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ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties. (Continued on Schedule O) The Foundation will supply legal counsel to persons whose civil liberties…

$23k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2024
$12k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$7,038
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,038
Organizations funded a year
3 to 6
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$5.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationCrime & LegalEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$12k100%
FY20216$209k100%
FY20205$55k80%
FY20193$38kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Public Benefit$234kCivil Rights$23kReligion$15kEducation$15kHuman Services$10kCrime & Legal$10kArts & Culture$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
La Union del Pueblo Entero$75,00012%
Proyecto Azteca Inc$49,00016%
Arise Adelante$34,0001n/a
Texas Impact Education Fund$25,00024%
Brownsville Community Health Clinic Corp$22,00010%
Proyecto Juan Diego Inc$18,00011%
Urban Research and Resource Center Inc$15,0001n/a
Transgender Education Network of Texas$12,7501n/a
Proyecto Vida Digna$10,50014%
Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc$10,00010%
Ayuda Inc$10,00011%
Annunciation House Inc$10,0001n/a
Centro del Obrero Fronterizo Inc$10,00011%
Kindred Stories LLC$7,0381n/a
The Texas Democracy Foundation$5,14510%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLa Union del Pueblo Entero: $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetProyecto Azteca Inc: $49,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTexas Impact Education Fund: $25,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBrownsville Community Health Clinic Corp: $22,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProyecto Juan Diego Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetProyecto Vida Digna: $10,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTexas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAyuda Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCentro del Obrero Fronterizo Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Texas Democracy Foundation: $5,145 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Marguerite Casey FoundationWA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marguerite Casey Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Proyecto Azteca Inc · Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · Tides Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc

How much does ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc give?
ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc reported 2 itemized grants totaling $12,183, out of $22,569 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (75%), Civil Rights (7%), Religion (5%).
Who are ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: La Union del Pueblo Entero ($75k), Proyecto Azteca Inc ($49k), Arise Adelante ($34k).
Does ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marguerite Casey Foundation, NEO Philanthropy Inc, Proyecto Azteca Inc.
Where is ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc based?
ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $23k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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