Texas · Nonprofit
Deceleration
Deceleration (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $415,000 to it, the largest being WINDWARD FUND ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $181k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $415k
- Net assets
- $123k
What Deceleration does
Mission
Deceleration is a nonprofit online journal producing original news and analysis responding to our shared ecological, political, and cultural crises. We write at the intersection of environment and justicejournalistically, academically, and creativelywith emphasis on our home communities and bioregion (the watersheds of San Antonio, South Texas, and the Gulf South, broadly). Deceleration is dedicated to cultivating radical imagination that goes to the roots of climate disturbance in historical systems of oppression while expanding and deepening the sorts of solutions we put into practice for protecting and creating the commons.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Original Reporting: Produced 101 original stories covering regional environmental/climate justice and human rights news and analysis; 5 podcasts, 12 video stories; and co-produced one story with another media outlet 16 stories republished in 7 outlets: Truthout, the San Antonio Current, WhoWhatWhy, the Texas Observer, Public Health Watch, Popular Resistance, and Portside. Worked with 27 freelance writers who contributed original stories, allowing us to expand our reporting both topically and geographically, moving beyond San Antonio to Central Texas, the Gulf Coast, the Rio Grande Valley, Texas at large, and beyond.
$163,615 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $163,615.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $175k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 Deceleration’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
Deceleration leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 Deceleration.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 86% — 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
60% of Deceleration's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $165k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250k 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.
Against its field
Deceleration runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Deceleration
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
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Deceleration?
- Deceleration (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $415,000 to it, the largest being WINDWARD FUND ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Deceleration have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $415,000 in grants to Deceleration, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Deceleration?
- WINDWARD FUND is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Deceleration 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 2024–2024), 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