Texas · Nonprofit
Old Red Courthouse Inc
Old Red Courthouse Inc (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,500 to it, the largest being MERCURY ONE INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $283k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $115k
What Old Red Courthouse Inc does
Mission
The Mission of the Old Red Courthouse is to inspire and educate people of any age within reach with cultural, economic, political and social history of the Dallas County area. The Museum showcases the various cultures that have created the International City that Dallas is today.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
First accomplishment -interactive Galleries that tell the incredible story of the City of Dallas and Dallas County, from its native history and first settlers to present day. Historically, Old Red had preserved and maintained thousands of irreplaceable artifacts, photographs, and documents. The museum was frequently host to Academic Scholars seeking insightful interaction with local history, social study and History teachers in more than 50 area independent school districts relied on Old Red as the research and teaching facility to help them bring the past to life for more thank 15,000 school students annually. The museum historically had served another 18,000 museum visitors. The museum was offering 11 history Labs focusing on Architecture, artifacts, Dallas-area inventions, transportation and the Justice System. We have now entered a new era with our new contract with the County of Dallas. We are building, for the County itself as the owners, brand new programs for virtual access and setting up a new virtual museum, along with a small in person exhibit, to be free to the public - continuing our focus on the rich History of the city of Dallas and Dallas County.
$149,362 spentof which $349,067 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $149,362.
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 $1.7M to $1.3M (−22%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2023 5% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Old Red Courthouse Inc’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. 4 of the last 5 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $9k.
From the IRS filings of Old Red Courthouse Inc’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 Red Courthouse Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 Old Red Courthouse Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Old Red Courthouse Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Old Red Courthouse Inc's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Old Red Courthouse Inc
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 Red Courthouse Inc: 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 Red Courthouse Inc?
- Old Red Courthouse Inc (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,500 to it, the largest being MERCURY ONE INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Old Red Courthouse Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $23,500 in grants to Old Red Courthouse Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Old Red Courthouse Inc?
- MERCURY ONE INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Old Red Courthouse Inc 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 3 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