Texas · Nonprofit
TEXAS ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC
TEXAS ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $91 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($91). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $91
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Texas Art Education Association Inc does
Mission
To promote quality visual arts education in Texas by promoting visual arts education as an integral part of the curriculum through professional development of knowledge and skills, representation of the arts educators of Texas, service and leadership opportunities, and research and development of policies and decisions relative to practices and directions in visual arts education; to sustain and advance professional development; to encourage and promote the advancement of knowledge and skills.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Visual Art Scholastic Event (VASE) Program VASE recognizes exemplary student achievement in the visual arts by providing art students and programs a standard of excellence in which to achieve. VASE is the only art event of its kind in the nation. Students are provided the opportunity to bring artworks created in their art classes to their regional event where they are interviewed at an in-person event by a certified juror (High School and Junior VASE Regional events only). The juror evaluates their work based on a standards-based rubric and their understanding of the art process involved in the creation and development of their artwork. All Middle School (JR VASE) and High School Regional VASE Program events are held as in-person events; TEAM (Elementary) events are virtual, with jurors evaluating artwork online. In 2025, the program hosted 28 regional High School VASE events with 32,518 registered entries, 20 regional Junior VASE events with 14,330 registered entries, and 20 regional TEAM events with 6396 registered entries. The 2025 State VASE Event was an in-person event, with 2,363 entries advancing to State VASE. 164 artworks were granted exemplary status with the coveted…
$842,760 spent$891,386 earned by the program59% of program spendingAnnual educational conference and related meetings and symposiums to inform and educate members, teachers, school officials and the public.
$274,374 spent$353,706 earned by the program19% of program spendingIn FY 2024-2025 the TX Art Education Foundation (TAEF) made monetary scholarship payments for these TAEA VASE events. TAEF also makes the payments for professional development grants and scholarships awarded to TAEA members.
$266,460 spentof which $40,400 as grants$321,685 earned by the program19% of program spendingNewsletter, STAR, professional journal TRENDS, and other publications inform and educate members, school officials and the public. The TAEA Website is used to inform and educate members, schools and communities as well as state and national publics.The TAEA social media sites are used to inform and educate members, schools and communities as well as state and national publics.
$54,613 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,438,207.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.2M to $2.4M (+11%).
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.
0% of TEXAS ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 of the last 9 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
Ricia Kerber-From 525
Int. Exec. Dir.
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $52 → $39.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 TEXAS ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 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.
Where its funders are
100% of TEXAS ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91 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
TEXAS ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC holds deeper cash reserves 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 TEXAS ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
- Texas Art Education Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TEXAS ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC?
- TEXAS ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $91 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($91). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TEXAS ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $91 in grants to TEXAS ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $91 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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