Texas · Nonprofit
ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION
ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,823 to it, the largest being LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION ($6,090). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $301k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $946k
What Oral History Association does
Mission
To provide a means for effective cooperation among people concerned with documenting and preserving oral history and to disseminate information about oral history.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Member services, including publications including oral history review, history association newletter, and other member communications. Oral history review was made available to over 1,100 members or potential members through print and online versions of publications. In providing services the organization utilizes in kind services and facilities provided through baylor university through a cost-sharing grant with the university. The organization has also allocated in kind amounts for program services not included in this form 990 in the amounts of $101,424 and $9,880 for contributed salaries and use of facilities, respectively.
$155,452 spent$143,001 earned by the program60% of program spendingAnnual meeting provided for the benefit of its over 1,000 members, of which 463 attendees registered for the 2025 annual meeting.
$102,852 spent$81,102 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $258,304.
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 2020 to 2021, from $842k to $996k (+18%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 9% · 2022 60% · 2023 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
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.
Chief executive
Stephen Sloan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $531 → $202.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION’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
ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 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
ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $202 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.
Government funding ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $918k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$918k
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 ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: 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 ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION?
- ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,823 to it, the largest being LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION ($6,090). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $6,823 in grants to ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION?
- LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,090 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION 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