How much did TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND grant in FY2023?

TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND reported 11 grants totaling $672,061 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND based?

TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND is based in TX.

TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND

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· Public charity

TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND

The Texas Organizing Project Education Fund (TOPEF) is an explicitly pro-Black organization with the mission of improving the lives of low-income working class Black and Latino Texas families building power through community organizing and civic engagement.

$672k

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$272k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

healthpositivevotersvotereconomic

2021

catalyst

2022

subgrant catalystcatalyst exclusivelyexclusively activitiesactivities accordanceproposal addendumaddendum submittedsubmitted catalyst

2023

healthyvoicesbuildswantmemberscatalyst subsequentsubsequent correspondence

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k9 grants · $165k
$50k–250k1 grant · $225k
$250k+1 grant · $272k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants

SA Justice Charter PAC$272,000
Restoring Justice$225,000
VOCAL$40,000
Daughters Across The Dispora$25,000
By Any Means 104$25,000
URBAN COMMUNITY NETWORK$15,000
Texas Latino Pride$15,000
Children's Defense Fund$12,500
Every Texan - previously known as Center for Public Policy Priorites$12,500
CVPE EDUCATIONAL FORUM INC$10,000
FREED TEXAS$10,000

02The need

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 (FY17–23, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 14% of TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUNDlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.2M · 4 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+58%

Still filing today

50%

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $622k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyEducationPublic BenefitHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

Children's Defense fund
5× · 2020–2024 · $535k · revenue +39%
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FixSAPD
2× · 2020–2021 · $475k
ET
Every Texan - previously known as Center for Public Policy Priorites
5× · 2020–2024 · $213k · revenue +28%

Funded once

TO
Texas Organizing Projectgraduated
2× · 2022–2024 · $800k · revenue +58% · 29% of their budget
WD
Workers Defense Project
2× · 2017–2018 · $129k · revenue +13%
TL
Texas Low Income Housing Information Service
2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue -80%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Austin Justice Coalition

AJC mission is to improve the quality of life for people of color by helping them be the driving force behind their own liberation.

Human Services

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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Texas Fair Defense Project

Texas Fair Defense Project's mission is to fight to end the criminalization of poverty in Texas. We envision a system of justice that upholds the dignity and civil rights of all people, regardless of income, race, or gender.

Crime & Legal

Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services

TrueWorks Houston

To see well-formed people create well-formed ventures and transform our city.

Religion

Houston Local Information

To strengthen democracy and improve the lives of all Houstonians one story at a time.

Arts & Culture

Progress Texas Institute

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

Civil Rights

Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights

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

Redeeming Justice Network

Houston Legal Aid Center protects and advances the rights of the poor through the provision of Christian-based legal advocacy either pro bono or at reduced-cost.

Civil Rights

Este Poder

Este Poder is building power in rural East Texas communities of color through civic engagement, organizing, and leadership cultivation. We are collectively working towards a future where our diverse community has the opportunity to thrive.

Civil Rights

After Violence Project

The Texas After Violence Project is a community-based archive and documentary project cultivating deeper understanding of state-sanctioned violence on individuals, families, and communities. Our mission is to do responsible, inclusive, and…

Civil Rights

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

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/54

the rest of the field

14%

8,653/63,739

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.

06the grantee network

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/41

Grantees still filing

32/41

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,981,641Civil Rights$685,000Crime & Legal$325,000Public Benefit$237,500Education$144,405Philanthropy$112,000Housing & Shelter$110,000

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

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 ProjectTX37.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Organizing Project · Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Windward Fund · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Harvey R Houck Jr and Patricia W · Houston in Action Network

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 organisation TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND 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 moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Restoring Justice.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 813279488 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Restoring Justice, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 37% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Texas Organizing Project Education Fund?

Find your warmest path to Texas Organizing Project Education Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Texas Organizing Project Education Fund?

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TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Texas Organizing Project Education Fund?

More from the funding graph