Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN TENANTS COUNCIL
AUSTIN TENANTS COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,866 to it, the largest being IMPACT AUSTIN FOUNDATION ($78,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $192k
- Net assets
- $0
What Austin Tenants Council does
Mission
Austin Tenants Council was established for the purpose of conducting a tenants counseling service; to educate tenants in their rights and responsibilities; to supply technical assistance to tenant groups; and to promote and further the legal, social and economic rights of all tenants, in particular low-income tenants.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization (atc) is dissolved and liquidated in accordance with the provisions of the state of texas, the asset purchase agreement between atc and texas riogrande legal aid (trla) as executed on december 7, 2022, and atc's bylaws.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Landlord and tenant services. The telephone counseling program serves the educational and counseling needs of callers concerning residential tenant-landlord disputes. Phones are answered by trained councelors who offer options, refer callers to other agencies or suggest legal assistance through legal aid, lawyers referral services, etc. The rental's rights assistance program helps low-income renters enforce their rights for repairs by assisting the tenants in sending proper written requests. Mediations and negotions with the landlord may also play a role.
Fair housing education and enforcement. The fair housing program helps any person in the austin metropolitan area who has been discriminated against in the rental, sale, financing or appraisal of housing. It is illegal to discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin. In the city of austin, it is also illegal to discriminate against any person because of marital status, sexual orientation, age, or status as a student. The fair housing program also provides fair housing education by providing seminars and presentations.
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $582k to $322k (−45%).
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: 2017 97% · 2018 98% · 2019 97% · 2020 96% · 2021 87% · 2022 97% · 2023 99% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Aja Gair
Interim executive director
Board chair
David Jones
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $16.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 TENANTS COUNCIL’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 TENANTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 TENANTS COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of AUSTIN TENANTS COUNCIL's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding AUSTIN TENANTS COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AUSTIN TENANTS COUNCIL
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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 TENANTS COUNCIL: 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 TENANTS COUNCIL?
- AUSTIN TENANTS COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,866 to it, the largest being IMPACT AUSTIN FOUNDATION ($78,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUSTIN TENANTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $191,866 in grants to AUSTIN TENANTS COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN TENANTS COUNCIL?
- IMPACT AUSTIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $78,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN TENANTS COUNCIL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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