Texas Historical Foundation
Dallas, TX · EIN 74-6013014. Reported 30 grants totalling $418,630 to 29 organizations across tax years 2023-2024, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 29 distinct organizations, with 24% 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. 17% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $8,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $8,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $100,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Wheelock School House | Wheelock, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas Archive of the Moving Image | Austin, TX | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Flower Hill Center | Austin, TX | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Warren Ferris Cemetery | Dallas, TX | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum | Cuero, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rutherford B H Yates Museum Inc | Houston, TX | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Indians in Texas - at the Spanish Colonial Missions | San Antonio, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Archer County Museum & Arts Center Inc | Archer City, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Austin Film Society Obo Sugarloaf Pictures LLC | Austin, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cavalla Historical Foundation | Galveston, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Documentary Arts Inc | Dallas, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc | Austin, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gault School of Archaeologicalresearch | Fredericksbrg, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gonzales Main Street Inc | Gonzales, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kovno Communications Inc | Berkeley, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Midland Historical Society | Midland, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Museum of the West Texas Frontier | Stamford, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rancho Alegre Radio | Austin, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Schreiner University | Kerrville, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas State Historical Association | Austin, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Tom Lea Institute | El Paso, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Williamson Museum Obo the Stones Are Speaking | Georgetown, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Shumla School Inc | Comstock, TX | $7,974 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Mercedes Library | Mercedes, TX | $7,883 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dr Pepper Museum and Free Enterprise Institute | Waco, TX | $7,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Preservation Texas Inc | Austin, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fort Worth Museum of Science and History | Fort Worth, TX | $6,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sam Houston State University | Huntsville, TX | $6,173 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Buildingcommunity Workshop | Dallas, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
1 of 29 (3%) received money in more than one year over the 2 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.
- Friends of the Wheelock School House
FOR THE CONTINUED PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF THE WHEELOCK SCHOOL HOUSE. 2024 DUDA PRESERVATION AWARD WINNERS. - Friends of the Warren Ferris Cemetery
THE CONSTELLATION OF LIVING MEMORIALS PILOT PROGRAM SEEKS TO REPLICATE THE SUCCESS SEEN AT WARREN FERRIS TO UNSERSERVED HISTORIC CEMETERIES THROUGHOUT DALLAS, BRINGING NEW LIFE BY INCORPORATING NATIVE TEXAS HABITATS TO THEIR GROUNDS. THE CONSTELLATION OF LIVING MEMORIALS PILOT PROGRAM SEEKS TO REPLICATE THE SUCCESS SEEN AT WARREN FERRIS TO UNDERSERVED HISTORIC CEMETERIES THROUGHOUT DALLAS, BRINGING NEW LIFE BY INCORPORATING NATIVE TEXAS HABITATS TO THEIR GROUNDS. - Flower Hill Center
CONTINUING STABILIZATION EFFORTS AT THE SMOOT HOUSE, AUSTIN, HOME TO THE FLOWER HILL CENTER. SECOND PLACE WINNERS OF 2024 DUDA PRESERVATION AWARDS. - Texas Archive of the Moving Image
FOR RESTORATION AND DIGITIZATION OF THEIR KPRC-HOUSTON COLLECTION, A COLLECTION THAT INCLUDES THE SOLE EXTANT FOOTAGE OF MANY SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL EVENTS AS WELL AS THE BELOVED AND LONGRUNNING EYES OF TEXAS SERIES. - Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum
EXPANDING GALLERY, EVENT, AND OUTDOOR SPACE AT CUERO'S CHISHOLM TRAIL HERITAGE MUSEUM. THIRD PLACE WINNERS OF 2024 DUDA PRESERVATION AWARDS. - Rutherford Bh Yates Museum Inc
PRESERVATION OF THE SIMMS COTTAGE, PART OF THE MUSEUM'S EFFORTS TO PRESERVE THE FORMER FREEDMEN'S TOWN IN HOUSTON'S FOURTH WARD. RECIPIENTS OF THE 2024 DIRECTORS' AWARD IN THE DUDA PRESERVATION AWARDS.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 of 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | $216,000 | $27,500 |
| 2024 | 24 | $202,630 | $8,000 |
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
98% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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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 $8,000 -- 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 Texas Historical Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 31 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 3003 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, TX, 75204.
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