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Texas Organizing Project

The Texas Organizing Project (TOP) is an explicitly pro-Black organization working to improve the lives of working class Black and Latino Texas families by building power through community organizing and civic engagement.

$363k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$325k
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 FY2020–2023.

Public Benefit$1.2MCivil Rights$236kCrime & Legal$75kHealth$15k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
  • $250k+1 grant · $325k
$325,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Texas Organizing Project Political Action Committee$325,000
Texas For All$30,722
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 (FY22–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%The Afiya Center: $15k → 14%Planned Parenthood Advocates of Texas: $25k → 10%Daughters Across the Diaspora: $10k → 14%Urban Community Network: $10k → 16%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
Every Voice Texas dba Asian Texans for Justice

Asian Texans for Justice connects Asian and Pacific Islander Texans with civic action to build personal and political power.

Civil Rights
2
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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3
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
4
Texas Future Action Fund

The Texas Future Action Fund supports and elevates civic engagement efforts of organizations in Texas through grantmaking, donor education, and fundraising to build long-term political power in our state.

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5
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
6
Equity Action

Equity Action is a Texas nonprofit 501(c)(4) corporation(application pending)focused on strengthening and advancing local transformative criminal justice efforts.

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7
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
8
Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights
9
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
10
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
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11
Border Workers United

A community-based organization that develops leadership of workers to construct a movement of worker families in the texas borderlands.

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12
Polichic Engagement Fund

The PoliChic Engagement Fund is committed to fostering civic participation among women and their families in Texas.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coalition of Community Organizations. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#10#9#8#11#6
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%20%<5yr15%20%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr12%10%35–55yr12%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%19%<5yr15%18%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr12%15%35–55yr12%6%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 10% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
10%
5/52
the rest of the field
15%
17,482/118,328

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

45 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/45
Grantees still filing
23/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Texas Organizing Project Political Action Committee — $900,000 · OtherTexas Organizing Project Political Action CommitteeTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK — $75,000 · OtherTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORKFixSAPD — $75,000 · OtherFixSAPD+8 more — $97,536 · Other+8 moreSTATE POWER ACTION FUND — $92,500 · Civil RightsSTATE POWER ACTI…Houston in Action Network — $50,000 · Civil RightsHouston in Actio…WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES…CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $22,500 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S DEFEN…Radical Registrars — $15,000 · Civil RightsRadical Registra…MI FAMILIA EN ACCION — $10,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsPLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE AFIYA CENTER — $15,000 · Human ServicesAmerican indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions — $10,000 · Human ServicesURBAN COMMUNITY NETWORK — $10,000 · Human ServicesDAUGHTERS ACROSS THE DIASPORA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesNEO Philanthropy Inc — $50,000 · Public BenefitEmgage Foundation Inc — $10,000 · Public BenefitWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT — $10,000 · EducationTEXAS FEDERATION OF THE PEOPLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationFRIENDSHIP WEST MIZPAH FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationPure Justice — $15,000 · Community ImprovementEAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL — $10,000 · Community ImprovementEMPOWER HOUSE SA — $15,000 · Health
Other$1,147,536Civil Rights$225,000Human Services$70,000Public Benefit$60,000Education$30,000Community Improvement$25,000Health$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTATE POWER ACTION FUND — $92,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK — $75,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston in Action Network — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRadical Registrars — $15,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetEMPOWER HOUSE SA — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE AFIYA CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPure Justice — $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST PUBLIC WORKERS' UNION — $12,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEmgage Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWest Street Recovery — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDSHIP WEST MIZPAH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTON — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY NETWORK — $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FAIRNESS PROJECT — $8,814 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlianza Americas — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Texas Organizing Proj…Houston in Action Net…Houston Endowment IncTides FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncJacob and Terese Hers…Amalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundWindward FundHouston in ActionGreater Houston Commu…Texas Freedom Network…
Texas Organizing Project Education FundTX32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Organizing Project Education Fund · Houston in Action Network · Houston Endowment Inc · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Windward Fund · Houston in Action · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Texas Freedom Network Education Fund

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 Organizing Project 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
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report 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, FY20–24

    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 31 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.5M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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