· Public charity
Workers Defense Project
WORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT is a member-led organization that organizes latine immigrant workers in texas to fight for dignity and respect.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $870,874 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $907,874 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $37,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k1 grant · $127k
- $250k+2 grants · $744k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY PRIORITIES DBA EVERYTEXAN | $494,064 |
| WORKERS DEFENSE ACTION FUND | $250,000 |
| TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC | $126,810 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $494k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WDWORKERS DEFENSE ACTION FUND4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue -54% · 37% of their budget
- TOTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND5× · 2019–2023 · $164k · revenue -51%
- TRTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC2× · 2022–2024 · $143k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- UFUnited for Respect Education Fundone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -71%
- AJAustin Justice Coalitionone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +5%
- SCSHAPE Community Centergraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +85%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
A community-based organization that develops leadership of workers to construct a movement of worker families in the texas borderlands.
Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
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.
We are texas lawyers for texas communities, boldly serving the movement for equality and justice in and out of the courts.
Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.
Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.
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.
Lone star justice alliance (lsja) was established in 2017 as a non-profit legal organization to boldly address systemic failures in the justice system through advocacy and innovative evidence-based programs that improve life outcomes for…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Workers Defense Project and the most unlike its peers is Out Youth Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WORKERS DEFENSE ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds WORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds United for Respect Education Fund ↗
- Who funds Austin Justice Coalition ↗
- Who funds SHAPE Community Center ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds FE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER ↗
- Who funds West Street Recovery ↗
- Who funds Out Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds Living Hope Wheelchair Association ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Texas Organizing Project Education Fund · Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Houston Endowment Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Workers Defense 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.
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.