· Public charity
Paso del Norte Health Foundation
The mission of the Paso del Norte Health Foundation is to lead, leverage, and invest in initiatives, programs, and policies that promote health and prevent disease 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 46 grants below total $11,437,225 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,450,044 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,012,819 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 $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $414k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $3.3M
- $250k+8 grants · $7.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| El Paso Diabetes Association Inc | $2,363,917 |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $1,751,163 |
| The University of Texas at El Paso | $1,469,555 |
| Paso del Norte Community Foundation | $552,241 |
| La Semilla Food Center | $541,670 |
| Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute Inc | $500,000 |
| Kelly Center for Hunger Relief | $289,552 |
| The EPC Museum | $250,000 |
| Project Vida Health Center | $241,824 |
| Common Threads | $240,945 |
| Paso del Norte Children's Development Center | $225,652 |
| Creative Kids | $210,898 |
| Family Service of El Paso | $204,737 |
| Texas A&M University | $199,260 |
| United Way of El Paso County | $196,409 |
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 (FY21–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Grants abroad, by region — $1.4M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: General support
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 Paso del Norte Health 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 8 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $412k 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
- EPEL PASO DIABETES ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +389% · 56% of their budget
- LSLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +451% · 27% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF EL PASO COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +24%
Funded once
- TEThe EPC Museum La Nubeone grant, 2022 · $500k
- DRDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +38%
- EHEmergence Health Network / El Paso MHMRone grant, 2019 · $222k
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 organization provides breast and cervical cancer screening, case management for diagnosed cancer patients, and community education on cancer to low income women that fall under the 200% poverty level and women over 50 that do not have…
Our mission:project bravo builds bridges to opportunities that help individuals and families thrive in our community.
CentroMed is a network of integrated primary care clinics providing accessible services of superior quality.
Clinicas is the safety net provider for Imperial and Eastern Riverside Counties providing primary health care to low income and medically under served populations. We provide comprehensive, preventative and treatment services, pediatric,…
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.
La Familia del Paso provides mental health services for adults and youth.
To present world-renowned musicians with a commitment to artisitic excellence to delight and educate the border region with chamber music.
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.
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
El Centro Family Health (ECFH) is a non-profit New Mexico corporation that provides healthcare services primarily to people living in rural areas of northern New Mexico. ECFH operates primary care medical clinics in the communities of…
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…
Counseling Services offering hope, healing, and restoration to hurting people, marriages, and families using respected therapy practices and solid biblical principles.
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 Tech Frontier Fab Lab El Paso. 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 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 146 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 TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EL PASO DIABETES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Paso del Norte Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EL PASO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF EL PASO INC ↗
- Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES AND YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds EL PASO GUIDANCE CENTER INC dba EL PASO CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Kelly Center for Hunger Relief ↗
- Who funds New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc ↗
- Who funds PASO DEL NORTE CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO INC ↗
- Who funds Yucca Council Boy Scouts of America ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VIDA HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARBOL DE VIDA ↗
- Who funds COMMON THREADS ↗
- Who funds BORDER PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAS CRUCES ↗
- Who funds CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL AND FAMILY VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds El Paso Childrens Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds DESERT SPOON FOOD HUB ↗
- Who funds THE EPC MUSEUM DBA LA NUBE ↗
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: Paso del Norte Community Foundation · El Paso Community Foundation · United Way of El Paso County · The Hunt Family Foundation · The Electric Company Charitable Foundation · Robert E & Evelyn McKee Foundation · Wilma Donohue Moleen Foundation Xxxxx7003 · Hervey Foundation · Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Shiloff Family Foundation · Paul L Foster Family 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 Paso del Norte Health 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.