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ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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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.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $12,183, the rows itemized in this filing. The $22,569 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,386 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,038
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kindred Stories$7,038
Texas Democracy Foundation$5,145
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%Proyecto Juan Diego: $18k → 23%Adults & Youth Dev Assoc: $10k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Texas State Lulac

The mission of lulac is to advance the economic condition, political, housing, health & civil rights of the hispanic population

Human Services
2
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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3
Border Workers United

A community-based organization that develops leadership of workers to construct a movement of worker families in the texas borderlands.

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4
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
5
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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6
Mexican American Legislative Policy Council

To provide research and policy analysis to members of the mexican american legislative caucus. to advocate for latino rights and issues in the state of texas.

Public Benefit
7
Texas Latino Pride

Promote and Celebrate the diverse Hispanic/Latinx culture within our diverse communities

Arts & Culture
8
Texas Low-Income Housing Information Service

Our mission is to support low-income Texans efforts to achieve the American dream of a decent, affordable home in a quality neighborhood. We believe that Texas critical low-income housing and community development needs can best be solved…

Housing & Shelter
9
Texas Riogrande Public Defender

In rural counties with limited resources, Texas Rio Grande Public Defender delivers free, top-tier legal representation to indigent clients. Our diverse network of skilled advocates collaborates to defend the disadvantaged and protect…

Human Services
10
Workers Defense Project

Workers defense project is a member-led organization that organizes latine immigrant workers in texas to fight for dignity and respect.

Education
11
El Centro Del Barrio Inc

CentroMed is a network of integrated primary care clinics providing accessible services of superior quality.

Human Services
12
Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation

GNDC celebrates over 40 years of service to its community as high quality affordable housing provider to families from East Austin. GNDC also works for the improvement, revitalization and preservation of the residential neighborhood. GNDC…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centro Del Obrero Fronterizo Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARISE ADELANTE: $34,000 · OtherARISE ADELANTEBROWNSVILLE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC CORP: $22,000 · OtherBROWNSVILLE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC …TRANSGENDER EDUCATION NETWORK OF TEXAS: $12,750 · OtherTRANSGENDER EDUCATION NETWORK OF TEX…ANNUNCIATION HOUSE INC: $10,000 · OtherANNUNCIATION HOUSE INCKINDRED STORIES LLC: $7,038 · OtherKINDRED STORIES LLCCENTRO DEL OBRERO FRONTERIZO INC: $10,000 · OtherCENTRO DEL OBRERO FRONTERIZO INCTHE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION: $5,145 · OtherLA UNION DEL PUEBLO ENTERO: $75,000 · Community ImprovementLA UNION DEL PUEBLO ENTEROPROYECTO VIDA DIGNA: $10,500 · Community ImprovementPROYECTO VIDA DIGNAPROYECTO AZTECA INC: $49,000 · Housing & ShelterPROYECTO AZTECA I…PROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesPROYECTO J…AYUDA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAYUDA INCTEXAS IMPACT EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 · ReligionTEXAS IMP…URBAN RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER INC: $15,000 · EducationTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$100,933Community Improvement$85,500Housing & Shelter$49,000Human Services$28,000Religion$25,000Education$15,000Crime & Legal$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Foun…NEO Philanthropy IncProyecto Azteca IncValley Baptist Legacy…Greater Houston Commu…Communities Foundatio…Jacob and Terese Hers…Tides FoundationUnited States Energy …Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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