· Private foundation
Bowling Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +101%
- HOHOUSE OF HOPEone grant, 2017 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bowling Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bowling Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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