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Robert E & Evelyn McKee Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$467k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$771kHuman Services$487kAnimals$375kArts & Culture$373kEducation$371kReligion$253kYouth Development$218kFood & Nutrition$214kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $384k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAW N' PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE$44,800
THE CHURCH OF ST CLEMENT$30,400
Individual grant recipient$30,000
TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSP FOR CHILDR$30,000
COMPADRES THERAPY INC$26,000
PAGE ROBBINS ADULT DAY CARE$25,000
THE MUSTARD SEED - A COMMUNITY CAFE$20,000
EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER$20,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EL PASO$20,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO$17,900
EVERY LITTLE BLESSING PRESCHOOL$15,000
Guardians Institute$15,000
PASO DEL NORTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$10,000
WALDORF OF NEW ORLEANS$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 5%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS INC: $8k → 16%THE FOOD DEPOT: $5k → 12%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS INC: $8k → 16%CHILD CRISIS CENTER OF EL PASO: $10k → 21%RESCUE MISSION OF EL PASO: $6k → 21%RESCUE MISSION OF EL PASO: $2k → 21%RESCUE MISSION OF EL PASO: $2k → 21%RESCUE MISSION OF EL PASO: $1k → 21%RESCUE MISSION OF EL PASO: $1k → 21%RESCUE MISSION OF EL PASO: $1k → 21%RESCUE MISSION OF EL PASO: $1k → 21%RESCUE MISSION OF EL PASO: $1k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 81 repeat orgs$429k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

81 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
47

Total granted

$3.1M
$352k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+38%

Still filing today

43%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TS
    TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $208k · revenue +145%
  • CT
    COMPADRES THERAPY INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $106k · revenue +91%
  • EP
    EL PASO GUIDANCE CENTER INC dba EL PASO CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +445%

Funded once

  • SF
    ST FRANCIS ON THE HILL EPISCOPAL CH
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • IA
    I'M ALMOST HOME RESCUE
    one grant, 2022 · $21k
  • UM
    University Medical Center Foundation of El Pasograduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +225%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
El Paso Human Services Inc

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…

Human Services
2
El Paso Matters Inc

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.

Public Benefit
3
El Paso Symphony Foundation

El paso symphony foundation is a separate corporation which provides the el paso symphony orchestra association with charitable and educational support.

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4
El Paso Chamber of Commerce Foundation

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…

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5
El Paso County Medical Society

Professional association of physicians.

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6
Paso Del Norte Health Information Exchange

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…

Health
7
El Paso Coalition for the Homeless Inc

The coalition is designated as the lead entity by hud for dozens of agencies and indivduals who provide housing, services, and support to the homeless community in el paso and carries out the responsibility of leading and managing the…

Housing & Shelter
8
El Paso Civic Education Organization

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.

Human Services
9
Justice for Our Neighbors El Paso

Jfon el paso is a faith-based ministry providing affordable, high-quality immigration legal services and advocating for immigrants rights in west texas and southern new mexico

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10
Advocacy Center for the Children of El Paso

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…

Crime & Legal
11
El Paso County Search and Rescue Inc

El paso county search and rescue is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to saving lives through search, rescue, and education.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
El Paso County Historical Society

