Texas · Private foundation
Paul L Foster Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $22,700
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 23
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Paul L Foster Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 19 | $1.0M | 63% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $573k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $1.9M | 60% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $221k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $785k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $434k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Pasoans Fighting Hunger | $814,202 | 4 | 0% |
| Texas Tribune Inc | $700,000 | 4 | 3% |
| El Paso Zoological Society | $502,500 | 2 | 66% |
| Paso del Norte Children's Development Center | $300,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Amigo Air Sho Inc | $256,824 | 1 | n/a |
| Aspen Art Museum | $245,800 | 1 | 3% |
| Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation | $171,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Aspen Valley Hospital Foundation | $104,300 | 4 | 1% |
| El Paso Matters Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 7% |
| University of Texas at El Paso | $90,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Paul L Foster Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 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: The Hunt Family Foundation · Paso del Norte Community Foundation · El Paso Community Foundation · The Shiloff Family Foundation · Robert E & Evelyn McKee Foundation · Paso del Norte Health Foundation · Feinberg Foundation · Wilma Donohue Moleen Foundation Xxxxx7003 · The Electric Company Charitable Foundation · Sue Smith Harrison Family Foundation · United Way of El Paso County · Union Pacific Foundation
How this is measured
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About Paul L Foster Family Foundation
- How much does Paul L Foster Family Foundation give?
- Paul L Foster Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $1,138,854 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Paul L Foster Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (42%), Arts & Culture (17%), Public Benefit (11%).
- Who are Paul L Foster Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: El Pasoans Fighting Hunger ($814k), Texas Tribune Inc ($700k), El Paso Zoological Society ($503k).
- Does Paul L Foster Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Paul L Foster Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Paul L Foster Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hunt Family Foundation, Paso del Norte Community Foundation, El Paso Community Foundation.
- Where is Paul L Foster Family Foundation based?
- Paul L Foster Family Foundation is based in TX.
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