Texas · Nonprofit
ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc
ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc (Texas) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,826,780 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,707,595). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 110
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc does
Mission
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties. (Continued on Schedule O) The Foundation will supply legal counsel to persons whose civil liberties and rights are threatened.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Voting Rights - The ACLU Foundation of Texas works to protect, defend, and advance the constitutional and civil rights of all eligible voters and to advance fair districting maps. This work includes public education, non-partisan poll monitoring, community engagement, and litigation.
$1,320,968 spentof which $2,022 as grants37% of program spendingImmigrants' Rights - The ACLU Foundation of Texas works to protect, defend, and advance the constitutional and civil rights of immigrants, immigrant communities, and communities in the state along or near the U.S.-Mexico border. This work includes public education, community engagement, and litigation.
$920,226 spentof which $3,457 as grants26% of program spendingFree Speech - The ACLU Foundation of Texas works to protect, defend, and advance the constitutional and civil rights of all Texans to protest and speak freely. This work includes public education, community engagement, and litigation.
$386,599 spentof which $3,624 as grants11% of program spendingReproductive Freedom - The ACLU Foundation of Texas works to protect, defend, and advance the constitutional and civil rights of all Texans to reproductive freedom, including abortion, and family planning. This work includes public education, community engagement, and litigation.
$343,346 spentof which $3,660 as grants10% of program spendingLGBTQIA+ Equality - The ACLU Foundation of Texas works to protect, defend, and advance the constitutional and civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) people. This work includes public education, community engagement, and litigation.
$341,166 spentof which $10,048 as grants9% of program spendingSMART Justice Reform - The ACLU Foundation of Texas works to protect, defend, and advance the constitutional and civil rights of people involved in the criminal legal system. This work includes public education, community engagement, and litigation.
$287,952 spentof which $554 as grants8% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,600,257.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.0M to $5.3M (+74%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Oni Blair
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $805k → $1.8M.
29 of 110 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 110 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 29% · 2019 24% · 2020 19% · 2021 15% · 2022 19% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- ACLU of Texas Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc?
- ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc (Texas) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,826,780 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,707,595). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc have?
- IRS filings report 110 organizations giving $13,826,780 in grants to ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,707,595 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 110 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing