Humanities Texas
Humanities Texas is a public charity based in Austin, Texas, and the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). It supports humanities programs for public audiences and advances education through programs that improve classroom teaching, support libraries and museums, and create opportunities for lifelong learning.
Humanities Texas at a glance
In short: Humanities Texas gave $289K across 29 grants in 2025 (avg $10K), mostly in Texas. 82% of 2025 grantees were new. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- Annual giving (2025)
- $288,500
- -11.0% vs 2024
- Grants made (2025)
- 29
- +3.6% vs 2024
- Average grant
- $9,948
- -14.0% vs 2024
- Median grant
- $10,000
- Total assets
- $14,412,387
- +23.6% vs 2024
- New grantees (estimate)
- 82% first-time grantees (23 of 28, 2025)
- Primary geography
- Texas (100% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated October 2026. New grantees are estimated by matching recipient names across years (methodology).
How to apply to Humanities Texas
- Contact
Mailing address: 1410 Rio Grande St, Austin, TX 78701
Phone: (512) 440-1991
Website: https://humanitiestexas.org
Application details from Grantable's research on the foundation's public materials; confirm on its website before applying.
Who Humanities Texas funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 10 recipients in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was Don Harrington Discovery Center ($20K). Together the top 10 received $145K.
Grant Size Distribution
95 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 95 grants of 95 (100%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
Humanities Texas says it serves the entire state through grants, traveling exhibitions, teacher institutes, and other programs. All grant dollars itemized in its 2025 filing went to Texas recipients.
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 29 itemized grants.
Cities
Is Humanities Texas open to new grantees?
82%
first-time grantees, 2025
In 2025, 23 of 28 grantees (82%) were first-time recipients. First grants averaged $11K; repeat grants $7K. How we count
Medians: $10K first-time, $8K repeat.
- 4% of 2025 grantees were also funded in 2024. Method
Estimate from itemized grant lists in IRS Form 990 filings (2020–2025). Recipient names are matched across years, so a renamed or misspelled grantee can look new; grants to individuals are left out. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2020 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $289K (2025) to $2.8M (2022). In 2025 it made 29 grants totaling $289K.
Hatched bars: grants paid as reported on the IRS filing, which lists no individual grants for that year.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Don Harrington Discovery Center Amarillo, TX | Educaitonal | $20,000 |
| San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association La Porte, TX | Educational | $15,000 |
| San Antonio Festival of Books San Antonio, TX | Educational | $15,000 |
| City of San Antonio San Antonio, TX | Educational | $15,000 |
| City of El Paso El Paso, TX | Educational | $15,000 |
| Ranching Heritage Association Lubbock, TX | Educaitonal | $15,000 |
| El Paso Community College District El Paso, TX | Educational | $12,000 |
| Amarillo Symphony Amarillo, TX | Educaitonal | $11,250 |
| Remembering Black Dallas Dallas, TX | Educational | $10,000 |
| Asia Society Texas Center Houston, TX | Educational | $10,000 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $14,412,387 | $5,236,771 | $3,339,463 | $288,500 | 29 | $222,809 |
| 2024 | $11,664,160 | $4,648,253 | $3,995,208 | $324,080 | 28 | $248,171 |
| 2023 | $9,886,982 | $4,311,578 | $3,763,091 | $631,645 | Total only | $133,968 |
| 2022 | $9,240,948 | $5,604,154 | $5,529,454 | $2,832,456 | Total only | $141,651 |
| 2021 | $11,366,628 | $3,388,745 | $2,722,130 | $359,508 | 38 | $167,806 |
| 2020 | $9,920,951 | $4,003,511 | $3,549,524 | $832,716 | 82 | $93,753 |
"Total only": grants paid as reported on the IRS filing, which lists no individual grants for that year.
Research compiled by Grantable AI from public sources. Last updated October 2026.
Mission & Focus Areas
Humanities Texas describes its mission as advancing education throughout the state. Its programs include a competitive grants program, traveling exhibitions, professional development for teachers, educational materials, awards recognizing outstanding teachers, publications, and online educational resources. The organization also says its programs aim to cultivate the knowledge and judgment that representative democracy demands.
