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← TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,444,718
Total expenses
$3,725,232
Contributions and grants received
$2,423,545
Grants paid
$1,505,000
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$7,068
Other revenue
$14,105
Total assets, end of year
$2,460,907
Total liabilities, end of year
$507,165
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,953,742
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$3,296,930
Management and general expenses
$344,366
Fundraising expenses
$83,936
Program service expenses (Part III)
$3,296,930

Program services were 88.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $26,983

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $945

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $2,395,617

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $7,068 · related or exempt $7,068

  • 11a · Other revenue: MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE

    total $14,105 · related or exempt $14,105

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $14,105

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $1,505,000 · program services $1,505,000

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,164,505 · program services $906,819 · management and general $210,746 · fundraising $46,940

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $244,723 · program services $178,988 · management and general $53,761 · fundraising $11,974

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $16,390 · program services $16,390

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $10,364 · management and general $10,364

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $13,809 · fundraising $13,809

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $426,217 · program services $420,157 · management and general $6,060

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $60,219 · program services $46,568 · management and general $11,164 · fundraising $2,487

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $123,739 · program services $99,007 · management and general $20,227 · fundraising $4,505

  • 17 · Travel

    total $75,054 · program services $59,343 · management and general $12,849 · fundraising $2,862

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $12,831 · management and general $12,831

  • 24a · Other expenses: ACTION SUPPORT

    total $38,727 · program services $38,727

  • 24b · Other expenses: TELEPHONE & INTERNET

    total $23,958 · program services $18,525 · management and general $4,443 · fundraising $990

  • 24c · Other expenses: SUPPLIES

    total $5,612 · program services $4,339 · management and general $1,041 · fundraising $232

  • 24d · Other expenses: PRINTING AND COPYING

    total $2,865 · program services $2,216 · management and general $531 · fundraising $118

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $1,219 · program services $851 · management and general $349 · fundraising $19

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $1,171,883 · end of year $804,739

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $1,360,000 · end of year $525,000

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $925,266 · end of year $768,929

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $25,000

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $522,155 · end of year $337,239

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $268,076 · end of year $211,557

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $476,972 · end of year $295,608

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $2,753,604 · end of year $1,534,891

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $480,652 · end of year $418,851

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

See Schedule O

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Texas Organizing Project (TOP) is an explicitly pro-Black organization working to improve the lives of working class Black and Latino Texas families by building power through community organizing and civic engagement. We are a membership based organization of low-moderate income residents, majority Black and Latino, that conducts issue advocacy, lobbying efforts and electoral organizing on behalf of its membership.

  • Community Organizing expenses: TOP organizes low to moderate income families in Harris, Dallas, and Bexar counties. TOP builds networks of community leaders and broad bases of organized residents, equipping them to win tangible policy changes that improve their communities with resounding effects citywide, countywide and statewide. TOP members focus 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.

    Expenses $2,472,698 · Grants $1,505,000

  • Increasing Voter Participation expenses: TOP conducts "get out the vote" (GOTV) field programs in low to moderate income neighborhoods in Harris, Dallas, and Bexar counties to increase their participation in the democratic process.

    Expenses $164,846

  • Leadership Development expenses: TOP provides on-going leadership development opportunities to its members. Organizers work both one-on-one and in group settings with members to learn effective tools and strategies for planning and leading meetings, campaign planning, power analysis, engaging the media, and increasing voter participation in their neighborhoods.

    Expenses $659,386

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Steven Halvorson

    SECRETARY AND TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • EMILY GUZMAN SUFRIN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • DR CAROL LAUTIER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • BRIANNA BROWN

    CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $190,575
    From this org
    $190,575
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $190,575
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $190,575

  • MICHELLE TREMILLO

    CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $191,075
    From this org
    $191,075
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $191,075
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $191,075

  • TIFFANY HOGUE

    POLICY & DEVELOPMENT DIREC

    Total calculated
    $150,529
    From this org
    $150,529
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $150,529
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $150,529

  • JESSICA AZUA FLORES

    SW ORGANIZING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $151,032
    From this org
    $151,032
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,032
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $151,032

  • DANIEL BARRERA

    SW COMMUNICATIONS COORDINA

    Total calculated
    $109,253
    From this org
    $109,253
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • TAON HILL

    FINANCE, HR, LEGAL COMPLIA

    Total calculated
    $137,216
    From this org
    $137,216
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • JOSUE GUILLEN

    TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $136,824
    From this org
    $136,824
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • TERRANCE J KOONTZ

    CULTURAL & ORGANIZATIONAL

    Total calculated
    $121,074
    From this org
    $121,074
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • MEGAN JOY MACIAS

    ELECTORAL STRATEGY COORDIN

    Total calculated
    $109,429
    From this org
    $109,429
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • DAVID J VILLALOBOS

    POLITICAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $124,756
    From this org
    $124,756
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • SHAREEN WOODY

    HUMAN RESOURCES COORDINATO

    Total calculated
    $111,234
    From this org
    $111,234
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • MONICA GUERRA URIBE

    DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

    Total calculated
    $101,666
    From this org
    $101,666
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Related corporations and trusts

Part IV: related organizations taxable as a corporation or trust.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
17 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202503219349315305

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