· Public charity
Mountainstar Sports Group Foundation (Fka El Paso Chihuahuas Foundation)
The chihuahuas foundation concentrates on investments in education, healthcare, art and science, and community-related youth programs throughout the region.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of MOUNTAINSTAR SPORTS GROUP FOUNDATION (FKA EL PASO CHIHUAHUAS FOUNDATION)’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $100,518 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $170,349 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $69,831 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO | $20,000 |
| PADRES FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| A&A ALL THE WAY | $10,000 |
| THE EPC MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| CASA OF EL PASO INC | $7,500 |
| PASO DEL NORTE COMMUNITY FUNDATION | $7,500 |
| HUNGER ENDS HERE | $7,500 |
| EL PASO HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL BOOSTER CLUB | $7,500 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC | $5,518 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Mountainstar Sports Group Foundation (Fka El Paso Chihuahuas Foundation)’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 77% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO2× · 2023–2024 · $40k
- UWUNITED WAY OF EL PASO COUNTY2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue -26%
- EPEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER3× · 2022–2024 · $34k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- PDPASO DEL NORTE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $69k
- GFGECU FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +55%
- EPEL PASO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $11k
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
El paso symphony foundation is a separate corporation which provides the el paso symphony orchestra association with charitable and educational support.
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 inspire, inform and educate our viewer through quality educational programming; while producing superb local programs tailored to our community.
To support healthcare services across the southwest border region through philanthropic and charitable resources.
To present world-renowned musicians with a commitment to artisitic excellence to delight and educate the border region with chamber music.
To provide low income housing to the community of el paso, texas.
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 Center for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is American University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 32 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 Paso del Norte Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EL PASO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER ↗
- Who funds PADRES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EL PASO BORDER YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOC ↗
- Who funds GECU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA FOUNDATION OF METROPOLITAN EL PASO ↗
- Who funds St Edwards University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF EL PASO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Borderland 100 Club ↗
- Who funds THE EPC MUSEUM DBA LA NUBE ↗
- Who funds HUNGER ENDS HERE ↗
- Who funds CASA OF EL PASO INC ↗
- Who funds Child Crisis Center of El Paso Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
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: Robert E & Evelyn McKee Foundation · The Hunt Family Foundation · El Paso Community Foundation · Paso del Norte Community Foundation · Gecu Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Mountainstar Sports Group Foundation (Fka El Paso Chihuahuas 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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