Texas · Nonprofit
TEXAS LETTERING ARTS COUNCIL
TEXAS LETTERING ARTS COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $165 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($165). 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 FY2023
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $165
- Net assets
- $50k
What Texas Lettering Arts Council does
Mission
The Texas Lettering Arts Council seeks to educate and train children and adults about the history if written language, handwriting and the calligraphic lettering arts which promotes literacy while building self-esteem and encouraging creativity and imagination.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
JAN 2023Southwest Calligraphy Conference -Name Badges & Door Tags - 01-20, 2023
FEB 2023Letters California Style support - Program Name Tags - 02-17-19, 2023
MAR 2023Tech Hosting Hybrid Meetings - 03-05, 2023 - OnlineGunnlauger SE Briem Report Publication - 03-06, 2023
APR 2023Hybrid Workshop Parallel Pen Class, Maitland, FL - 04-16, 2023Tech Hosting for Calligraphy Guilds - 04-15, 2023 - Online
MAY 2023Creativity Camp - 05-4-7, 2023Tech Hosting for Calligraphy Guilds - 05-8, 2023 - OnlineRoman Holiday Incentive Program - 05-10, 2023 - OnlineTool2Type Workshop - 05-2-23, 2023
JUN 2023Roman Holiday Incentive Program - 06-10, 2023 - OnlineIllumitangles Program 06-14, 2023Creativity Camp Retreat- 06-15-18, 2023Split Nib Calligraphy - 06-22, 2023
JUL 2023The Playful Pen - 07-05, 2023Tech Hosting for Calligraphy Guilds - 07-09, 2023 OnlineRoman Holiday Incentive Program - 07-10, 2023 - Online
AUG 2023Roman Holiday Incentive Program - 08-10, 2023 - OnlineArtful Journal Retreat - 08-10-13, 2023Lettering for Holiday Projects - Program Coaching - 08-15, 2023 OnlineGeometric Italic Class & Lecture - 08-30, 2023Patterns & Polyhedrons - 08-27-23
SEP 2023Tangled Tetrahedrons - 09-3, 2023Roman Holiday Incentive Program - 09-10, 2023 - OnlinePelikan Hub Meet Up - 09-22, 2023 - Pen VideoDecorative Tool Caddy - 09-09, 2023Blackletter Basics - 09-13, 2023Blackletter Majuscules Basics - 09-20, 2023Blackletter Calligraphy Layout - 09-27, 2023Boo Tangles Witches Hat Make & Take - 09-30, 2023
OCT 2023Beautiful Blackletter Basics - 10-4, 2023Roman Holiday Incentive Program - 10-10, 2023 - OnlineBoo Tangles Witches Hat Make & Take - 10-18, 2023Tech Hosting for Calligraphy Guilds - 10-24, 2023 OnlineLettering for Holiday Projects - 10-25-27, 2023 - Online
NOV 2023Creative Arts Fine Arts - Practice Time & Open Studio - 11-03, 2023Tech Hosting for Calligraphy Guilds - 11-05, 2023 - OnlineRoman Holiday Incentive Program - 11-10, 2023 - OnlineScribes of Central Florida - Website & Program support 11-11, 2023
DEC 2023Roman Holiday Incentive Program - 12-10, 2023
The 12 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $22k to $91k (+314%).
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.
100% of TEXAS LETTERING ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $32 → $36.
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 LETTERING ARTS COUNCIL’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 LETTERING ARTS COUNCIL'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. $165 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 LETTERING ARTS COUNCIL has grown faster than half of the 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like TEXAS LETTERING ARTS COUNCIL
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TEXAS LETTERING ARTS COUNCIL?
- TEXAS LETTERING ARTS COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $165 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($165). 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 LETTERING ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $165 in grants to TEXAS LETTERING ARTS COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS LETTERING ARTS COUNCIL?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $165 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS LETTERING ARTS COUNCIL 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), 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