Texas · Nonprofit
TEXAS WATCH
TEXAS WATCH (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,130,582 to it, the largest being TEXAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION ($522,693). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
TEXAS WATCH is better cushioned than half of the 3,119 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,119 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Dr George H Kilpatrick Memorial Trustshared funders
- Texas for Allportfolio match
- Texans for Lawsuit Reformportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of TEXAS WATCH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $160k → $213k.
From the IRS filings of TEXAS WATCH’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 WATCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 TEXAS WATCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 52% · 2019 51% · 2020 52% · 2021 63% · 2022 52% · 2023 39% — 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
100% of TEXAS WATCH's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Dr George H Kilpatrick Memorial Trustshared fundersIL · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Texas for Allportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texans for Lawsuit Reformportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Organizing Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Freedom Network Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Organizing Project Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fwdus Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Care in Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youth Emergency Servicesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 128 Collective Initiatives Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ground Game Texasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- See Forward Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like TEXAS WATCH
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Texas Watch Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEXAS WATCH: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds TEXAS WATCH?
- TEXAS WATCH (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,130,582 to it, the largest being TEXAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION ($522,693). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEXAS WATCH have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,130,582 in grants to TEXAS WATCH, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS WATCH?
- TEXAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $522,693 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS WATCH 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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing