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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CVPE EDUCATIONAL FORUM INC$10,000
FREED TEXAS$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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%Urban Community Network: $10k → 16%LAUNCH POINT CDC INC: $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
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 16% of Texas Organizing Project Education Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Texas Organizing Project Education Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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 BenefitHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

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%
  • TR
    TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INCgraduated
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +47%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
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
2
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
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

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

Civil Rights
6
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
7
Progress Texas Institute

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

Civil Rights
8
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
9
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
10
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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11
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

41 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
24/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $100,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTexas Low-Income Housing Information Service: $100,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetEMPOWER HOUSE SA: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON: $25,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY NETWORK: $25,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetGround Game Texas: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTexas Latino Pride: $15,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetPure Justice: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE AFIYA CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FAIRNESS PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCVPE EDUCATIONAL FORUM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.5% 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
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.

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

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 Organizing Project Education Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Texas Organizing Project Education Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 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 $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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