· Private foundation
Judith Filler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| TEXAS DEFENDER SERVICE | $5,000 |
| ABA FUND FOR JUSTICE AND EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| CLINTON YOUNG FOUNDATION | $3,655 |
| KIDS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY | $1,480 |
| TEXAS DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION MOVEMENT | $270 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +129% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TDTexas Defender Service6× · 2018–2025 · $184k · revenue +129%
- 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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Judith Filler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Judith Filler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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