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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.

$328k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
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 FY2023–2024.

Civil Rights$283kHuman Services$160kCrime & Legal$55k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $317,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $327,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
$17,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCES CENTER$70,000
THE BORDER ORGANIZATION$50,000
BORDER WORKERS UNITED$50,000
MISSION BORDER HOPE$45,000
CASA DE LA CULTURA$20,000
TEXAS IMMIGRATION LAW COUNCIL$17,500
GOODNATION FOUNDATION$17,500
GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP$15,000
LONE STAR DEFENDERS OFFICE$12,500
TEXAS BORDER INITIATIVE FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT$12,500
TEXAS RIO GRANDE LEGAL AID INC$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCES CENTER: $90k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCES CENTER: $70k → 10%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.

1
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
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
Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo

Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.

Civil Rights
4
Texas Legal Services Center Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
5
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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6
Austin Community Law Center

The Austin Community Law Center is a nonprofit law firm. Our mission is to make legal representation radically more affordable, invest in a stronger community, and fight for justice.

Crime & Legal
7
Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association

Provides education to criminal defense professionals.

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9
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.…

Civil Rights
10
Jolt Action Inc

We believe young Latinos will transform Texas through the power of their vote. We are harnessing the brilliance of our community and culture to build a generation of leaders that matches the urgency of our time.

Human Services
11
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights
12
Workers Defense Action Fund

Workers defense action fund is a member-led organization that mobilizes latine voters in texas to build governing power and fight for worker and immigrant justice.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lone Star Defefenders Office and the most unlike its peers is Mission Border Hope. 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

14 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. 14 of the 16 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)
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Grantees still filing
2/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $160,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTERBORDER ORGANIZATION — $50,000 · OtherBORDER ORGANIZATIONBORDER WORKERS UNITED — $50,000 · OtherBORDER WORKERS UNITEDCASA DE LA CULTURA — $20,000 · OtherCASA DE LA CULTURAGRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP INC — $15,000 · OtherGRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP INCTexas Border Initiative for Leadership Development — $12,500 · OtherTexas Border Initiative for Leaders…SAN ANTONIO TEACHERS COUNCIL — $10,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO TEACHERS COUNCILJAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS — $20,000 · Crime & LegalJAIL PROJECT…Texas Fair Defense Project — $15,000 · Crime & LegalTexas Fair D…LONE STAR DEFENDERS OFFICE — $12,500 · Crime & LegalLONE STAR DE…TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC — $7,500 · Crime & LegalTEXAS RIOGRA…Mission Border Hope — $45,000 · Public BenefitMission Bo…OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyGoodnation Foundation Inc — $17,500 · PhilanthropyLA UNION DEL PUEBLO ENTERO — $25,000 · Community ImprovementTexas Immigration Law Council — $17,500 · Civil Rights
Human Services$160,000Other$157,500Crime & Legal$55,000Public Benefit$45,000Philanthropy$37,500Community Improvement$25,000Civil Rights$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $160,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBORDER WORKERS UNITED — $50,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetMission Border Hope — $45,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLA UNION DEL PUEBLO ENTERO — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS — $20,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Immigration Law Council — $17,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc — $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Fair Defense Project — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLONE STAR DEFENDERS OFFICE — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Border Initiative for Leadership Development — $12,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetSAN ANTONIO TEACHERS COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

NEO Philanthropy IncFwdus Education Fund …Borealis PhilanthropyProteus Fund IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Rockefeller Philanthr…Communities Foundatio…ImpactassetsincFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
NEO Philanthropy IncNY17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Fwdus Education Fund Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Proteus Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Impactassetsinc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    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.

    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 16 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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