Texas · Nonprofit
Organizing Institute South and West IAF
Organizing Institute South and West IAF (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,232,499 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($2,100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Organizing Institute South and West IAF does
Mission
The Organizing Institute exists to strengthen organizing and develop organizers in the South & West region of Industrial Areas Foundation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Organizing Institute seeks to:1) Direct the recruitment, supervision and placement of organizers in our region.2) Guide the professional development of organizers.3) Cultivate more meaningful professional relationships among organizers and organizations in our region.5) Give strategic direction and support to start-up strategies and sponsoring committees.6) Sponsor organizer tryouts.
$2,935,019 spent$540,640 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,935,019.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $974k to $7.2M (+642%).
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.
67% of Organizing Institute South and West IAF’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Joe Rubio
Exec Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $900k → $1.1M.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Interfaith Education Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Organizing Institute South and West IAF raised.
From the IRS filings of Organizing Institute South and West IAF’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
Organizing Institute South and West IAF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 Organizing Institute South and West IAF.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 65% · 2023 70% — 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
Organizing Institute South and West IAF draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M 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
Organizing Institute South and West IAF holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Organizing Institute South and West IAF
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 Organizing Institute South and West IAF: 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 Organizing Institute South and West IAF?
- Organizing Institute South and West IAF (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,232,499 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($2,100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Organizing Institute South and West IAF have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $4,232,499 in grants to Organizing Institute South and West IAF, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Organizing Institute South and West IAF?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $2,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Organizing Institute South and West IAF 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 2018–2024), 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