Texas · Nonprofit
San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association
San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association (Texas) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,068,401 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($145,150). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association does
Mission
To collect and preserve significant historical materials that relate to the early history and culture of Texas and to promote the study of the history of Texas through exhibits, publications, and educational programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Museum and Monument: The San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association is located in the base of the San Jacinto Monument. The museum was established not only to honor those who fought for Texas in 1836, but also to re-visualize the history of Texas and the Spanish Southwest. It was created as a steward of history, and to promote friendship between Texas, Mexico, Spain, France and Latin America. Special treasures can be found from Mexican Texas, the Texas revolution, and the Republic of Texas. The museum also holds art and artifacts from the Spanish conquest, French Texas (a small collection), Spanish colonial life, the Mexican Revolution and the Anglo colonization of Mexican Texas. Texas's early statehood and the Civil War are also featured. Continued on Schedule O Admission to the Museum allows guest access to the Theatre: "Texas Forever!! The Battle of San Jacinto," with a repeat showing every hour on the hour, which tells the story of Texas history. This 35-minute production brings you from the earliest Spanish colonies to the day the West was won. Included in the film's 3,000+ images are 35 original paintings commissioned by the Museum just for "Texas Forever!!"
$441,623 spent$472,979 earned by the program84% of program spendingMuseum Shop: Available for sale at the museum's shop are items related to Texas history including books, maps, art, historic reproductions, and similar educational materials.
$71,266 spent$65,291 earned by the program13% of program spendingSan Jacinto Day: This dramatic battle reenactment is the centerpiece of the admission-free San Jacinto Day Festival, held on the grounds surrounding the San Jacinto Monument. Sponsored by the San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association, Texas Historical Commission and the San Jacinto Volunteers, the festival is a full day of music, entertainment, food, games and fun set amidst living history.
$10,253 spent$12,225 earned by the program2% of program spendingLibrary: The Albert and Ethel Herzstein Library began in 1939 with gifts from the descendants of Texas heroes. The library's holdings include books and other research materials relating to early exploration and statehood with an emphasis on colonial Texas as a part of Mexico, the Republic of Texas, and the early days of Texas statehood.
$5,536 spent$478 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $528,678.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.4M to $4.5M (+33%).
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 18% · 2021 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
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
Amy Rogers
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $62k → $165k.
7 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. 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
San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
26% 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 San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 41% · 2019 39% · 2020 18% · 2021 34% · 2022 25% · 2023 33% — 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 San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
97% of San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250k 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
San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association runs a healthier operating margin 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 San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield 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 San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association?
- San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association (Texas) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,068,401 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($145,150). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $1,068,401 in grants to San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $145,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield 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 42 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