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Texas Appleseed

To promote social, economic, and racial justice for all Texans by leveraging the skills and resources of volunteer lawyers, other professionals, and community partners to identify practical solutions to difficult, systemic problems.

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
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 FY20212024.

Arts & Culture$120kHuman Services$45kHousing & Shelter$24kPublic Benefit$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$6k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $94,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $148,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $54,000 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 $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Texas Advocacy Project$60,000
Mosaic Family Services$10,000
Consumer Federation of Americ$10,000
The Family Place$7,500
RAISE Texas$7,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RAISE Texas: $7k → 10%The Family Place: $8k → 14%Genesis Womens Shelter & Sup: $10k → 14%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 Immigration Law Council

It is the mission of the Texas Immigration Law Council to protect and promote the basic rights of immigrants and refugees of all nationalities within Texas.

Civil Rights
2
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
3
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
4
Texas Defender Service

See Schedule OTDS fights for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education. TDS stands up for the dignity and humanity of people harmed by mass…

Civil Rights
5
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

6
Family Abuse Center Inc

The family abuse center exists to eliminate domestic violence in central texas by sheltering victims of domestic violence and by preventing abuse from occurring through intervention and education.

Human Services
7
Latina SafeHouse Initiative

See Schedule O.The mission of Latina SafeHouse Initiative is to provide bilingual and culturally sensitive services to Latina survivors of domestic violence and their families. Latina SafeHouse Initiative builds support and…

Human Services
8
Alamo Area Mutual Housing Association

To provide housing for low to moderate income families and to create a community environment that promotes resident education, self-sufficiency, leadership, and volunteerism

Housing & Shelter
9
Habitat for Humanity of Laredo Inc

Habitat for Humanity of Laredo Inc is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International Inc. A nondenominational Christian nonprofit organization. Our stated purpose is to create decent affordable housing for those in need and to make…

10
National Housing and Community Development Law Project

The Organization is a national housing and legal advocacy center. Its mission is to advance housing justice for poor people by: increasing and preserving the supply of decent, affordable housing; improving existing housing conditions,…

Crime & Legal
11
Affordable Homes of South Texas Inc

Affordable Homes of South Texas, Inc. is organized for the purpose of providing housing for qualified low-income families within the City of McAllen, Texas and Hidalgo County, Texas.

Housing & Shelter
12
Nestquest Houston Inc

To expand housing access in high opportunity areas for low income clients.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fair Share Housing Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Genesis Womens Shelter & Support. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Texas Advocacy Project — $120,000 · Arts & CultureTexas Advocacy ProjectGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT — $10,000 · Human ServicesGENESIS WOMENS SHE…TEXAS MUSLIM WOMENS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS MUSLIM WOMEN…The Family Place — $7,500 · Human ServicesThe Family PlaceRAISE Texas — $7,000 · Human ServicesRAISE TexasConsumer Federation of America — $20,000 · Public BenefitConsumer F…HFCC INC — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterHFCC INCFAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterFAIR SHAR…Texas Low-Income Housing Information Service — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterTexas Low…MOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 · HealthLouisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc — $6,000 · Civil RightsAYUDA LEGAL PUERTO RICO INC — $6,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Arts & Culture$120,000Human Services$34,500Public Benefit$20,000Housing & Shelter$18,000Health$10,000Civil Rights$6,000Public Safety & Disaster$6,000

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 budgetTexas Advocacy Project — $120,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetConsumer Federation of America — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS MUSLIM WOMENS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Family Place — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAISE Texas — $7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHFCC INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAIR SHARE HOUSING CENTER INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Low-Income Housing Information Service — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLouisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAYUDA LEGAL PUERTO RICO INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

The Ford FoundationNY14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Texas Appleseed 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
2021222324
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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 12 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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