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TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY
TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY (Texas) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,876,554 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($700,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $878k
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy does
Mission
Tejas is dedicated to providing community members with the tools necessary to create sustainable, environmentally healthy communities by educating individuals on health concerns and implications arising from environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
TEJAS provides Toxic Trespass Training, working towards a more comprehensive Refinery Rule. Engaged with area students, educators, and community members to practice community science, holding policymakers and regulatory agencies accountable, and answering questions from residents, media, and researchers. These activities increased public participation regarding eenvironmental issues that directly affected residents in our service areas.
$93,716 spent25% of program spendingTEJAS established partnerships across various issues to collaborate and minimize harm, ultimately finding solutions thhat protect community health and wellbeing. Programming at Tejas works strategically to engage decision-makers and inform them of the real life impacts their decisions have on our lives through storytelling. As our stories intertwine with labor, educators, social workers, and faith leaders, we weave a larger picture that involves all aspects of life, including that of our Mother Earth, which is often sacrificed for superficial gains.
$93,717 spent25% of program spendingUtilized theories of environmental data justice. TEJAS worked to foster deep community relationships, storytelling for change, disseminating information through workshops, community meetings, civic participation to work alongside directly impacted residents as they navigate public participation to learn about environmental protections.
$93,716 spent25% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 93,716, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Toxic Tours are part of ongoing work and primarily serve as a free educational tool used year-round to inform the public about environmental justice issues and intersections with social justice in the Greater Houston region. It is essential to note that every trip is unique, as ongoing chemical emergencies and climate change both alter the landscape and influence how people respond to these changes.
$93,716 spent25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $374,865.
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 $1.8M to $2.6M (+48%).
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 TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Juan Parras
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $213k → $563k.
13 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
72% 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 TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 56% · 2019 33% · 2020 36% · 2021 27% · 2022 21% · 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
22% of TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY: 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 TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY?
- TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY (Texas) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,876,554 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($700,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $4,876,554 in grants to TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY 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 43 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing