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· Public charity
ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc
To be Texas' foremost champion of individual rights & freedoms through education & litigation.
$23k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
1
Communities
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
0173% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Community Improvement$86kHousing & Shelter$49kHuman Services$28kReligion$25kEducation$15kEmployment$10kCrime & Legal$10kArts & Culture$5kOther$86k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
transgender
2020
voter engagement
2021
voter engagement
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$7,038
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Kindred Stories$7,038
- Texas Democracy Foundation$5,145
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22% — the area typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc
We are texas lawyers for texas communities, boldly serving the movement for equality and justice in and out of the courts.
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Texas State Lulac
The mission of lulac is to advance the economic condition political housing health civil rights of the hispanic population
Human Services
3
Centro De Trabajadores Unidos
Educate workers on their rights,develope leadership in the immigrant community, organize and support al workers as they fight for their rights in the workplace and for changing policies policies that increase standards for all workers.
Human Services
4
La Comunidad Inc
Legal, immigration and community organizing
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5
Ufw Foundation
The ufw foundation's mission is to empower communities to ensure human dignity.
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6
Houston Hispanic Forum
Empower and inspire the success of the large and fast-growing hispanic community in the greater houston area thereby strengthening the entire community.
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7
Council On Regional Economic
To facilitate the formation and development of a strategically sustainablehighly skilled regional workforce with emphasis on hispanic demographic andeconomy capable of meeting market demand and competition for the greaterpaso del norte…
Crime & Legal
8
Pueblo Unido Cdc
To address the needs and problems of distressed rural communities through a strategic plan to utilize existing resources and create new opportunities with the collaboration of community members to achieve social change.
Housing & Shelter
9
Inquilinos Unidos
Dedicated to empowering low-income tenants through community organizing, education and advocacy to fight for safe, decent and affordable housing in Los Angeles.
Unclassified
10
Las Clinicas Del Norte Inc
Provide comprehensive, preventative and primary health care services to include medical, dental and behavioral services that are accessible, affordable, culturally sensitive and compassionate to the residents of el rito, ojo caliente,…
Health
11
El Pueblo
El Pueblo will provide a full range of legal services and other support services to low-income immigrants seeking family reunification, citizenship, and protection from persecution and violence.
Human Services
12
Teatro Hispano De Dallas
Teatro Dallas is committed to the cultural empowerment of the Latino community by representing our varied experiences, voices, and artistic expressions. Through high quality theatrical programming Teatro Dallas employs the power of theater…
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centro Del Obrero Fronterizo Inc and the most unlike its peers is Urban Research and Resource Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$100,933Community Improvement$85,500Housing & Shelter$49,000Human Services$28,000Religion$25,000Education$15,000Employment$10,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds La Union Del Pueblo Entero ↗
- Who funds Proyecto Azteca ↗
- Who funds Texas Impact Education Fund ↗
- Who funds Brownsville Comm Health Ctr ↗
- Who funds Proyecto Juan Diego ↗
- Who funds Urban Research & Resource Ctr ↗
- Who funds Transgender Education Ntwk TX ↗
- Who funds Proyecto Vida Digna ↗
- Who funds Adults & Youth Dev Assoc ↗
- Who funds Centro Obrero del Fronterizo ↗
- Who funds Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds Texas Democracy Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
NEO Philanthropy IncNY17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Proyecto Azteca Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Marguerite Casey Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Tides Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Proyecto Azteca.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~15 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 742609516 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Proyecto Azteca, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 15 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc?
Find your warmest path to ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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