Texas · Nonprofit
EQTX Equality Texas Foundation
EQTX Equality Texas Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,649,136 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($826,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $944k
What EQTX Equality Texas Foundation does
Mission
EQTX Equality Texas Foundation works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Texans through education, community organizing, and collaboration.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Outreach and Engagement: The Foundation educates and engages the public on LGBTQ+ issues. It works toward a state where lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Texans and their families have full equality in the hearts and minds of their fellow Texans. Equality Texas Foundation provides the issue education and skill-building training necessary for LGBTQ+ Texans and their allies to confidently exercise their individual and collective power to advance LGBTQ+ rights.
$1,452,358 spentof which $1,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,452,358.
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.
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 $523k to $1.8M (+237%).
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: 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of EQTX Equality Texas Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Brad Nitschke
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $197k → $910k.
19 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 EQTX Equality Texas Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 funders by total. 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 Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
46% 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 Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 42% · 2019 47% · 2020 33% · 2021 21% · 2022 30% · 2023 27% — 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
55% of EQTX Equality Texas Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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 Foundation draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
EQTX Equality Texas Foundation's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 28 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like EQTX Equality Texas Foundation
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EQTX Equality Texas Foundation: 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 Foundation?
- EQTX Equality Texas Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,649,136 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($826,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EQTX Equality Texas Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $4,649,136 in grants to EQTX Equality Texas Foundation, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EQTX Equality Texas Foundation?
- HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $826,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EQTX Equality Texas Foundation 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 66 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