Houston Arts Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 746073168
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8328756477
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,955
- Expenses
- $38,486
- Assets
- $293,841
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- Heidi Vaughan (Chair)
- Gus Kopriva (Vice Chair)
- Anne Caroline Fant (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Houston Arts Foundation is dedicated to the restoration and conservation of public art in Houston, Texas.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Houston Arts Foundation's (HAF's) mission is to restore and conserve public art in Houston. The Adopt A Monument Program (AAM) continues to provide funds for the care and maintenance of specific individual works of art in the HAF collection. With AAM, individuals, organizations, corporations, and foundations can choose a specific work of art from the HAF collection, and their contribution will go exclusively toward that work. In 2025, HAF oversaw and funded the conservation and restoration of thirteen iconic works of public art in Houston: "Brownie and "Evelyn's Friends" at the Houston Zoo, "Columbia Memorial and "Lyndon B. Johnson Monument" in Tranquility Park, "George Bush Presidential Monument and "James A. Baker III Monument" in Sesquicentennial Park, "Confucius", "Dr. Jose P. Rizal", "Field Marshall Ramon Castilla Y Marquesado and "Wilkenfeld Bench" at Hermann Park, "John B.Connally and "Neuhaus Fountain Coyotes" at Sam Houston Park, and "Tolerance" at Buffalo Bayou Park.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.4%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 89.6%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.7%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.64; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.4% of revenue deployed · 89.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.