How much did PAUL L FOSTER FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Philanthropy$3.3MFood & Nutrition$814kEducation$814kHealth$614kAnimals$508kPublic Benefit$357kArts & Culture$325kCommunity Improvement$71kInternational$70kOther$1.5M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

galakidswalkdrivefilm

2020

covid

2021

aspen

2022

anniversarybusinessaspenmuseumplaza

2023

zooscholarshipachievement

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $38k
$10k–50k7 grants · $144k
$50k–250k4 grants · $400k
$250k+2 grants · $557k

$22,700

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants

PASO DEL NORTE CHILDRENS DEVELOPMENT CENTER$300,000
AMIGO AIRSHO INC$256,824
PASO DEL NORTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$110,000
EL PASO MATTERS$100,000
EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER$100,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO$90,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$25,000
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC$25,000
STARS SCHOLARSHIP FUND$23,500
TEXAS BUSINESS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION$23,000
ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$22,700
THE OPERA COMPANY INC$15,000
EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
HOSPICE OF EL PASO INC$9,756
LAW N PAWS$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.9M · 17 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.9M

$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+58%

Still filing today

88%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $820k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

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

EP
EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER
4× · 2019–2024 · $814k · revenue +1339%
THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
4× · 2019–2022 · $700k · revenue +118%
TB
TEXAS BUSINESS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION
3× · 2019–2024 · $71k · revenue +28%

Funded once

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THE EL PASO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
TA
THE ASPEN ART MUSEUMgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $246k · revenue +183%
TB
TEXAS BUSINESS HALL OF FAME
one grant, 2022 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

El Paso Children's Hospital Corporation

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.

Health

El Paso Symphony Foundation

Corporation that provides the el paso symphony orchestra association with charitable and educational support.

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The Santa Fe Opera

To foster and enrich an understanding and appreciation of the operatic art form.

Arts & Culture

El Paso Pro-Musica

To present world renowed musicians with a commitment to artistic excellence to delight and educate the border region with chamber music.

—

El Paso Matters Inc

Engage in the highest quality independent production, publication and/or distribution of original news and/or news-based materials of community value to far west texas, southern new mexico and northern chihuahua, mexico.

Public Benefit

Taos Art Museum

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El Paso Community College Foundation

The foundation was formed to receive gift and distribute such gifts for the benefit of epcc and its students. the foundation promotes education and other related activities.

Education

El Paso Chamber of Commerce

To support the el paso chamber of commerce as a non-profit charitable organization

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El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the el paso hispanic chamber of commerce is to continue to be the leading advocate in promoting success of el paso small businesses by providing resources, information and education while promoting the awareness and…

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The Epc Museum

The Mission of the El Paso Children's Museum is to launch imagination and spark discovery, by developing and operating a children's museum in El Paso, Texas.

Arts & Culture

El Paso Public Television Foundation Inc

To inspire, inform and educate our viewer through quality educational programming; while producing superb local programs tailored to our community.

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El Paso Education Initiative Inc

To develop and facilitate the implementation of goals and programs that will enhance educational opportunities.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of El Paso and the most unlike its peers is The Aspen Institute Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/40

the rest of the field

11%

1,252/11,347

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.

05the grantee network

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/37

Grantees still filing

27/37

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$3,342,000Other$2,000,680Food & Nutrition$814,202Education$813,500Health$614,300Animals$507,500Public Benefit$356,824

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.

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.

El Paso Community FoundationTX33.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: El Paso Community Foundation · Paso del Norte Community Foundation · The Hunt Family Foundation · Wilma Donohue Moleen Foundation Xxxxx7003 · United Way of El Paso County · Feinberg Foundation · The Sanders Foundation · Robert E & Evelyn McKee Foundation · Paso del Norte Health Foundation · Marathon Petroleum Foundation Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund

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 organisation PAUL L FOSTER FAMILY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: EL PASO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 746064341 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on EL PASO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 66% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Paul L Foster Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Paul L Foster Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

PAUL L FOSTER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Paul L Foster Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

PAUL L FOSTER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Paul L Foster Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph