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Taylor County History Center

Taylor County History Center (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $857,789 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE ($783,389). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$301k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$858k
Net assets
$193k
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What Taylor County History Center does

Mission

The Taylor County History Center exists to encourage and promote exhibits, publications, and activities of educational, historical, and social interest and benefit regarding Texas frontier history, with a focus on Taylor County and the town of Buffalo Gap.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operation and preservation of Buffalo Gap Historic Village.

    $121,925 spent$17,322 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $121,925.

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 ($284k) Expenses 100 ($241k) Net assets 100 ($87k)2019 Revenue 96 ($271k) Expenses 122 ($295k) Net assets 118 ($103k)2020 Revenue 88 ($251k) Expenses 106 ($256k) Net assets 113 ($98k)2021 Revenue 113 ($319k) Expenses 102 ($246k) Net assets 198 ($172k)2022 Revenue 84 ($238k) Expenses 97 ($234k) Net assets 203 ($176k)2023 Revenue 77 ($219k) Expenses 88 ($213k) Net assets 210 ($182k)2024 Revenue 89 ($253k) Expenses 105 ($253k) Net assets 210 ($182k)2025 Revenue 106 ($301k) Expenses 120 ($290k) Net assets 222 ($193k)
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Revenue (106)Expenses (120)Net assets (222)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 2020 to 2021, from $146k to $192k (+31%).

$159k
$184k
$146k
$192k
$191k
$196k
$193k
$205k
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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

82% of Taylor County History Center’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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
’18
−$24k
’19
−$5k
’20
$74k
’21
$4k
’22
$6k
’23
−$343
’24
$11k
’25
6.4
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.

Chief executive

Scott Clowdus

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2020191816161716
Joined·+4+1+0+0+0+4+1
No longer listed·4212032
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $159k.

1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 Taylor County History Center’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

Taylor County History Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

91% 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 Taylor County History Center.

91%
largest funder
97%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 33% · 2019 36% · 2020 50% · 2021 95% · 2022 84% · 2023 97% — 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

60% of Taylor County History Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

91% of Taylor County History Center'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. Of the $74k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.

TX

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

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $783k 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

Taylor County History Center is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve6.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Taylor County History Center

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

42% of spending goes to programs.

Program 42%Management 50%Fundraising 8%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Taylor County Texas · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Taylor County History Center?
Taylor County History Center (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $857,789 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE ($783,389). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Taylor County History Center have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $857,789 in grants to Taylor County History Center, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Taylor County History Center?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE is the largest funder on record, with $783,389 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Taylor County History Center 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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