The purpose of the society shall be to study in all its aspects the history of the city and county of el paso, and of the surrounding territory; to conduct and foster research in the history of the area; to acquire and preserve documents,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Paso Center for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is State Fair of Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 137 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
37/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHURCH OF ST CLEMENT: $165,900 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF ST CLEMENTPAGE ROBBINS ADULT DAY CARE: $119,700 · OtherLAW N' PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE: $102,800 · OtherTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENC: $95,000 · Other+108 more: $2,034,775 · Other+108 moreTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $208,238 · HealthTEXAS SCOT…Down Syndrome Coalition for El Paso: $45,200 · HealthDown Syndr…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $40,000 · HealthSHRINERS H…University Medical Center Foundation of El Paso: $20,000 · HealthUniversity…PASO DEL NORTE CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF EL PASO INC: $129,500 · AnimalsEl Paso Zoological Society: $56,037 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF EL PASO INC: $6,704 · Animals+2 more: $8,500 · AnimalsEL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC INC: $56,000 · Arts & CultureArtSMART: $43,883 · Arts & CultureRoswell Symphony Orchestra Inc: $35,000 · Arts & CultureKIDS EXCEL EL PASO INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFilm Society of Austin Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCOMPADRES THERAPY INC: $106,100 · Community ImprovementEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $64,000 · Food & NutritionKelly Center for Hunger Relief: $21,670 · Food & NutritionMUSTARD SEED - A COMMUNITY CAFE: $20,000 · Food & NutritionSTATE FAIR OF TEXAS: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsYOUTH LIFE SKILLS FORE GREATER EL PASO INC: $27,500 · Recreation & SportsEL PASO BORDER YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOC: $18,500 · Recreation & SportsMOMS ON BOARD: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsLittle League of New Orleans: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,518,175Health$338,438Animals$200,741Arts & Culture$164,883Community Improvement$106,100Food & Nutrition$105,670Recreation & Sports$101,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $208,238 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF EL PASO INC: $129,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetCOMPADRES THERAPY INC: $106,100 over 7y, 12% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EL PASO INC: $81,500 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetEL PASO GUIDANCE CENTER INC dba EL PASO CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER: $81,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $64,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREYNOLDS HOUSE NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $61,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetBRADEN ABOUD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetEl Paso Zoological Society: $56,037 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetEL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC INC: $56,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO INC: $45,900 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSTATE FAIR OF TEXAS: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetArtSMART: $43,883 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCIUDAD NUEVA COMMUNITY OUTREACH IN: $40,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetRoswell Symphony Orchestra Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetYOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST: $30,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetYOUTH LIFE SKILLS FORE GREATER EL PASO INC: $27,500 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetKelly Center for Hunger Relief: $21,670 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetEL PASO BRIDGES ACADEMY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMUSTARD SEED - A COMMUNITY CAFE: $20,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetUniversity Medical Center Foundation of El Paso: $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetEL PASO BORDER YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOC: $18,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetPASO DEL NORTE CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS EXCEL EL PASO INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRECORDING LIBRARY OF WEST TEXAS: $15,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetGuide Dogs of Texas Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFilm Society of Austin Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF EL PASO INC: $14,963 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCANDLELIGHTERS OF THE EL PASO AREA: $13,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetPrevent Blindness Texas: $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetChild Crisis Center of El Paso Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SANTA FE GIRLS' SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPaso del Norte Community Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Southern New Mexico: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL PASO LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBooks Are Gems: $9,500 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetABARA INC: $7,750 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF EL PASO INC: $6,704 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEL PASO PRO-MUSICA: $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCASA OF EL PASO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOMS ON BOARD: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF EL PASO INC ↗
  • Who funds COMPADRES THERAPY INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EL PASO INC ↗
  • Who funds EL PASO GUIDANCE CENTER INC dba EL PASO CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER ↗
  • Who funds REYNOLDS HOUSE NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BRADEN ABOUD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds El Paso Zoological Society ↗
  • Who funds EL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO INC ↗
  • Who funds STATE FAIR OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds ArtSMART ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds CIUDAD NUEVA COMMUNITY OUTREACH IN ↗
  • Who funds Roswell Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH LIFE SKILLS FORE GREATER EL PASO INC ↗

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.

El Paso Community FoundationTX55.1× affinity24 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 · The Shiloff Family Foundation · Hervey Foundation · Wilma Donohue Moleen Foundation Xxxxx7003 · United Way of El Paso County · Feinberg Foundation · Cesle C & Mamie F Dues Foundation Xxxxx4003 · Paso del Norte Health Foundation · Alternative House Inc · Paul L Foster Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert E & Evelyn McKee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert E & Evelyn McKee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Robert E & Evelyn McKee Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 137 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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