Texas · Nonprofit
Power of Preservation Foundation
Power of Preservation Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $832,763 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($800,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $833k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Power of Preservation Foundation does
Mission
Education on historic preservation and rehabilitation
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Preserving Legacies: Educating custodians of World Heritage sites through hands-on training workshops on adaptation strategies and building a community of practice to sustain these efforts. 50 site custodians received training.
$500,000 spent45% of program spendingOn Houston Street: Highlighting historic Houston Street corridor through two large activations, Stars & Stripes on Houston and Holidays on Houston. Over 550,000 people attended these celebrations.
$82,000 spent7% of program spendingMellon Foundation Grant: Implementing Humanities in Place grant with partner organizations including ICLEI, the Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda, and the Built Buildings Lab.
$530,000 spent48% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,112,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $989k to $1.9M (+87%).
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: 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Power of Preservation Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $10k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Power of Preservation Foundation’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
Power of Preservation Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% — 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
Power of Preservation Foundation draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $299 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.
Against its field
Power of Preservation Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Power of Preservation Foundation
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Power of Preservation Foundation: 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 Power of Preservation Foundation?
- Power of Preservation Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $832,763 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($800,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Power of Preservation Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $832,763 in grants to Power of Preservation Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Power of Preservation Foundation?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Power of Preservation Foundation 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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