Texas · Public charity
Texas Access to Justice Foundation
The Texas Access to Justice Foundation is a nonprofit corporation organized as a funding source for legal services to indigent Texans in civil matters. The funding primarily generated by interest earned on lawyers' trust accounts (IOLTA) throughout Texas.
- $30M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 36
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $29M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $184,266
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $9,506,455
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $203M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations Texas Access to Justice Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 34 | $29M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $24M | 4% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $29M | 4% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $11M | 34% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $14M | 23% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $11M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lone Star Legal Aid | $27,097,808 | 4 | n/a |
| Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc | $27,003,625 | 7 | 19% |
| Legal Aid of Northwest Texas | $15,671,753 | 6 | 15% |
| Texas Legal Services Center INC | $6,988,358 | 7 | 24% |
| Disability Rights Texas | $4,233,191 | 7 | 6% |
| Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services Inc | $3,788,301 | 7 | 13% |
| American Gateways | $3,263,590 | 7 | 39% |
| Lone Star Legal Aid Total | $3,239,667 | 3 | n/a |
| Equal Justice Center | $3,124,605 | 6 | 61% |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston | $3,106,284 | 7 | 2% |
Show all 43 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Texas Access to Justice Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Texas Bar Foundation · Equal Justice Works · Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab · United Way of Greater Houston · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Simmons Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation
How this is measured
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About Texas Access to Justice Foundation
- How much does Texas Access to Justice Foundation give?
- Texas Access to Justice Foundation reported 36 itemized grants totaling $29,427,997, out of $30,303,284 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Texas Access to Justice Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (89%), Civil Rights (5%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Texas Access to Justice Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lone Star Legal Aid ($27M), Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc ($27M), Legal Aid of Northwest Texas ($16M).
- Does Texas Access to Justice Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Texas Access to Justice Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Texas Bar Foundation, Equal Justice Works, Houston Endowment Inc.
- Where is Texas Access to Justice Foundation based?
- Texas Access to Justice Foundation is based in TX.
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