Texas · Nonprofit
MIDLAND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL
MIDLAND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,300 to it, the largest being FMH FOUNDATION ($290,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $142k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $438k
- Net assets
- $146k
What Midland Storytelling Festival does
Mission
The misson of the Midland Storytelling Festival is to utilize story to entertain, stimulate, promote and develop the interest of the american public in the oral tradition of storytelling.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We were able to accomplish our mission through the following:our weekend festival was held virtually and in-person and featured nationally acclaimed master storytellers presenting the art of oral communication. They model for audiences of all ages the importance of communication while incorporating the role of reading and literacy. Programs are presented at schools, retirement organizations and the convention center as well as online through the use of you tube, basin pbs and social media.ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round: a black history month featuring stories in spoken word and music. Featured artists were dylan pritchett, master storyteller from newport news, va and west texas chapter gmwa gospel choir. This was the 4th annual event sponsored in collaboration with the museum of the southwest.story labs: a series of storytelling programs held during the first quarter of 2025 in collaboration with midland college library. Featured tellers presented an informal program of storytelling that was followed by facilitated intergenerational discussion from attendees about impresseions from the shared experience.
$121,397 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $121,397.
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 2019 to 2020, from $68k to $103k (+51%).
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.
100% of MIDLAND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $35k → $63k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 MIDLAND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL’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
MIDLAND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 64% — 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.
Where its funders are
78% of MIDLAND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MIDLAND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL has grown faster than half 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 MIDLAND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL
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.
Public support
100%
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 MIDLAND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MIDLAND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL?
- MIDLAND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,300 to it, the largest being FMH FOUNDATION ($290,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDLAND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $438,300 in grants to MIDLAND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDLAND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL?
- FMH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDLAND STORYTELLING FESTIVAL 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.
Play a game about who funds Midland Storytelling Festival →
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