Texas · Nonprofit
TEXAS CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY INSTITUTE
TEXAS CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,514 to it, the largest being TEXAS CIVIL WAR MUSEUM INC ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $101k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $115k
What Texas Civil War Living History Institute does
Mission
Civil War historical education and living history
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Supported the following public living history events with volunteers and living history equipment: The Battle of Jefferson, Jefferson TX ) & The Battle of Honey Springs, Honey Springs Battlefield, Checotah OK. The numbers for the approximate number of viewers from the public can be found through each event's sponsoring organization.
$0 spentProvided a volunteer speaker with living history equipment to support a "Civil War Day" program at Union 8th Grade Center in Broken Arrow, OK. Approximate number of students served: 1,185.
$0 spentSupported the final phases of the closing of The Texas Civil War Museum (also a 501(c)(3) non-profit) by providing volunteers for interpretive talks, docent services, and artifact packing. 2025 work included final packing of artifacts.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Collin Jefferson
President and Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $11 → $812.
1 of 3 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 TEXAS CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY INSTITUTE’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
TEXAS CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 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.
Where its funders are
96% of TEXAS CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68 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 CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY INSTITUTE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 TEXAS CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY INSTITUTE: 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 TEXAS CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY INSTITUTE?
- TEXAS CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,514 to it, the largest being TEXAS CIVIL WAR MUSEUM INC ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEXAS CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $104,514 in grants to TEXAS CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY INSTITUTE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY INSTITUTE?
- TEXAS CIVIL WAR MUSEUM INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY INSTITUTE 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 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