Texas · Nonprofit
Este Poder
Este Poder (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,023,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($300,000). 4 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
- $381k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $355k
What Este Poder does
Mission
Este Poder is building power in rural East Texas communities of color through civic engagement, organizing, and leadership cultivation. We are collectively working towards a future where our diverse community has the opportunity to thrive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Young Texans Civic Engagement: Este Poder focuses on individuals aged 17-35 by partnering with East Texas high schools to equip young people, including college students, with civic engagement tools to instill lifelong active participation. Additionally, Este Poder student fellows continuously organize in the region's largest colleges to promote this engagement.
$204,688 spent68% of program spendingEngaging East Texas: We are committed to identifying and addressing challenges faced by our community by meeting with them where they are. Our outreach spans diverse platforms?from local festivals and churches to restaurants and online spaces.
$88,656 spent29% of program spendingAdvocacy: We focus on local government through legislative informational and educational needs. We want to encourage our community's presence in city council meetings and school board meetings.
$8,890 spent3% of program spendingOther General Program
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $302,234.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $203k to $406k (+100%).
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.
100% of Este Poder’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Belen Iniguez
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $100k → $444k.
4 of 8 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 Este Poder’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
Este Poder has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
100% 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 Este Poder.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 50% · 2023 23% — 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 Este Poder'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 $405k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $619k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Este Poder has grown faster 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 Este Poder
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
0%
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 Este Poder: 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 Este Poder?
- Este Poder (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,023,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($300,000). 4 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 Este Poder have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,023,500 in grants to Este Poder, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Este Poder?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Este Poder 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 8 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