Texas · Nonprofit
OLD JAIL ART CENTER
OLD JAIL ART CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,980,236 to it, the largest being THE CHARLES E JACOBS FOUNDATION ($1,205,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Old Jail Art Center does
Mission
The Old Jail Art Center broadens engagement with visual art and culture through exhibitions, education, and preservation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The ojac serves as a fine art museum that provides exhibition and related education programming to visitors throughout a large region of west-central texas as well as the state and country beyond. In 2024 the ojac had approximately 6,223 physical visitors. Education programs served over 4,000 k-12 students services. In addition, more than 2,080 adult, teacher and family audiences were served through take-home and programs. The ojac is open to the general public tuesday through saturday 11 to 5 pm to view exhibitions and participate in free programs.
$723,914 spent$9,798 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe ojac offers scholarships to high school graduates and those pursuing a college degree in art related fields.
$3,000 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $726,914.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $26M to $29M (+12%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Austin Sherwood
Chair and trustee
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $68k → $448k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 OLD JAIL ART CENTER’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
OLD JAIL ART CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 40% · 2019 42% · 2020 29% · 2021 36% · 2022 47% · 2023 56% — 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
45% of OLD JAIL ART CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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 OLD JAIL ART CENTER's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $626k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding OLD JAIL ART CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $92k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$92k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like OLD JAIL ART CENTER
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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 OLD JAIL ART CENTER: 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 OLD JAIL ART CENTER?
- OLD JAIL ART CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,980,236 to it, the largest being THE CHARLES E JACOBS FOUNDATION ($1,205,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OLD JAIL ART CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,980,236 in grants to OLD JAIL ART CENTER, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OLD JAIL ART CENTER?
- THE CHARLES E JACOBS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,205,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OLD JAIL ART CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing