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· Public charity

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $94,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $148,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $54,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
Consumer Federation of Americ$10,000
Mosaic Family Services$10,000
The Family Place$7,500
RAISE Texas$7,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

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
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
4
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.

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5
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
6
Tennessee Fair Housing Council

The Tennessee Fair Housing Council is a private, nonprofit advocacy organization whose mission is to eliminate housing discrimination throughout Tennessee. The enforcement program is based in Nashville, TN and concentrates on the middle…

Religion
7
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…

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8
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
9
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
10
Center for Fair Housing Inc

To render support and couseling to those pursuing legal rights to fair housing, to promote research and investigations into issues of fair housing, to provide dispute resolution, and to foster community education.

Civil Rights
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fair Share Housing Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc. 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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Texas Advocacy Project: $120,000 · Arts & CultureTexas Advocacy ProjectTEXAS MUSLIM WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS MUSLIM WOMEN…GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $10,000 · Human ServicesGENESIS WOMENS SHE…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 · HealthAYUDA LEGAL PUERTO RICO INC: $6,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLouisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc: $6,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$120,000Human Services$34,500Public Benefit$20,000Housing & Shelter$18,000Health$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$6,000Civil Rights$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas Advocacy Project: $120,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetConsumer Federation of America: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS MUSLIM WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES 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 budgetAYUDA LEGAL PUERTO RICO INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 budget
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.

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.

The Ford FoundationWells Fargo FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Texas Appleseed funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Texas Appleseed. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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