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Texas Organizing Project Education Fund

TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND (top ed fund) improves the lives of low and moderate income texas families by building power through community organizing and civic engagement.

$672k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$272k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2023.

Public Benefit$1.3MCivil Rights$993kCrime & Legal$624kPublic Safety & Disaster$444kHousing & Shelter$135kHuman Services$60kFood & Nutrition$25kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2023 · 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
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Every Texan - previously known as Center for Public Policy Priorites$12,500
Children's Defense Fund$12,500
FREED TEXAS$10,000
CVPE EDUCATIONAL FORUM INC$10,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SHAPE COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 16%Daughters Across The Dispora: $25k → 14%The Afiya Center: $10k → 14%URBAN COMMUNITY NETWORK: $15k → 16%LAUNCH POINT CDC INC: $10k → 16%Urban Community Network: $10k → 16%FEIL HOUSTON INC: $25k → 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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 16% 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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 4 repeat orgs$2.2M 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

4
28

Total granted

$1.2M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+47%

Still filing today

75%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesCivil RightsEducationPublic BenefitHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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 +17%
  • F
    FixSAPD
    2× · 2020–2021 · $475k
  • CF
    Center for Public Policy Priorities
    5× · 2020–2024 · $213k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TO
    TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT
    2× · 2022–2024 · $800k · revenue -13% · 29% of their budget
  • WD
    WORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT
    2× · 2017–2018 · $129k · revenue +13%
  • ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZINGgraduated
    3× · 2018–2021 · $100k · revenue +248%

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.

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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
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
3
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
4
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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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
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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7
Progress Texas

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

Civil Rights
8
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
9
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
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10
Jolt Initiative

Jolt Initiative is a non-profit organization that increases the civic participation of Latinos in Texas to build a stronger democracy and ensure that everyone's voice is heard.

Civil Rights
11
Austin Justice Coalition

Austin Justice Coalition educates, organizes, and empowers communities in Austin to build racial equity and dismantle systems of oppression through advocacy, policy change, and community programs.

Human Services
12
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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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 Safe 4 Communities. 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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%4%<5yr16%22%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr11%11%35–55yr12%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%2%<5yr16%6%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr12%32%55yr+

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 — 6% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
3/54
the rest of the field
16%
10,156/63,739

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.

05the grantee network

41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
24/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT — $800,000 · OtherTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECTFixSAPD — $475,000 · OtherFixSAPDSA Justice Charter PAC — $272,000 · OtherSA Justice Charter PAC+23 more — $434,641 · Other+23 moreCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $535,000 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FU…ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $100,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH OR…FE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER — $50,000 · Civil RightsFE Y JUSTICIA WORKER …RESTORING JUSTICE — $225,000 · Crime & LegalRESTORING …TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC — $100,000 · Crime & LegalTEXAS RIOG…Center for Public Policy Priorities — $212,500 · Public BenefitGround Game Texas — $25,000 · Public BenefitWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT — $129,405 · EducationCVPE EDUCATIONAL FORUM INC — $10,000 · EducationSAFE 4 COMMUNITIES — $5,000 · EducationTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyHOUSTON IN ACTION — $7,000 · PhilanthropyFAITH REVITALIZATION CENTER INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTexas Low-Income Housing Information Service — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE FAIRNESS PROJECT — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT — $800,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $535,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetRESTORING JUSTICE — $225,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetCenter for Public Policy Priorities — $212,500 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT — $129,405 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $100,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Low-Income Housing Information Service — $100,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetProject Curate — $50,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGround Game Texas — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON — $25,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY NETWORK — $25,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetEMPOWER HOUSE SA — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTexas Latino Pride — $15,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTHE FAIRNESS PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCVPE EDUCATIONAL FORUM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetPure Justice — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE AFIYA CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSHAPE Community Center — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAGAPE BROADCASTING FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHOUSTON IN ACTION — $7,000 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 Endowment IncGreater Houston Commu…Houston in Action Net…Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationWindward FundNEO Philanthropy IncHarvey R Houck Jr and…The Simmons FoundationJacob and Terese Hers…Alice Kleberg Reynold…
Texas Organizing ProjectTX32.6× affinity13 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 · Houston in Action Network · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Windward Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Harvey R Houck Jr and Patricia W Houck Foundation Inc · The Simmons Foundation · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800

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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Texas Organizing Project Education Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Texas Organizing Project Education Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 41 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 $2.5M 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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