· Private foundation
Carol J Macguire 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 · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BORDERLAND RAINBOW CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO | $10,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER EL PASO | $9,000 |
| AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM | $5,000 |
| PASO DEL NORTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 86% of its 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -27% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BRBORDERLAND RAINBOW CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +307%
- EPEL PASO PRO-MUSICA4× · 2017–2022 · $7k · revenue +9%
- EPEL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC INC2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- PTPARADOX TRAVELING ART CO EL PASO DEL NORTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- PDPASO DEL NORTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
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 symphony foundation is a separate corporation which provides the el paso symphony orchestra association with charitable and educational support.
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.
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…
To establish charitable funds. To provide a vehicle for donors' varied interests. To promote local philanthropy. To provide leadership and resources in addressing local challenges and opportunities.
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…
To support Santa Fe Concert Association, DBA: Performance Santa Fe
Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.
Our mission:project bravo builds bridges to opportunities that help individuals and families thrive in our community.
To bring musical artists together to perform concerts for the citizens of the city and county of pueblo.
To create a permanent endowment fund to support the el paso museum of art. a portion of the capital appreciation and earnings are distributed annually to the el paso museum of art and used for acquisitions, conservation and preservation,…
To recruit new industry and facilitate the retention and expansion of new jobs and capital investment in the greater el paso, las cruces and juarez region.
Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange exists to promote the health of El Paso County and surrounding communities by facilitating the creation and operation of a health information exchange. The central activity of the organization is…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 17 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 BORDERLAND RAINBOW CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH LIFE SKILLS FORE GREATER EL PASO INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM ↗
- Who funds EL PASO PRO-MUSICA ↗
- Who funds Paso del Norte Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL AND FAMILY VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds EL PASO BORDER YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOC ↗
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 · Robert E & Evelyn McKee Foundation · The Hunt Family Foundation · Paso del Norte Community Foundation · Cesle C & Mamie F Dues Foundation Xxxxx4003 · Sue Smith Harrison Family Foundation · The Electric Company Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carol J Macguire Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carol J Macguire Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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