Texas Organizing Project
San Antonio, TX · EIN 27-1482075. Reported 60 grants totalling $2,510,536 to 50 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 55% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 2% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $575,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
29 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $965,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Organizing Project Political Action Committee | San Antonio, TX | $1,375,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| State Power Action Fund | Youngstown, OH | $92,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Houston in Action Network | Houston, TX | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fixsapd | San Antonio, TX | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Texas Freedom Network | Austin, TX | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Public Policy Priorities | Austin, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cvpe Educational Forum Inc | Houston, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neo Philanthropy Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Voices of Community Activists & Leaders-Vocal-Ny-Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Act 4 Sa- Accountability Compassion & Transparency for San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas for All | Austin, TX | $30,722 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friendship-West Mizpah Foundation | Dallas, TX | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Radical Registrars | San Antonio, TX | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood Advocates of Texas | Austin, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Afiya Center | Dallas, TX | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Texas Power Strategies | San Antonio, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Working Families Organization Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Daughters Across the Diaspora Inc | Red Oak, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jolt Initiative | Austin, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Organization of Chinese Americans Inc | Houston, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Urban Community Network | Houston, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Empower House Sa | San Antonio, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pure Justice | Houston, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Transgender Education Network of Texas | Meadows Place, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Your Vote Texas | San Antonio, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Act 4 Sa Action Fund | San Antonio, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Air Alliance Houston | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Indians in Texas - at the Spanish Colonial Missions | San Antonio, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc | San Antonio, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Common Defense Education Fund Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coolxdad Inc | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| East Harris County Empowerment Council | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Emgage Foundation Inc | Lakeland, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Houston Area Urban League Inc | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mi Familia Vota Education Fund | Phoenix, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Not My Son Limited | Rowlett, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas Federation of the People Foundation | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Dallas Foundation | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| West Street Recovery | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Workers Defense Project Inc | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| We Are Writers Block | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Fairness Project | Washington, DC | $8,814 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Childrens Defense Fund | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Texas for All | San Antonio, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alianza Americas | Chicago, IL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crystal Mason the Fight Against Voter Suppression | Everman, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coalition of Community Organizations | Houston, TX | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
9 of 50 (18%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Texas Organizing Project Political Action Committee
To Support Top PAC's Get Out to Vote Program. - State Power Action Fund
We Make the Future Action will work with Texas Organizing Project for an Implementer Skill Building Series. - Texas Freedom Network
Change law or policy in accordance with the proposal submitted. - Cvpe Educational Forum Inc
Subgrant for parent organizing - Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (vocal-Ny) Inc
To conduct non-partisan activities to increase voter participation. - Houston in Action
To support nonpartisan civic engagement activities within their constituencies in the Fall of 2022.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 of 50 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | $283,814 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 23 | $906,000 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 2 | $355,722 | $177,861 |
| 2024 | 29 | $965,000 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
88% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Texas Organizing Project's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 120296, San Antonio, TX, 78212.
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