Texas · Nonprofit
PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME
PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,955,984 to it, the largest being ABELL-HANGER FOUNDATION ($1,519,225). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $51M
What Permian Basin Petroleum Museum Library and Hall of Fame does
Mission
We will share the petroleum and energy story and its impact on our lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The permian basin petroleum museum, library and hall of fame was organized to procure, care for, preserve and display objects related to the petroleum, energy and transportation industries. In this regard, the museum provides interior and exterior exhibits related to the petroleum, energy and transportation industries along with educational programs and maintains archives available for research.
$2,328,339 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,328,339.
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 $46M to $49M (+6%).
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 16% · 2021 12% · 2022 12% · 2023 11% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $22k → $208k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $91k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities Foundation of Texas Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME raised.
From the IRS filings of PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME’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
PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 59% · 2019 78% · 2020 89% · 2021 71% · 2022 65% · 2023 41% — 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
40% of PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
99% of PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $289k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME?
- PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,955,984 to it, the largest being ABELL-HANGER FOUNDATION ($1,519,225). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,955,984 in grants to PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME?
- ABELL-HANGER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,519,225 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME 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 14 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