· Private foundation
Bowling Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $147k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF EL PASO | $83,500 |
| SOUTHWEST COALITION | $60,000 |
| KINGDOM OF CHRIST MINISTRY | $30,050 |
| PASO DEL NORTE COMMUNITY FNDN | $30,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| FREEDOM IN CHRIST RESIDENTIAL CENT | $24,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $13,200 |
| SOCIETY ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $13,000 |
| EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER | $12,000 |
| OUR LADYS YOUTH CENTER | $6,500 |
| EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- EPEL PASO VILLA MARIA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $272k · revenue +92%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EP5× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +11%
- SCSOUTHWEST COALITION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- SMSAINT MATTHEW CATHOLIC PARISHone grant, 2017 · $300k
- EPEL PASO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +68%
- HOHOUSE OF HOPEone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
El paso center for children, inc's purpose is to provide homes for dependent and neglected children and an array of support services for emotionally disturbed children, adolescents, and their families. the organization operates entirely in…
The coalition is designated as the lead entity by hud for dozens of agencies and indivduals who provide housing, services, and support to the homeless community in el paso and carries out the responsibility of leading and managing the…
El paso human services, inc. (ephsi), a private non-profit multi-purpose organization, has been providing social services in el paso county since 1984. ephsi has extensive experience in developing, implementing and executing federal, state…
Counseling Services offering hope, healing, and restoration to hurting people, marriages, and families using respected therapy practices and solid biblical principles.
The mission of hospice of el paso, inc. is to provide interdisciplinary care designed to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients and their families who are coping with terminal illness and resulting losses.
The mission of the el paso collaborative is to facilitate affordable housing and small business and economic development in el paso and contiguous counties. the collaborative implements its mission by providing loan products and…
The el paso chamber exists to operate exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific, and literary purposes relating to the city of el paso. the chamber foundation serves as its supporting organization to pursue grants to fund…
Engage in the highest quality independent production, publication and or distribution of orginial news and or news-based materials of community value to far west texas, southern new mexico and northern chihuahua, mexico.
To provide low income housing to the community of el paso, texas.
Jfon el paso is a faith-based ministry providing affordable, high-quality immigration legal services and advocating for immigrants rights in west texas and southern new mexico
The mission of the Child Crisis Center is to protect children, newborn through fifteen years of age, from abuse/neglect by providing temporary short-term emergency shelter and family support services.
El Buen Samaritano an outreach ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas serving the Latino community of Central Texas is committed to recognizing the dignity of all by ensuring access to health care education and essential needs that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Paso Villa Maria Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southwest Coalition Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EL PASO VILLA MARIA INC ↗
- Who funds Freedom In Christ Residential Centers ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EP ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds EL PASO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER ↗
- Who funds Paso del Norte Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LABOURE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EL PASO DOWNTOWN LIONS CLUB ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF EL PASO INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: El Paso Community Foundation · Paso del Norte Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bowling Family Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.