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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. We are a membership based organization of low-moderate income residents, majority Black and Latino, that conducts…

$363k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$325,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$325,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 22
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$2.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Texas Organizing Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Civil RightsHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$356k50%
FY202222$896k100%
FY20216$284k83%
FY20202$27kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Public Benefit$1.2MCivil Rights$236kCrime & Legal$75kHealth$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas Organizing Project Political Action Committee$900,0003n/a
State Power Action Fund$92,50016%
FixSAPD$75,0001n/a
Texas Freedom Network$75,00016%
Houston in Action Network$50,00021%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$50,00010%
Texas for All$30,7221n/a
Working Families Organization Inc$25,00010%
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Texas$25,00012%
Children's Defense Fund$22,50020%
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All grantees of Texas Organizing Project by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas Organizing Project Political Action Committee$900,0003n/a
State Power Action Fund$92,50016%
FixSAPD$75,0001n/a
Texas Freedom Network$75,00016%
Houston in Action Network$50,00021%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$50,00010%
Texas for All$30,7221n/a
Working Families Organization Inc$25,00010%
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Texas$25,00012%
Children's Defense Fund$22,50020%
Radical Registrars$15,000210%
The Afiya Center$15,00020%
Empower House Sa$15,00011%
Pure Justice$15,00014%
Southwest Public Workers' Union$12,000154%
Urban Community Network$10,00022%
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc$10,00020%
Mi Familia En Accion$10,00010%
Texas Federation of the People Foundation$10,0001n/a
American indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions$10,00010%
West Street Recovery$10,00011%
Organization of Chinese Americans of Greater Houston$10,00020%
Emgage Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Friendship West Mizpah Foundation$10,000214%
East Harris County Empowerment Council$10,00011%
Workers Defense Project$10,00010%
Daughters Across the Diaspora Inc$10,0002n/a
We Are Writer's Block$10,0001n/a
The Fairness Project$8,81410%
Alianza Americas$6,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Texas Organizing Project supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetState Power Action Fund: $92,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTexas Freedom Network: $75,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetHouston in Action Network: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorking Families Organization Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Advocates of Texas: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetChildren's Defense Fund: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRadical Registrars: $15,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetThe Afiya Center: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEmpower House Sa: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPure Justice: $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSouthwest Public Workers' Union: $12,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetUrban Community Network: $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNational Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMi Familia En Accion: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetOrganization of Chinese Americans of Greater Houston: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEmgage Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFriendship West Mizpah Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetEast Harris County Empowerment Council: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWorkers Defense Project: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Fairness Project: $8,814 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlianza Americas: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

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

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.

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About Texas Organizing Project

How much does Texas Organizing Project give?
Texas Organizing Project reported 2 grants totaling $362,572 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Texas Organizing Project fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Public Benefit (79%), Civil Rights (15%), Crime & Legal (5%).
Who are Texas Organizing Project's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Texas Organizing Project Political Action Committee ($900k), State Power Action Fund ($93k), FixSAPD ($75k).
Does Texas Organizing Project fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Texas Organizing Project?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Texas Organizing Project Education Fund, Houston in Action Network, Houston Endowment Inc.
Where is Texas Organizing Project based?
Texas Organizing Project is based in TX.

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 31 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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