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, Children's Advocacy Centers, Houston Endowment 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, $55M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

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

$311M reached 189 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Texas, from 997 funders. 50% 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 Refugee & Immigrant Center For leads, and the money reaches 189 groups. Texas's civil rights and advocacy organizations are comparatively well-backed, averaging 5 funders each.

$311M

granted

189

organizations

50%

from in-state

The short version

997 funders gave $311M to 189 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Texas across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
50% 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 $55M.
The civil rights and advocacy organization drawing the most is Refugee & Immigrant Center For, at $29M.

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$55M 2Children's Advocacy Centers$21M 3Houston Endowment Inc$17M 4Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$13M 5The Epoch Times Association Inc$11M 6Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc$9M 7US Committee for Refugees And$8M 8International Rescue Committee Inc$7M 9Dallas Casa Endowment Fund$6M 10American Online Giving Foundation Inc$6M

Civil rights and advocacy organizations in Texas that draw the most

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

179 other civil rights and advocacy organizations$153M

Refugee & Immigrant Center For$29M Houston in Action Network$24M Dallas Casa$21M First Liberty Institute$20M Alliance for Children Inc$14M Epoch Public Foundation$12M ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc$9M

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, Children's Advocacy Centers, Houston Endowment Inc. A funder already writing civil rights and advocacy checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
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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.
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Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
50% 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, Children's Advocacy Centers, Houston Endowment 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, $55M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in Texas?: $311M reached 189 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Texas, from 997 funders. 50% 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 regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; 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.