Texas · Nonprofit
MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston
MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $649,344 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($475,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $649k
- Net assets
- $17M
What MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston does
Mission
MATCH enriches and strengthens Houston by making it easier to create and experience art, performance and creative expression to foster opportunities for discovery and connection. See Schedule O(Continued from Part III) We break down historical barriers by providing high-quality, professional spaces and production support at subsidized rates. As a model for fostering community expression, we present the most representative and diverse programming in the city.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
MATCH is a multi-venue, multi-purpose facility in Houston's Midtown neighborhood for small and mid-sized arts organizations. The MATCH complex provides a unique and extremely valuable forum for artists and organizations to interact, collaborate, and share effective practices. This complex brings an array of small and mid-sized arts organizations together under one roof and provides a place for audiences to enjoy a wide selection of arts events. Furthermore, it serves as a catalyst for the revitalization of the surrounding community. During the 2025 fiscal year, MATCH rented performance space to approximately 236 arts organizations and office space to 22 arts organizations. MATCH also provides box office (ticketing) services to certain of the organizations performing at MATCH.
$2,115,779 spent$1,327,940 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,115,779.
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 2018 to 2019, from $24M to $23M (−5%).
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: 2021 79% · 2022 31% · 2023 40% · 2024 6% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $96k → $210k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center 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
MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 52% · 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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
14% of MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
99% of MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center 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. $39k 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
MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston holds deeper cash reserves 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
Organizations like MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston: 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 MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston?
- MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $649,344 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($475,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $649,344 in grants to MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston?
- HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center 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.
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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 10 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