Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA
AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,135 to it, the largest being SHIELD-AYRES FOUNDATION ($20,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $69k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $90k
What Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera does
Mission
Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera raises awareness about conditions of social and economic injustice along the Texas/Mexico border particularly as they affect displaced and disenfranchised communities and supports community-driven resistance to injustice through transnational solidarity, the arts, and fair trade.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Border solidarity program: Education activities along the Texas-Mexico border, including delegations to the region to learn and support about working conditions and women led organizing efforts
$30,777 spentof which $2,400 as grants65% of program spendingWomen & Fair Trade Festival Raises awareness about the differences between free and fair trade & supports women-centered coops from Palestine, Guatemala, Ecuador, San Antonio (TX), Chiapas (Mexico)
$7,274 spent15% of program spendingBorder Talks: Eduaction and artistic gatherings of organizers, creatives, cultural workers, and communities around trade topics
$9,512 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,563.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $17k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 71% · 2019 83% · 2020 100% · 2021 42% · 2022 74% · 2023 57% — 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.
Where its funders are
81% of AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA: 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 AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA?
- AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,135 to it, the largest being SHIELD-AYRES FOUNDATION ($20,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $75,135 in grants to AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA?
- SHIELD-AYRES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN TAN CERCA DE LA FRONTERA 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing