Texas · Nonprofit
Woodlands Waterway Arts Council Inc
Woodlands Waterway Arts Council Inc (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,051 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($25,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $77k
- Net assets
- $705k
What Woodlands Waterway Arts Council Inc does
Mission
To promote and educate people about the performing and visual arts as authorized by the texas non-profit corporations act.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Woodlands Arts Council events expanded this year. The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival welcomed over 20,000 visitors, of which 3000 were children, 200 artists, 45 performers, and 500 volunteers. The festival had a significant economic impact on the artists and the area. It offered educational opportunities for our patrons to learn about their techniques and enjoy the many performances throughout the weekend. The inaugural Texas Fine Craft Show presented a new opportunity for artists to showcase their handmade, functional creations to our patrons and support their small businesses.
$592,749 spent$945,726 earned by the program85% of program spendingIn 2024, The Woodlands Arts Council featured four free exhibits in the office space that we converted into a gallery in 2023. The Gallery serves as an opportunity for us to invite and educate the public about art, and to celebrate the talents of local artists. We provide the artist with an opportunity to share their technique with the public during an opening, which is free and open to the public. We have also used the space to showcase collections from local patrons. The gallery is open for free on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 1pm-4pm each week.
$101,903 spent15% of program spendingThe Young Makers Market was established in 2024. Artists ages nine through eighteen apply to sell their original artworks in a one-day mini-arts festival inspired by our flagship event, The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival. The 40-50 invited artists participate in a workshop that highlights entrepreneurship, marketing, product photography, and leadership, featuring a keynote speaker from the working artist community, hosted at Market Street, The Woodlands. Thousands of visitors come out to experience the market and support these young artists in our community. In 2025, we had an astounding 100 applicants for the September 2025 show.
The Because Art Matters committee is responsible for year-round programming at TWAC. Our critical aim is to impact Montgomery County arts educators, students, and organizations through programs that support their endeavors. The Student Art Scholarship program invites graduating seniors to submit a three(3) piece portfolio of visual and/or literary works of art and answer questions about their creative process. Students are then interviewed by a jury of arts professionals in the community to discern awards. In 2025, we awarded $60,000 to 14 talented students from across Montgomery County, including a $20,000 scholarship to a truly outstanding student, marking our 20th year as an organization. The microgrant program offers three groups arts educators, artists, and arts organizations the chance to apply for funds for projects with budgets ranging from $250 to $5,000. In 2025, we awarded $35,000 to visual arts applicants and facilitated an additional $43,000 in partnership with The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion for performing arts applicants, totaling $78,000 in grants. In 2024-2025, a total of $95,000 was awarded through our Student Art Scholarship program and Microgrant program.…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $694,652.
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 $502k to $822k (+64%).
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 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of Woodlands Waterway Arts Council 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. 4 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $8k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 Woodlands Waterway Arts Council 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Woodlands Waterway Arts Council Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 Woodlands Waterway Arts Council Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 67% — 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
75% of Woodlands Waterway Arts Council Inc's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 63% 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
66% of Woodlands Waterway Arts Council 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. Of the $26k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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
Woodlands Waterway Arts Council 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 Woodlands Waterway Arts Council 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
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Woodlands Waterway Arts Council Inc?
- Woodlands Waterway Arts Council Inc (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,051 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($25,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Woodlands Waterway Arts Council Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $77,051 in grants to Woodlands Waterway Arts Council Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Woodlands Waterway Arts Council Inc?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Woodlands Waterway Arts Council 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 8 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