Texas Organizing Project Education Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271481855
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2109002901
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,828,062
- Expenses
- $6,493,741
- Assets
- $11,774,676
- Liabilities
- $792,950
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBRA WALKER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DEBRA WALKER (PRESIDENT)
- BONNIE MATHIAS (DIRECTOR)
- MARY GUZMAN (INTERIM TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Texas organizing project education fund (top ed fund) improves the lives of low and moderate income Texas families by building power through community organizing and civic engagement.
What it reported doing in 2024
Public Education and Outreach expenses: The TOP Ed fund identifies issues of concern in low-to-moderate income neighborhoods and partners with experts to provide training, host town hall meetings, and host public forums to promote education and understanding of the community-identified issues and solutions, so that residents have the tools they need to effectively address issues in their community. We conduct outreach and public education on issues such as affordable housing, improving neighborhood infrastructure, improving public schools, jobs and job training, affordable health care, criminal justice reform, and immigrants' rights.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 51% for direct work, and 49% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -69.6%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 12 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.