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Ground Game Texas

Ground Game Texas fights for democracy and social justice by working with organizers and activists to build issue campaigns across the state.

$289k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
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01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Public Benefit$2.7MCivil Rights$96kEducation$94k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $39k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$372k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Focus For Democracy$250,000
Block Power$38,769
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Citizen Action of New York: $24k → 14%Citizen Action of New York: $16k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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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Issue One Action

Issue one action is uniting republicans, democrats, and independents to protect our elections and fix our political system. we are committed to free, fair, and secure elections and reducing the influence of well-financed special interests…

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One for Democracy Action Fund

One for democracy unlocks resources to build a healthy democracy by fostering meaningful relationships between philanthropists and the democracy leaders of our time.

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Run for Something Action Fund

The organization's mission is to recruit, support and mobilize diverse young people to get involved in the civic life of their communities on a nonpartisan basis, especially state and local government. the organization is committed to…

Public Benefit
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Register America

The organization is founded for social welfare purposes, including assisting with voter registration and advocating for policies which lead to increased voter registration in the united states.

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The Act Now Project

To build innovative solutions to increase civic engagement, including through voter engagement and voter education initiativesamong voters abroad.

Civil Rights
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Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
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Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
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States United Action

States united action is a nonpartisan section 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization with a mission to protect our elections and our democracy. (continued on schedule o)states united action advances election protection, holds democracy violators…

Civil Rights
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Democracy Forward

See schedule o.this organization seeks to build collective power to defend and advance a vibrant democracy that benefits all people.

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Fair Elections Center

Fair elections center (fec) is a national, nonpartisan voting rights and election reform organization dedicated to safeguarding the future of our democracy through innovative efforts focused on voting rights and civic engagement. the…

Civil Rights
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American Workers for Progress

American workers for progress works to ensure that leaders at every level are focused on reducing barriers to job growth and addressing economic challenges to guarantee a better future for all americans.

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Voteamerica

The mission of voteamerica is to strengthen united states democracy by increasing voter turnout.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizen Action of New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is Caldwell - Hays Examiner. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER — $625,000 · OtherDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHERVOTE REV — $197,365 · OtherVOTE REVBATTLE BORN COLLECTIVE — $125,000 · OtherBATTLE BORN COLLECTIVEFor West Virginia's Future Inc — $100,000 · OtherFor West Virginia's Future IncCitizen Strong Action Fund — $78,000 · OtherCitizen Strong Action FundONE FOR ALL COMMITTEE — $51,000 · Other+3 more — $72,000 · Other+3 moreVOTE REV ACTION FUND — $595,000 · Civil RightsVOTE REV ACTION FUNDBLOCK POWER — $338,769 · Civil RightsBLOCK POWERFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND — $250,000 · Civil RightsFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND+3 more — $39,300 · Civil RightsFUTURE NOW ACTION — $125,000 · Public BenefitSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $100,000 · EnvironmentWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $93,500 · EducationWORKER POWER — $50,000 · Community ImprovementCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC — $40,000 · Human Services
Other$1,248,365Civil Rights$1,223,069Public Benefit$125,000Environment$100,000Education$93,500Community Improvement$50,000Human Services$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER — $625,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetVOTE REV ACTION FUND — $595,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBLOCK POWER — $338,769 over 3y, 97% of budgetFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBATTLE BORN COLLECTIVE — $125,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFUTURE NOW ACTION — $125,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFor West Virginia's Future Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $93,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWORKER POWER — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetP STREET PROJECT — $41,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC — $40,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPROGRESS ARIZONA — $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetUN-PAC ACTION — $21,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetORGANIZE ACTION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCaldwell - Hays Examiner — $6,800 over 1y, 3.9% of budget
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.

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.

Sixteen Thirty FundTides FoundationNorth FundTides AdvocacyHopewell FundOur American Future A…All Hands on Deck Net…Oakw FundBright Future FundFuture Forward USA Ac…Way to Win Action Fun…Open Society Action F…
Sixteen Thirty FundDC27.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Foundation · North Fund · Tides Advocacy · Hopewell Fund · Our American Future Action · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Oakw Fund · Bright Future Fund · Future Forward USA Action · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc

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 organization Ground Game Texas 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.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 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.

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    How do I get to Ground Game Texas?

    Find your warmest path to Ground Game Texas through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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