Humanities Texas
Austin, TX · EIN 75-1493438. Reported 66 grants totalling $683,588 to 58 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 Humanities Texas, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A700) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 58 distinct organizations, with 4% 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 big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,831 and $12,000; the smallest was $5,040 and the largest $25,052. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Witte Museum | San Antonio, TX | $30,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dr Pepper Museum and Free Enterprise Institute | Waco, TX | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Texas State University | San Marcos, TX | $25,052 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Holocaust Museum Houston | Houston, TX | $23,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Braniff Airways Foundation | Dfw Airport, TX | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dallas Holocaust Museum | Dallas, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bryan Educational Institute | Galveston, TX | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $16,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum | San Antonio, TX | $16,300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Harrison County Historical Society | Marshall, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas Folklife Resources | Austin, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Texas Public Broadcasting Association | San Antonio, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas at San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $14,960 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | Edinburg, TX | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma | Tonkawa, OK | $13,532 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Socorro Community Initiative | Socorro, TX | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Headwaters at the Comal | New Braunfels, TX | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grace Museum Inc | Abilene, TX | $12,550 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance Inc | Austin, TX | $12,235 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Panhandle-Plains Historical Society | Canyon, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Teas A&m International University | Laredo, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Native American Cultural Center | Austin, TX | $11,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trinity University | San Antonio, TX | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Western Art Foundation | San Antonio, TX | $10,588 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chinati Foundation | Marfa, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dallas Historical Society Hall of State Fair Park | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ellis County African American Hall of Fame Museum & Library Inc | Lancaster, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fort Worth Museum of Science and History | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History | Corp Christi, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Heritage Museum of Montgomery County | Conroe, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Maya Research Program | Tyler, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Museum of Printing History | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Museum of South Texas History | Edinburg, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Teatro De Artes De Juan Seguin Theatre of Arts Ofjuan Seguin | Seguin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Texas Book Festival | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Texas Shakespeare Festival Foundation | Kilgore, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of the Incarnate Word | San Antonio, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Webb County Heritage Foundation Inc | Laredo, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Schreiner University | Kerrville, TX | $8,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cultural Heritage Society of the Camino Real De Tierra Adentro | El Paso, TX | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Round Rock Isd | Round Rock, TX | $8,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Houston Climate Justice Museum | Houston, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Inside Literature | Austin, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lake Jackson Historical Association | Lake Jackson, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oak Cliff Records & Library | Dallas, TX | $7,950 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Community Development Corporation of Freedmens Town | Houston, TX | $7,831 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| City of Irving | Irving, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kilgore College | Kilgore, TX | $7,080 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| No 1 British Flying Training School Museum Inc | Terrell, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas State Historical Association | Austin, TX | $6,850 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Gregg County Historical Foundation | Longview, TX | $6,600 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Tom Lea Institute | El Paso, TX | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Young Audiences Inc of Houston | Houston, TX | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fort Bend History Association | Richmond, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mexic-Arte | Austin, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| San Antonio Conservation Society Foundation | San Antonio, TX | $5,420 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Center for Transportation & Commerce | Galveston, TX | $5,040 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
8 of 58 (14%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 of 58 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 | 38 | $359,508 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 28 | $324,080 | $11,144 |
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
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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 $10,000 -- 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 Humanities Texas'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 28 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: 1410 Rio Grande St, Austin, TX, 78701.
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