Texas · Nonprofit
The Defensive Line Inc
The Defensive Line Inc (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $319,750 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $110k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $320k
- Net assets
- $101k
What The Defensive Line Inc does
Mission
The Defensive Line seeks to end the epidemic of youth suicide, especially for young people of color, by telling the truth about it; by transforming the way we communicate and connect about mental health with ourselves and each other.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Defensive Line develops and utilizes workshops for an entire educational institution - its youth, leadership, and administration - that teaches skills to practically build mental resiliency into daily life and how to create space to talk to each other about difficult subjects. Workshops are led primarily by speakers, beginning with its co-founders and chosen guest speakers, who have been impacted by suicide and challenges with their own mental health.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $101k → $27k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 The Defensive Line Inc’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
The Defensive Line Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 The Defensive Line Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 94% — 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
The Defensive Line Inc draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 6 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
The Defensive Line Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,621 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,621 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2021
Organizations like The Defensive Line Inc
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Defensive Line Inc?
- The Defensive Line Inc (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $319,750 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Defensive Line Inc have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $319,750 in grants to The Defensive Line Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of The Defensive Line Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Defensive Line Inc 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 FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 9 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