Its grants support public humanities programs by nonprofit organizations and institutions. Humanities Texas identifies subjects such as history, literature, languages, philosophy, ethics, and the history and criticism of the arts as humanities fields. Its major-grant descriptions include community programs, media projects, and planning projects.
Examples of grantees illustrate the range of organizations supported. The Don Harrington Discovery Center says it creates discovery experiences for learners across the High Plains. The San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield says it collects and preserves materials relating to Texas history and promotes study through exhibits, publications, and educational programs. The Ranching Heritage Association says it preserves and interprets the history of ranching and the livestock industry. The Asia Society Texas Center describes work across performing and visual arts, education and outreach, and business and policy.
Grantmaking
Humanities Texas administers a competitive grants program for humanities programs serving public audiences. Its 2025 filing lists 29 grants totaling $288,500. Grant amounts ranged from $5,500 to $20,000, with a median of $10,000. All listed grant dollars went to recipients in Texas.
Among the largest 2025 grants were $20,000 to the Don Harrington Discovery Center; $15,000 each to the San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association, San Antonio Festival of Books, City of San Antonio, City of El Paso, and Ranching Heritage Association; and $12,000 to El Paso Community College District.
The website describes major grants as competitive awards of up to $20,000, with average awards ranging from $8,000 to $12,000 and a one-to-one cost-share requirement. Eligible organizations include, among others, museums, libraries, cultural centers, historical associations, city and county governments, community colleges, and school districts. Applicants must have an active, publicly searchable SAM Unique Entity ID. The website says major grants support public humanities programming, including community, media, and planning projects. It reports that mini-grants and the fall 2026 major-grants cycle are paused; rural and exhibition grants continue.
Leadership & Key People
Leadership team and compensation from IRS filings
Humanities Texas is governed by a volunteer board. Officers and directors listed on its 2025 filing are Becky McKinley, past chair; John Phillip Santos, chair; Joy Ann Havran, vice chair; Sean Cunningham, treasurer; and directors Elizabeth Chapman, Yvonne Cormier, Thomas DiPiero, John Moran Gonzalez, Blair Labatt, and William Serrata.
Humanities Texas is led by Eric C. Lupfer, Executive Director on every filing since 2020; 2 of 28 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Eric C. Lupfer
Executive Director
On filings since 2020
40 hrs/week
$104K (2020) → $146K (2025)
John Phillip Santos
Chair
Director → Vice Chair, 2022
Vice Chair → Chair, 2024
On filings since 2020
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Blair Labatt
Director
On filings since 2020
No compensation reported
Ellen K. Ramsey
Director
On filings since 2020
No compensation reported
John Moran Gonzalez
Director
On filings since 2020
No compensation reported
Katharine Schlosberg
Director
On filings since 2020
No compensation reported
Thomas Dipiero
Director
On filings since 2020
No compensation reported
Todd Romero
Director
On filings since 2020
No compensation reported
Daniel J. Gelo
Director
On filings since 2021
No compensation reported
Walter Diaz
Director
On filings since 2021
No compensation reported
Elizabeth Chapman
Director
On filings since 2022
No compensation reported
William Serrata
Director
On filings since 2022
No compensation reported
Yvonne Cormier
Director
On filings since 2022
No compensation reported
Amanda S. Nobles
Director
On filings since 2023
No compensation reported
April Graham
Director
On filings since 2023
No compensation reported
Stacey Neal Combest
Director
On filings since 2023
No compensation reported
Trasa Cobern
Director
On filings since 2023
No compensation reported
Amy Earhart
Director
On filings since 2024
No compensation reported
Austin Dickson
Director
New on the 2025 filing
No compensation reported
Deborah Chadwick
Director
New on the 2025 filing
No compensation reported
Hilary Walker
Director
New on the 2025 filing
No compensation reported
Kathryn Santos
Director
New on the 2025 filing
No compensation reported
Kerry Reyna
Director
New on the 2025 filing
No compensation reported
Sally Prater
Director
New on the 2025 filing
No compensation reported
Yvonne Doerr
Deputy Director
On filings since 2022
40 hrs/week
$103K (2022) → $112K (2025)
Becky McKinley
Past Chair
Vice Chair → Chair, 2022
Chair → Past Chair, 2024
On filings since 2020
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Sean P. Cunningham
Treasurer
Secretary → Director, 2023
Director → Treasurer, 2024
On filings since 2020
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Joy Ann Weaver Havran
Vice Chair
Director → Vice Chair, 2024
On filings since 2023
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (26)
- Former: Alan Tully (2020–2024) — Director
- Former: Andrea Holman (2020–2024) — Director
- Former: Nancy Painter Paup (2020–2024) — Director
- Former: Orenthia D. Mason (2020–2024) — Director
- Former: Virginia Mithoff (2020–2024) — Secretary
- Former: Laura Wilson (2022–2024) — Director
- Former: Elizabeth Johnson (2023–2024) — Director
- Former: Carlos Kevin Blanton (2020–2023) — Treasurer
- Former: Chase Untermeyer (2020–2023) — Past Chair
- Former: Gina M. Spagnola (2020–2023) — Director
- Former: Reba Cardenas McNair (2020–2023) — Director
- Former: Maryse Jayasuriya (2021–2023) — Director
- Former: Hannah Temple (2022–2023) — Director
- Former: Joy Moore (2020–2022) — Treasurer
- Former: Daina Ramey Berry (2021–2022) — Director
- Former: Jim Clancy (2022) — Director
- Former: Elizabeth Crook (2020–2021) — Director
- Former: Michael L. Klein (2020–2021) — Treasurer
- Former: Amy M. Warren (2020) — Director
- Former: Caroline Castillo Crimm (2020) — Director
- Former: Edwin Dorn (2020) — Director
- Former: Hector Retta (2020) — Director
- Former: Jenni Hord (2020) — Director
- Former: Ricardo Romo (2020) — Director
- Former: Sibyl Avery Jackson (2020) — Director
- Former: Stephanie Tucker (2020) — Director
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2020–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2025 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $146K, to Eric C Lupfer (Executive Director). 2 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.
Frequently asked questions about Humanities Texas
How much does Humanities Texas give each year?
Humanities Texas gave $289K across 29 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $324K across 28 grants.
What is Humanities Texas's typical grant size?
Humanities Texas's median grant in 2025 was $10,000, and its average grant was $9,948, across 29 grants on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Organizations receiving their first grant from Humanities Texas that year got $11K on average.
Where does Humanities Texas give grants?
Humanities Texas gives mostly in Texas: 100% of the grant dollars itemized on its 2025 IRS Form 990 went to recipients there. The most frequent recipient cities were Houston, TX (5 grants), San Antonio, TX (4 grants), Amarillo, TX (3 grants) and Austin, TX (3 grants).
Does Humanities Texas give general operating support?
Not in 2025: none of the 29 grants with a stated purpose on Humanities Texas's 2025 IRS Form 990 were described as general or operating support. Recurring purposes include "Educational" (21 grants) and "Educaitonal" (8 grants).
Who are Humanities Texas's largest grantees?
Humanities Texas's largest 2025 grantees include Don Harrington Discovery Center ($20,000), Amarillo Symphony ($18,250 across 2 grants) and San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association ($15,000), according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. Together they received 18% of its itemized 2025 grant dollars.
How large is Humanities Texas?
Humanities Texas reported $14.4M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $5.2M.
What does Humanities Texas fund?
Humanities Texas describes its mission as advancing education throughout the state. See mission & focus areas ↑
How do I apply for a grant from Humanities Texas?
Humanities Texas has no public application process in the sources Grantable reviewed. Check humanitiestexas.org for current guidelines, or contact the foundation directly before submitting a request.
What is Humanities Texas's EIN?
Humanities Texas's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 75-1493438. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2020–2025.
Data last updated October 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings. Research dossier generated October 2026.
Data update history
(7)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS September 15, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS September 13, 2022)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS September 5, 2025)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS July 28, 2026)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS September 15, 2023)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS September 16, 2024)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024
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