Texas Defense Resource Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
932589234
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Austin, TX, USA
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Crime, Legal Related N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$142,900
Expenses
$55,882
Assets
$134,983

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JENNIFER LAURIN (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JENNIFER LAURIN (PRESIDENT)
  • KAREN ENGLE (SECRETARY and TREASURER)
  • Rachel Rebouche (Board Member)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide legal resources including attorney referrals legal research and strategy assistance and coordination to legal service providers defending individuals or entities in Texas who are threatened with criminal charges or civil lawsuits related to family planning child welfare or access to health care.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided legal resources including attorney referrals legal research and strategy assistance and coordination to legal service providers defending individuals or entities in Texas who are threatened with criminal charges or civil lawsuits related to family planning child welfare or access to health care.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 42
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 77
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 26.7%; rating input score 27
  • Program expense ratio: 68.2%; rating input score 68

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 60.9%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.42; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 34.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 50.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 26.7% of revenue deployed · 68.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.