Texas · Nonprofit
Witte Museum
Witte Museum (Texas) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,817,069 to it, the largest being TRIPLE DAWSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Witte Museum runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Incshared funderslocal
- Burnett Foundationportfolio match
- The Favrot Fundportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 42% · 2021 28% · 2022 6% · 2023 6% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of Witte Museum’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $453k → $2.4M.
12 of 121 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.6M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest San Antonio Area Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Witte Museum raised.
From the IRS filings of Witte Museum’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 funders by total. 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
Witte Museum has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 28% · 2019 43% · 2020 17% · 2021 11% · 2022 18% · 2023 11% — 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
43% of Witte Museum's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
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
96% of Witte Museum's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 121 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Incshared funderslocalTX · backs 60 organizations that share your funders · funds 76 organizations near you
- Burnett Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Favrot Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lyda Hill Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Saul Steinberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Still Water Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Circle Bar Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 48 organizations near you
- United Way of San Antonio and Bexar Countyshared funderslocalTX · backs 67 organizations that share your funders · funds 155 organizations near you
- Cb and Anita Branch Trust James L Drought Trusteeshared fundersTX · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Shield-Ayres Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- The John M O'Quinn Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- The Methodist Hospitalshared fundersTX · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Witte Museum receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $625k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$550k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$75k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Witte Museum
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Witte Foundation · exempt
- The Witte Title Holding Company · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Witte Museum: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Witte Museum?
- Witte Museum (Texas) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,817,069 to it, the largest being TRIPLE DAWSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Witte Museum have?
- IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $10,817,069 in grants to Witte Museum, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Witte Museum?
- TRIPLE DAWSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Witte Museum 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 121funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing