· Private foundation
Carol J Macguire 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 · $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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 86% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against -27% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 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
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
- 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
- PDPASO DEL NORTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
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 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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Paso Pro-Musica and the most unlike its peers is Borderland Rainbow Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 Carol J Macguire 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.
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