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DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS

DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,529,900 to it, the largest being Texas Access to Justice Foundation ($4,233,191). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$20M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$7.5M
Net assets
$1.1M
8/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Disability Rights Texas does

Mission

To advocate for and protect the human and legal rights of the citizens of texas with disabilities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Legal services programs administered on behalf of the texas access to justice foundation

    $4,458,201 spent$4,872,351 earned by the program
    24% of program spending
  2. Developmental disabilities protection and advocacy fund - advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities

    $3,068,751 spent$3,230,264 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  3. Mental illness protection and advocacy program fund - advocacy for individuals with mental illness

    $2,613,817 spent$2,751,386 earned by the program
    14% of program spending
  4. Rep payee strengthening protections for beneficiaries of social security

    $2,250,803 spent$2,369,266 earned by the program
    12% of program spending
  5. Other programs

    $1,431,608 spent$2,285,686 earned by the program
    8% of program spending
  6. Protection & advocacy of individual rights

    $1,409,056 spent$1,483,217 earned by the program
    8% of program spending
  7. Client assistance program

    $960,296 spent$1,010,838 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  8. Help america vote act

    $694,510 spent$731,063 earned by the program
    4% of program spending
  9. Assistive technology program

    $473,740 spent$498,674 earned by the program
    3% of program spending
  10. Texas protection and advocacy for social security

    $374,502 spent$394,213 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  11. Protection and advocacy for traumatic brain injury

    $341,183 spent$359,140 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  12. Passthrough texas department of housing and community affairs

    $161,500 spent$170,000 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  13. Housing eviction prevention

    $111,429 spent$117,294 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  14. Fair housing initiatives

    $89,054 spent$93,741 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  15. Office of juvenile justice delinquency program passed through travis county public defenders office

    $15,304 spent$16,109 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  16. Us treasury passed through tajf

The 16 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,453,754.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($146k)2018 Revenue 109 ($12M) Expenses 110 ($12M) Net assets 150 ($219k)2019 Revenue 121 ($13M) Expenses 122 ($13M) Net assets 182 ($265k)2020 Revenue 148 ($16M) Expenses 149 ($16M) Net assets 235 ($342k)2021 Revenue 154 ($17M) Expenses 156 ($17M) Net assets 185 ($269k)2022 Revenue 166 ($18M) Expenses 165 ($18M) Net assets 387 ($564k)2023 Revenue 175 ($19M) Expenses 175 ($19M) Net assets 531 ($773k)2024 Revenue 194 ($21M) Expenses 195 ($21M) Net assets 618 ($900k)2025 Revenue 187 ($20M) Expenses 187 ($20M) Net assets 777 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (187)Expenses (187)Net assets (777)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.5M to $4.1M (+173%).

$2.3M
$1.8M
$1.5M
$4.1M
$3.3M
$4.3M
$5.2M
$5.1M
$5.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
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2020
2021
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 69% · 2018 63% · 2019 71% · 2020 66% · 2021 69% · 2022 72% · 2023 70% · 2024 71% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 157 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$127k
’17
$73k
’18
$47k
’19
$77k
’20
−$74k
’21
$323k
’22
$209k
’23
$126k
’24
$231k
’25
2.1
months of
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.

Board chair

Laura Marquez

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed232425252724262527
Joined·+5+5+4+8+1+6+4+8
No longer listed·44464456
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $326k → $2.7M.

2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS’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

DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS.

56%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 72% · 2019 85% · 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 2022 92% · 2023 51% — 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

20% of DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

70% of DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS's grant income comes from Texas funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin1% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 58 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $109.4M on record.

Federal$109.4M
grants $109.4Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$65.6M
  • Department of Education$22.5M
  • Social Security Administration$21.1M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$250k

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 DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

  • Disability Rights Texas Holding Company · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS?
DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,529,900 to it, the largest being Texas Access to Justice Foundation ($4,233,191). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $7,529,900 in grants to DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS?
Texas Access to Justice Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,233,191 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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