Texas · Nonprofit
EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas
EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $459,750 to it, the largest being AMERICAN UNITY FUND INC ($195,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $478k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $460k
- Net assets
- $372k
What EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas does
Mission
EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Legislative Advocacy and Lobbying Equality Texas advocates and lobbies for eliminating discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity expression. Equality Texas seeks to inform its members, allies, and the general public about matters of public policy and legislation pending before the Texas Legislature that impact Texans of all sexual orientations and gender identity expressions. Equality Texas promotes civic participation in the legislative process through direct and grassroots lobbying efforts. These efforts include constituent lobbying visits at the State Capitol and in legislators' district offices, town hall meetings, testifying at legislative hearings, and communication with legislators via mail, phone, or electronic means. Equality Texas's direct lobbying efforts included action alerts and campaigns to members and contacts with legislators and their offices by Equality Texas members. Equality Texas also worked with its legislative allies on drafting proposed legislation for the next session of the Texas Legislature.
$175,085 spentof which $20,000 as grants$225,000 earned by the program52% of program spendingElectoral Equality Texas provides members information about endorsed, pro-equality candidates for state and local elected office.
$159,835 spent47% of program spendingEquality Texas conducts public education about discrimination with an emphasis on outreach to businesses and faith communities.
$2,025 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $336,945.
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 $141k to $560k (+298%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $175k → $78k.
From the IRS filings of EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality 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
EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.
“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
17% of EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 40% 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
EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas: 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 EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas?
- EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $459,750 to it, the largest being AMERICAN UNITY FUND INC ($195,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $459,750 in grants to EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas?
- AMERICAN UNITY FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $195,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality 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.
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 10 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