Texas · Nonprofit
TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND
TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND (Texas) receives grants from 116 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,042,459 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($4,980,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 116
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Texas Organizing Project Education Fund does
Mission
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund (top ed fund) improves the lives of low and moderate income texas families by building power through community organizing and civic engagement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Civic Engagement expenses: TOP Ed Fund increases civic engagement in low and moderate income neighborhoods in Harris, Dallas, and Bexar counties. TOP Ed Fund encourages families to become informed and active participants in their communities and at all levels of government by informing them of the organizational structure of the local governments (city and county), their respective areas of authority; how decisions are made and how and when public meetings and hearings are conducted where they can participate and express their concerns.
$1,040,246 spent20% of program spendingPublic Education and Outreach expenses: The TOP Ed fund identifies issues of concern in low-to-moderate income neighborhoods and partners with experts to provide training, host town hall meetings, and host public forums to promote education and understanding of the community-identified issues and solutions, so that residents have the tools they need to effectively address issues in their community. We conduct outreach and public education on issues such as affordable housing, improving neighborhood infrastructure, improving public schools, jobs and job training, affordable health care, criminal justice reform, and immigrants' rights.
$2,860,676 spentof which $2,543,766 as grants55% of program spendingLeadership Development expenses: TOP Ed Fund Community Organizers identify community residents with leadership potential in our targeted low-to-moderate income neighborhoods. Organizers work both one-on-one and in group settings with residents to increase their community outreach skills and how to effectively engage their neighbors in joining their efforts to improve their neighborhoods. Residents also learn effective tools and strategies for planning and leading meetings, issue-campaign planning, engaging the media, and increasing civic participation in their neighborhoods.
$1,300,307 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,201,229.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.5M to $7.8M (+214%).
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.
96% of TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 21 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $3.9M → $6.2M.
34 of 116 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 116 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 ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
64% 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 ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 22% · 2019 58% · 2020 13% · 2021 15% · 2022 9% · 2023 11% — 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
41% of TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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 ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND
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
80% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Texas Organizing Project (Top) · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND?
- TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND (Texas) receives grants from 116 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,042,459 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($4,980,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 116 organizations giving $39,042,459 in grants to TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,980,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND 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 116 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