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SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC

SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,928 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC ($144,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$184k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$308k
Net assets
$37k
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Southeast Texas Arts Council Inc does

Mission

The southeast texas arts council is a nonprofit organization that promotes an appreciation of the arts and humanities in southeast texas by providing technical support and information services for other nonprofit organizations.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. Distribute and review applications for funding grants from arts organizations in southeast texas.

    $109,054 spentof which $35,000 as grants$1,339 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $109,054.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($194k) Expenses 100 ($188k) Net assets 100 ($35k)2018 Revenue 99 ($191k) Expenses 105 ($197k) Net assets 84 ($30k)2019 Revenue 102 ($197k) Expenses 102 ($192k) Net assets 98 ($34k)2020 Revenue 98 ($190k) Expenses 88 ($165k) Net assets 170 ($59k)2021 Revenue 109 ($210k) Expenses 106 ($200k) Net assets 199 ($70k)2022 Revenue 97 ($187k) Expenses 108 ($204k) Net assets 152 ($53k)2023 Revenue 95 ($184k) Expenses 107 ($200k) Net assets 106 ($37k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (95)Expenses (107)Net assets (106)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 2018 to 2019, from $71k to $34k (−52%).

$35k
$71k
$34k
$67k
$70k
$55k
$38k
2017201820192020202120222023
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 50% · 2018 51% · 2019 54% · 2020 47% · 2021 35% · 2022 40% · 2023 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

72% of SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
−$5k
’18
$5k
’19
$25k
’20
$10k
’21
−$16k
’22
−$16k
’23
2.1
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.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed19191924272820
Joined·+0+4+11+8+1+2
No longer listed·0465010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $22k → $45k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC’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

SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47% 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 SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC.

47%
largest funder
96%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 50% · 2022 54% · 2023 56% — 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.

Where its funders are

SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.

NE
LA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

54% of spending goes to programs.

Program 54%Management 34%Fundraising 11%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC: 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 SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC?
SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,928 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC ($144,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $307,928 in grants to SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC?
FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $144,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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