Texas · Nonprofit
Museum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum
Museum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,206 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($196,064). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $389k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Museum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum does
Mission
The Printing Museum's mission is to ignite creativity, foster tangible self-expression, and champion the history and power of print.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
The Printing Museum comprises multiple galleries featuring permanent and temporary exhibitions. The selection of objects, artifacts, rare documents, facsimiles, and vintage presses on display in the museum's permanent collection galleries demonstrate how printing has significantly contributed to the development of civilization, transforming our lives to the present day. Exhibitions in 2021 included "New Directions: 2020-21 Artists-in-Residence," "Hope Is Action! Contemporary Letterpress Print Exchange, and "Heaven, Earth and the Underworld: Old Master Prints from the Permanent Collection."
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $1.4M (−7%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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 broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $53k → $91k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Museum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum’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
Museum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
53% 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 Museum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 53% · 2022 50% · 2023 69% — 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
81% of Museum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142 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.
Organizations like Museum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Museum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum: 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 Museum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum?
- Museum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,206 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($196,064). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Museum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $389,206 in grants to Museum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Museum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum?
- Houston Arts Alliance is the largest funder on record, with $196,064 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Museum of Printing History dba The Printing Museum 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 FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), and the filings of 7 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