Texas · Nonprofit
TEXAS RIOGRANDE PUBLIC DEFENDER
TEXAS RIOGRANDE PUBLIC DEFENDER (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,000 to it, the largest being TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $510k
- Net assets
- $525k
What Texas Riogrande Public Defender does
Mission
In rural counties with limited resources, Texas Rio Grande Public Defender delivers free, top-tier legal representation to indigent clients. Our diverse network of skilled advocates collaborates to defend the disadvantaged and protect individual rights.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
TRGPD staff advocate for clients at all stages of the criminal legal process ensuring due process protections and challenging unlawful arrests and prosecutions. TRGPD provides legal defense for individuals criminally charged under two branches of programs - Texas' Operation Lone Star (OLS), a state-led border enforcement initiative and our Traditional Public Defender offices. We disposed of 1076 OLS cases from Sept 2024 to Sept 2025. On our traditional public defender office side, we disposed 1202 cases from Sept 2024 to Sept 2025.
$4,878,282 spent$5,512,250 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,878,282.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $863k (−27%).
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.
1% of TEXAS RIOGRANDE PUBLIC DEFENDER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Geoff Burkhart
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of TEXAS RIOGRANDE PUBLIC DEFENDER’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
TEXAS RIOGRANDE PUBLIC DEFENDER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 TEXAS RIOGRANDE PUBLIC DEFENDER.
“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
98% of TEXAS RIOGRANDE PUBLIC DEFENDER's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 RIOGRANDE PUBLIC DEFENDER's revenue fell 33% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEXAS RIOGRANDE PUBLIC DEFENDER: 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 RIOGRANDE PUBLIC DEFENDER?
- TEXAS RIOGRANDE PUBLIC DEFENDER (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,000 to it, the largest being TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEXAS RIOGRANDE PUBLIC DEFENDER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $510,000 in grants to TEXAS RIOGRANDE PUBLIC DEFENDER.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS RIOGRANDE PUBLIC DEFENDER?
- TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS RIOGRANDE PUBLIC DEFENDER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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