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Council on Regional Economic Exp & Educational Development Foundation

Lead efforts to identify and support initiatives that improve college readiness and ensure more students graduate with a college degree or certification.

$482k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$145k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

51% of Council on Regional Economic Exp & Educational Development Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to El Paso Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’17
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’20
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’21
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’22
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’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$7.8MEmployment$395kFood & Nutrition$20kPhilanthropy$20kHealth$10k
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $472k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$145,000
EL PASO MATTERS$105,000
STTE FOUNDATION$100,000
CREEED$62,134
BRIDGE OF SOUTHERN NM$60,000
YOUNG WOMENS PREP NETWORK$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $6.8M → 10%YOUNG WOMENS PREP NETWORK: $10k → 14%CREEED: $165k → 21%BRIDGE OF SOUTHERN NM: $60k → 23%VELA EDUCATION FUND: $300k → 7%STTE FOUNDATION: $100k → 21%CREEED: $73k → 21%CREEED: $62k → 21%CREEED: $35k → 21%EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $20k → 21%EL PASO MATTERS: $105k → 21%PASO DEL NORTE COMMUNITY FNDN: $10k → 21%HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY: $375k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
04Its field

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.

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Council On Regional Economic Exp & Educational Development Foundation

Lead efforts to identify and support initiatives that improve college readiness and ensure more students graduate with a college degree or certification. partner with education leaders, funders, and regional, state, and national…

Education
2
El Paso Education Initiative Inc

The purpose of the organization is to develop and facilitate the implementation of goals and programs that will enhance educational opportunities.

Education
3
El Paso Leadership Academy

The mission of El Paso Leadership Academy is to prepare its students to obtain a four year college degree and to become engaged leaders in their community.

Education
4
El Paso Community College Foundation

The foundation was formed to receive gifts and to invest, manage and distribute such gifts for the benefit of the el paso community college and its students. the foundation promotes education and other related activities of the college.

Education
5
Pasadena Isd Education Foundation

The mission of the pasadena isd education foundation is to collaborate with the school district and community to reward innovative teaching, promote educational excellence, and provide opportunities to recognize the students and staff of…

Education
6
Paso Del Norte Health Information Exchange

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…

Health
7
Education Partnership of the Permian Basin

The organizations mission is to raise awareness and to improve the education of persons living in the Permian Basin.

Education
8
Escuela Popular Del Pueblo

Our family learning center believes that teaching is an act of love through which learning is reciprocal. we develop bilingual, bi-cultural students fully prepared to continue onto higher education and empowered to pursue their goals in a…

Education
9
Chavez Huerta K-12 Preparatory Academy

To provide students a challenging high-quality and diverse K-12 learning environment that develops lifelong learners.

Education
10
Panola Schools

To provide high school curricula for students in grades 8-12. the school operates under an open-enrollment charter granted by the texas board of education and is part of the public school system of texas.

Education
11
El Paso Civic Education Organization

EPCEO is dedicated to promoting civic education and developing leadership skills to strengthen a free and open society, to promoting social welfare, and to conducting educational and outreach activities to low- and moderate-income families.

Human Services
12
Aledo Isd Education Foundation

The aledo isd education foundation partners with the community to provide private resources to enrich teaching, inspire learning, and maximize innovative opportunities for all students in the aledo independent school district.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Paso Matters Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harmony Public Schools. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IDEA Public Schools: $6,812,400 · EducationIDEA Public SchoolsHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $375,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationVELA EDUCATION FUND: $300,000 · PhilanthropyEL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $165,000 · PhilanthropyCOUNCIL ON REGIONAL ECONOMIC EXPANSION & EDUCATIONAL DEV CORP: $334,949 · Crime & LegalPaso del Norte Community Foundation: $110,000 · HealthEL PASO MATTERS INC: $105,000 · Public BenefitTHE BRIDGE OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO: $60,000 · EmploymentEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$7,197,400Philanthropy$465,000Crime & Legal$334,949Health$110,000Public Benefit$105,000Employment$60,000Food & Nutrition$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIDEA Public Schools: $6,812,400 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $375,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON REGIONAL ECONOMIC EXPANSION & EDUCATIONAL DEV CORP: $334,949 over 4y, 57% of budgetVELA EDUCATION FUND: $300,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $165,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPaso del Norte Community Foundation: $110,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEL PASO MATTERS INC: $105,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE BRIDGE OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO: $60,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Council on Regional Economic Exp & Educational Development Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Council on Regional Economic Exp & Educational Development Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $4k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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