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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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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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 (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 its 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
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.

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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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3
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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5
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizen Action of New York Inc; 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 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. 16 of the 20 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetFUTURE NOW ACTION: $125,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBATTLE BORN COLLECTIVE: $125,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFor West Virginia's Future Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

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

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 Ground Game Texas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ground Game Texas. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 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.

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