Arts Council of Brazos Valley
College Station, TX · EIN 74-1672466. Reported 58 grants totalling $1,664,023 to 26 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Arts Council of Brazos Valley, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A26Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 22% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 65% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $17,601. Half of what it reported fell between $9,000 and $37,000; the smallest was $1,803 and the largest $135,300. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The George and Barbara Bush Foundation | College Sta, TX | $371,559 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Brazos Valley Symphony Society | Bryan, TX | $310,632 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Msc Opas | College Station, TX | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Museum of the American G I Inc | College Sta, TX | $135,082 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Theatre Company of Bryan- College Station | Bryan, TX | $131,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History | Bryan, TX | $84,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Ballet Brazos | Bryan, TX | $79,350 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Brazos Valley Chorale | College Sta, TX | $59,080 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Friends of Chamber Music | Bryan, TX | $57,250 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Navasota Theatre Alliance | Navasota, TX | $49,102 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Stagecenter Inc | Bryan, TX | $39,509 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Children's Museum of the Brazos Valley | Bryan, TX | $39,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Childrens Museum of the Brazos Valley | Bryan, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fiestas Patrias of Bryan-College Station | Bryan, TX | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Washington on the Brazos Historical Foundation | Washington, TX | $20,906 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Brazos Valley African American Museum | Bryan, TX | $20,141 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| African American National Heritage Society | Bryan, TX | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Grimes County Chamber of Commerce | Navasota, TX | $11,760 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Brazos Educational Radio | Bryan, TX | $10,092 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Brazos Valley Art League Inc | College Sta, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Washington on the Brazos State Park Association | Washington, TX | $8,378 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Grimes Cty Chamber of Commerc | Navasota, TX | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Navasota Grimes County Chamber of Commerce | Navasota, TX | $4,095 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Unity Theatre Company | Brenham, TX | $1,861 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Brenham Childrens Chorus Inc | Brenham, TX | $1,823 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Troupe Over the Hill | Hilltop Lakes, TX | $1,803 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
15 of 26 (58%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- George Bush Presidential Lib
TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT - Brazos Valley Symphony Society & Orchestra
TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THE LOCAL ARTS COMMUNITY. - Navasota Theatre Alliance
TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THE LOCAL ARTS COMMUNITY.TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THE LOCAL ARTS COMMUNITY.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 16 of 26 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 19 | $413,983 | $12,750 |
| 2021 | 17 | $450,091 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 12 | $412,319 | $26,000 |
| 2023 | 10 | $387,630 | $22,021 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $17,601 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Arts Council of Brazos Valley's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 10 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 4180 Highway 6 South, College Station, TX, 77845.
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