How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in Texas?

Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in Texas, currently Texas Casa Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Texas from out of state.

Who is the largest civil rights and advocacy funder in Texas?

Texas Casa Inc gives the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in Texas, $113M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in Texas?

$523M reached 551 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Texas, from 2,008 funders. 45% came from funders also based in Texas.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Texas · Civil rights and advocacy

Who funds civil rights and advocacy in Texas

Civil rights and advocacy funding in Texas is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Dallas Casa leads, and the money reaches 551 groups.

$523M

granted

551

organizations

45%

from in-state

The short version

2,008 funders gave $523M to 551 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Texas across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
45% of that came from funders also based in Texas; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of civil rights and advocacy in Texas is Texas Casa Inc, at $113M.
The civil rights and advocacy organization drawing the most is Dallas Casa, at $40M.

Largest funders of civil rights and advocacy in Texas

The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in Texas, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Texas Casa Inc$113M 2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$30M 3Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc$12M 4Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program$11M 5New Venture Fund$10M 6Donors Trust Inc$9M 7The Ford Foundation$9M 8Dallas Casa Endowment Fund$7M 9American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$7M 10International Rescue Committee INC$7M

Civil rights and advocacy organizations in Texas that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

541 other civil rights and advocacy organizations$344M

Dallas Casa$40M Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services$19M Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc$19M

How to find civil rights and advocacy funders in Texas

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Start with the funders already active in Texas
The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy in Texas are Texas Casa Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc. A funder already writing civil rights and advocacy checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
55% of civil rights and advocacy money in Texas comes from funders elsewhere, so national civil rights and advocacy funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Texas.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in Texas?: Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in Texas, currently Texas Casa Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Texas from out of state.
Who is the largest civil rights and advocacy funder in Texas?: Texas Casa Inc gives the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in Texas, $113M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in Texas?: $523M reached 551 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Texas, from 2,008 funders. 45% came from funders also based in Texas.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.