Studies, concentrating in Italian History and/or…
$32,291 spentof which $32,291 as grants5% of program spendingCultural Events: Since 1988, the public has enjoyed continuous events highlighting Italy and Italians' vast global contributions. During 2025, programs were conducted to highlight Italy's culture, history, education, and traditions. The programs included wine lectures and tasting series focused on regional wines and the history of the wine-growing regions in Italy, a contemporary Italian Film Series during which films were shown monthly for five months, educational lecture workshops, and cultural classes. Total attendance for all the Cultural Events exceeded 2,750 people. Other events focus on Italian tradition, such as La Befana for the children.
$47,165 spent$31,380 earned by the program8% of program spendingItalian Mass: For most Italian immigrants to America, Sunday recalls morning Mass in Italian, followed by a family gathering for lunch. Since 1989, the organization has sought to preserve this tradition with a Mass in Italian once a month, followed by an equally well-attended pasta lunch. Mass is generally attended by about 20-50 people, many of whom are visitors from Italy or those whose native language is Italian and members of the Italian-American Community.
$13,604 spent2% of program spendingHeritage Book: To record history and preserve the memory of Italian-American life in the greater Houston area from the late 1800s to the present, the organization has underwritten the publication of two large, glossy-paged volumes, Houstonians of Italian-American Descent: Volumes I & II. The project was from 2001 to 2006. During that time, 100% of Vol. I printed books and 99% of the Vol. IIs were sold or donated to libraries and heritage organizations in response to requests for Vol. II continues to be filled, albeit with only a few copies left.
Library: The Library houses books in Italian for our Language School students & the community at large for research & study. Additionally, the library collection includes books about Italian-American history and authors of Italian-American descent.
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $597,756.
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 $1.8M to $2.0M (+10%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 9% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Erika Myers
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $12k → $70k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston’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
Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 97% · 2019 96% · 2020 92% · 2021 49% · 2022 49% · 2023 71% — 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
57% of Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
98% of Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k 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
Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston
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
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston?
- Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $453,584 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($295,962). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $453,584 in grants to Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston?
- Houston Arts Alliance is the largest funder on record, with $295,962 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston 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 16 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