· Private foundation
Judith Filler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS DEFENDER SERVICE | $20,000 |
| TEXAS DEFENDER SERVICE | $15,000 |
| FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS | $10,000 |
| JUSTICE LEAGUE CIC | $8,000 |
| TEXAS COALITION TO ABOLISH THE DEAT | $7,500 |
| SAVE JEFF WOOD CAMPAIGN | $6,472 |
| ABA FUND FOR JUSTICE AND EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| TEXAS DEFENDER SERVICE | $5,000 |
| CLINTON YOUNG FOUNDATION | $3,655 |
| KIDS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY | $1,480 |
| TEXAS DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION MOVEMENT | $270 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +161% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TDTexas Defender Service6× · 2018–2025 · $184k · revenue +161%
- AVAfter Violence Project6× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +995%
- TCTEXAS COALITION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY7× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- PSPICTURE SOCIAL JUSTICE INCone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -37%
- PCPAC COMMUNITY CARES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- ALABOLITIONIST LAW CENTERone grant, 2019 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
Empowering Texans to fight pollution through sustained grassroots organizing campaigns that shift corporate and governmental policy.
Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…
Provides education to criminal defense professionals.
Death Penalty Action works to stop executions and abolish the death penalty through advocacy, education, and action.
Texas Gun Sense is a statewide nonprofit and nonpartisan organization advocating to prevent gun violence and other gun tragedies in Texas through education, partnerships, and policy change.
Texas Fair Defense Project's mission is to fight to end the criminalization of poverty in Texas. We envision a system of justice that upholds the dignity and civil rights of all people, regardless of income, race, or gender.
To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Healing Justice Project addresses the individual and community harm caused by wrongful convictions. We offer restorative programs to help people heal and conduct widespread education to improve our justice systems response on these cases.
EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Defender Service and the most unlike its peers is Clinton Young Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 Texas Defender Service ↗
- Who funds After Violence Project ↗
- Who funds TEXAS COALITION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY ↗
- Who funds PICTURE SOCIAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds CLINTON YOUNG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHAPE Community Center ↗
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.
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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 Judith Filler Foundation 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.
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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