TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY SERVICES
T.e.j.a.s (Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services) empowers frontline communities to create sustainable, healthy environments by educating residents about pollution and health risks, building community organizing capacity, promoting enforcement of environmental laws, and pursuing policy and legal remedies for environmental injustice.
About TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY SERVICES
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (T.E.J.A.S.) is a Houston-based 501(c)(3) organization that works with frontline and low‑income communities to address industrial pollution, climate impacts, and related health harms through education, organizing, policy advocacy, and legal strategies. The organization emphasizes community-led solutions and youth organizing, offering environmental education, hazard monitoring and rapid response to industrial incidents, and participation in policy and regulatory processes on behalf of affected neighborhoods. T.E.J.A.S. has an established local presence and remains active in regional advocacy and emergency response; it is tax‑exempt (IRS ruling year 2006) and its recent filings show material growth in contributed support and net assets in the 2022–2024 period.
Notable achievements
Sustained Community Emergency Response
Led community response and public communications following industrial incidents (including public statements and local outreach in 2024) and maintained a rapid‑response capacity for pollution events affecting frontline neighborhoods.
Secured Foundation Support
Received multi‑year, institutional grant support from national and regional funders in the 2022–2024 period to expand organizing, education, and capacity‑building programs.
Program Growth and Youth Organizing
Expanded youth organizing and K–12 environmental education partnerships and maintained regular community engagement events (e.g., local eco‑markets and outreach series) to broaden civic participation on environmental issues.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $3.0M
- Annual revenue
- $914K
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 02-0749601
- Location
- Houston, TX
- Website
- www.tejasbarrios.org
- On Mahalo since
- May 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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