Texas · Nonprofit
MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY
MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,341 to it, the largest being The JE and LE Mabee Foundation Inc ($100,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY is better cushioned than half of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- McAllen Chamber of Commerce Inclocal
- Texas Historical Foundationportfolio match
- Summerfield G Roberts Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 43% · 2018 49% · 2019 35% · 2020 44% · 2021 25% · 2022 41% · 2023 37% · 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $110k → $45k.
2 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY’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 SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 39% · 2019 43% · 2020 63% · 2021 32% · 2022 30% · 2023 44% — 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
64% of MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
100% of MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- McAllen Chamber of Commerce InclocalTX · funds 194 organizations near you
- Texas Historical Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Summerfield G Roberts Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stribling Funding Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Collins Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Still Water Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Myriad Consulting and Training Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Kansas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Historical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Candelaria Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The NBK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Tobin Endowmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY?
- MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,341 to it, the largest being The JE and LE Mabee Foundation Inc ($100,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $465,341 in grants to MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY?
- The JE and LE Mabee Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing