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Paso del Norte Community Foundation
PdNCF supports the philanthropic goals of individuals, families, corporations, foundations and nonprofit organizations to improve education, health, social services, economic development, and quality of life in the Paso del Norte region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 119 grants below total $14,403,709 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,243,644 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,839,935 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 $10k36 grants · $252k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+9 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $8,519,451 |
| Regents of the University of California Davis | $500,000 |
| The EPC Museum | $429,444 |
| University of Texas at El Paso | $400,000 |
| Southwest Coalition Inc | $343,115 |
| Quikstudy Learning Center Inc | $274,365 |
| The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | $250,200 |
| UC Davis Foundation | $250,000 |
| Mount Sinai Congregation dba Temple Mount Sinai | $250,000 |
| Loretto Academy in El Paso | $209,500 |
| Boys & Girls Club of El Paso | $182,000 |
| Junior League of El Paso Inc | $181,708 |
| El Paso Child Guidance Center | $144,020 |
| El Paso Children's Hospital Foundation | $109,185 |
| Downtown Deck Plaza Foundation | $105,607 |
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 (FY19–24, $6.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
114 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 13 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $891k 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
- BBakerRipley3× · 2020–2022 · $37M · revenue +16%
- TTTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $14M · revenue +20%
- TUTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2024 · $650k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INCone grant, 2019 · $5.7M · revenue -23% · 89% of their budget
- TTTEXAS TECH LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +55%
- TEThe El Paso Municipal Police Officers' Assocone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
To provide compassionate, coordinated, family-centered care for children with a dedicated commitment to excellent patient outcomes, inclusive leadership and innovative pediatric research and education.
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…
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 provide counseling, therapy and education services to individuals, families and groups.
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…
Professional association of physicians.
The mission of the hispanic chamber of commerce is to continue to be the pre-eminent resource for business and leading advocate in supporting the growth of the el paso border metroplex.
To provide low income housing to the community of el paso, texas.
The mission of the el paso collaborative is to facilitate affordable housing and small business and economic development in el paso and contiguous counties. the collaborative implements its mission by providing loan products and…
Our mission:project bravo builds bridges to opportunities that help individuals and families thrive in our community.
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.
The mission of the advocacy center for the children of el paso is to advocate for child victims of abuse and neglect in the el paso area by providing education and a collaborative, comprehensive and efficient intervention process to seek…
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 Harmonious Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
157 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 157 of the 217 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BakerRipley ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPC MUSEUM DBA LA NUBE ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds El Paso Childrens Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF EL PASO ↗
- Who funds THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF EL PASO INC ↗
- Who funds EL PASO GUIDANCE CENTER INC dba EL PASO CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FEMAP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF EL PASO INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION EL PASO DEL NORTE REGION ↗
- Who funds EL PASO CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Yucca Council Boy Scouts of America ↗
- Who funds University Medical Center Foundation of El Paso ↗
- Who funds CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL AND FAMILY VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds PROYECTO SANTO NINO ↗
- Who funds Kelly Center for Hunger Relief ↗
- Who funds CIUDAD NUEVA COMMUNITY OUTREACH IN ↗
- Who funds THE J CENTER FOR EARLY LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS BORDERPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Texas Cultural Trust Council ↗
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 · The Hunt Family Foundation · Paso del Norte Health Foundation · The Electric Company Charitable Foundation · United Way of El Paso County · Hervey Foundation · Robert E & Evelyn McKee Foundation · The Shiloff Family Foundation · Wilma Donohue Moleen Foundation Xxxxx7003 · Paul L Foster Family Foundation · Gecu Foundation · Alternative House Inc
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 Paso del Norte Community 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.
- National Center for Victims of Crime Inc — 10% of income from government
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.