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TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND

EIN 27-1481855 SAN ANTONIO, TX

Revenue 2024
$3,828,062
Expenses 2024
$6,493,741

Program services were 80.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 120296

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

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.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Texas Organizing Project Education Fund (TOPEF) is an explicitly pro-Black organization with the mission of improving the lives of low-income working class Black and Latino Texas families building power through community organizing and civic engagement.

  • Civic Engagement expenses: TOP Ed Fund increases civic engagement in low and moderate income neighborhoods in Harris, Dallas, and Bexar counties. TOP Ed Fund encourages families to become informed and active participants in their communities and at all levels of government by informing them of the organizational structure of the local governments (city and county), their respective areas of authority; how decisions are made and how and when public meetings and hearings are conducted where they can participate and express their concerns.

    Expenses $1,040,246

  • 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.

    Expenses $2,860,676 · Grants $2,543,766

  • Leadership Development expenses: TOP Ed Fund Community Organizers identify community residents with leadership potential in our targeted low-to-moderate income neighborhoods. Organizers work both one-on-one and in group settings with residents to increase their community outreach skills and how to effectively engage their neighbors in joining their efforts to improve their neighborhoods. Residents also learn effective tools and strategies for planning and leading meetings, issue-campaign planning, engaging the media, and increasing civic participation in their neighborhoods.

    Expenses $1,300,307

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • DEBRA WALKER

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • BONNIE MATHIAS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MARY GUZMAN

    INTERIM TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • RODNEY MCKENZIE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • ANDREA OSORIO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,828,062
    Expenses
    $6,493,741
    Contributions
    $3,678,942
    Grants paid
    $2,543,766
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,416,849
    Expenses
    $5,375,753
    Contributions
    $7,294,089
    Grants paid
    $672,061
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,764,243
    Expenses
    $4,684,448
    Contributions
    $5,690,153
    Grants paid
    $1,110,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,262,935
    Expenses
    $4,374,339
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,378,036

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,059,893
    Expenses
    $4,228,126
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,048,110

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,832,130
    Expenses
    $3,129,945
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,767,239

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,303,036
    Expenses
    $4,030,312
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,470,364

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,415,054
    Expenses
    $3,019,322
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,814,558

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,468,525
    Expenses
    $1,585,644
    Assets (EOY)
    $356,409

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,669,801
    Expenses
    $1,553,626
    Assets (EOY)
    $580,949

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $854,280
    Expenses
    $924,849
    Assets (EOY)
    $478,980

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,383,776
    Expenses
    $1,224,915
    Assets (EOY)
    $822,517

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,378,288
    Assets (EOY)
    $315,459

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • Texas Organizing Project

    $800,000

    2022 To support non-partisan activities to increase voter participation in November 2022 election.

  • SA Justice Charter PAC

    $272,000

    2023 For activities in support of the San Antonio Justice Charter Amendment.

  • Restoring Justice

    $225,000

    2023 Founded in 2016, Restoring Justice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Houston, Texas that provides holistic and client-centered representation to marginalized members of our community facing criminal charges.

  • Children's Defense Fund

    $180,000

    2022 The Grant Funds are a subgrant from Community Catalyst, Inc. and are to be used exclusively to fund the activities of the Project in accordance with the proposal and any addendum submitted to Community Catalyst, Inc. and all subsequent correspondence and proposal revisions submitted to and approved by Community Catalyst in writing

  • Every Texan - previously known as Center for Public Policy Priorites

    $100,000

    2022 The Grant Funds are a subgrant from Community Catalyst, Inc. and are to be used exclusively to fund the activities of the Project in accordance with the proposal and any addendum submitted to Community Catalyst.

  • VOCAL

    $40,000

    2023 Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-TX) is a statewide grassroots membership organization that builds power among low-income people affected by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness in order to create healthy and just communities.

  • Register 2 Vote

    $25,000

    2022 General Operation Support towards their mission.

  • Daughters Across The Dispora

    $25,000

    2023 The Mission of Daughters Across The Diaspora is to build up our communities through providing economic and community development services to young Black women who want to be the change they want to see.

  • By Any Means 104

    $25,000

    2023 The Mission of By Any Means 104: a grass-roots initiative that builds garden boxes at the homes of community members in 76104, which is a zip code with one of the lowest life expectancies in the nation.

  • URBAN COMMUNITY NETWORK

    $15,000

    2023 Urban Community Network is a non-profit organization whose mission is to build safe, healthy, sustainable communities where youth and their families can thrive.

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

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Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.