Texas · Community foundation
El Paso Community Foundation
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.
- $9.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 111
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 101
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $7.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $19,869
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,699,533
- Organizations funded a year
- 91 to 109
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $88M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations El Paso Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 108 | $7.5M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 101 | $5.6M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 109 | $13M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 104 | $10M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 92 | $5.9M | 37% |
| FY2019 | 91 | $10M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Epc Museum Dba la Nube | $7,013,113 | 6 | 36% |
| One Fund El Paso | $5,771,527 | 1 | n/a |
| Borderplex Community Capital Inc | $5,665,000 | 2 | 100% |
| University of Texas at El Paso | $4,844,376 | 6 | n/a |
| El Paso Special Needs Education Center dba Every Little Blessing | $2,558,820 | 6 | 92% |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $1,525,534 | 5 | 1% |
| El Paso Matters Inc | $1,326,179 | 4 | 51% |
| Foundation for Diocese of EP | $1,237,239 | 4 | n/a |
| Catholic Diocese of Galveston- Houston | $1,125,254 | 6 | n/a |
| Techuplift | $984,985 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 199 grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
El Paso Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 24 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 142 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Paso del Norte Community Foundation · The Hunt Family Foundation · Paso del Norte Health Foundation · United Way of El Paso County · Hervey Foundation · Robert E & Evelyn McKee Foundation · The Electric Company Charitable Foundation · Wilma Donohue Moleen Foundation Xxxxx7003 · The Shiloff Family Foundation · Gecu Foundation · Alternative House Inc · Paul L Foster Family Foundation
How this is measured
About El Paso Community Foundation
- How much does El Paso Community Foundation give?
- El Paso Community Foundation reported 111 itemized grants totaling $7,481,806, out of $8,960,531 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 91 and 109 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does El Paso Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (20%), Health (19%).
- Who are El Paso Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Epc Museum Dba la Nube ($7.0M), One Fund El Paso ($5.8M), Borderplex Community Capital Inc ($5.7M).
- Does El Paso Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as El Paso Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Paso del Norte Community Foundation, The Hunt Family Foundation, Paso del Norte Health Foundation.
- Where is El Paso Community Foundation based?
- El Paso Community Foundation is based in TX.
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