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PEDERNALES CREATIVE ARTS ALLIANCE DBA OKTOBERFEST

PEDERNALES CREATIVE ARTS ALLIANCE DBA OKTOBERFEST (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$1.3M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Pedernales Creative Arts Alliance Dba Oktoberfest does

Mission

To provide grants and scholarships to students from gillespie, county, texas, wishing to study music or art and to sponsor free summer musical evenings to the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Oktoberfest

    $1,013,512 spent$1,289,328 earned by the program
    72% of program spending
  2. Grants and memorials

    $354,677 spentof which $354,677 as grants
    25% of program spending
  3. Scholarships

    $45,600 spentof which $45,600 as grants
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,413,789.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($840k) Expenses 100 ($867k) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 100 ($837k) Expenses 101 ($877k) Net assets 97 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 5 ($40k) Expenses 35 ($305k) Net assets 78 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 106 ($894k) Expenses 92 ($800k) Net assets 85 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 135 ($1.1M) Expenses 118 ($1.0M) Net assets 93 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 157 ($1.3M) Expenses 141 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 161 ($1.3M) Expenses 158 ($1.4M) Net assets 98 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 159 ($1.3M) Expenses 166 ($1.4M) Net assets 91 ($1.3M)
'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (159)Expenses (166)Net assets (91)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.4M to $1.1M (−20%).

$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of PEDERNALES CREATIVE ARTS ALLIANCE DBA OKTOBERFEST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$27k
’18
−$39k
’19
−$266k
’20
$94k
’21
$111k
’22
$101k
’23
−$25k
’24
−$104k
’25
10
months of
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.

'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed101011109131010
Joined·+3+3+1+5+5+0+3
No longer listed·3226133
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PEDERNALES CREATIVE ARTS ALLIANCE DBA OKTOBERFEST’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.

Where its funders are

100% of PEDERNALES CREATIVE ARTS ALLIANCE DBA OKTOBERFEST's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PEDERNALES CREATIVE ARTS ALLIANCE DBA OKTOBERFEST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

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Questions and answers

Who funds PEDERNALES CREATIVE ARTS ALLIANCE DBA OKTOBERFEST?
PEDERNALES CREATIVE ARTS ALLIANCE DBA OKTOBERFEST (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PEDERNALES CREATIVE ARTS ALLIANCE DBA OKTOBERFEST have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,500 in grants to PEDERNALES CREATIVE ARTS ALLIANCE DBA OKTOBERFEST.
Who is the largest funder of PEDERNALES CREATIVE ARTS ALLIANCE DBA OKTOBERFEST?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PEDERNALES CREATIVE ARTS ALLIANCE DBA OKTOBERFEST 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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