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The Electric Company Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$360k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.

Philanthropy$786kEducation$550kCommunity Improvement$209kArts & Culture$135kEmployment$110kYouth Development$95kEnvironment$85kFood & Nutrition$85kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $612k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $324k
  • $250k+1 grant · $360k
$12,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$72k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Blackbaud Giving Fund$359,788
United Way$74,435
New Mexico State University Foundation Inc$50,000
EPC MUSEUM$50,000
Tech Frontier$50,000
Texas Tech Foundation Inc$50,000
Amigo Airsho Match$50,000
Second Chance Wildlife Rescue$40,000
Junior Achievement Of The Desert Southwest$30,000
Teachers in Space Inc$30,000
Ysleta Education Foundation$27,000
New Mexico State University Foundation Inc$26,250
EL PASO COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM PROJECT BRAVO INC$25,000
UT Foundation$25,000
Paso Del Norte Community Foundation$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–24, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Womens Economic Self-Sufficiency Team Corp: $15k → 14%Womens Economic Self-Sufficiency Team Corp: $15k → 14%Cruces Creatives: $4k → 23%Lee & Beulah Moor Children's Home: $5k → 21%Family Service of El Paso Inc: $25k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of The Electric Company Charitable 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. Read by recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 84% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Electric Company Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.8% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 26 repeat orgs$634k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
31

Total granted

$1.2M
$311k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+7%

Still filing today

88%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $323k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEmploymentOther

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

  • NM
    New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $141k · revenue +198%
  • TE
    THE EPC MUSEUM DBA LA NUBE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +649%
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • EP
    EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +7%
  • KC
    Kelly Center for Hunger Relief
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +16%
  • CE
    COMMUNITY EN ACCION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -66%

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.

1
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
2
Borderplex Bi-National Economic Alliance

To recruit new industry and facilitate the retention and expansion of new jobs and capital investment in the greater el paso, las cruces and juarez region.

Community Improvement
3
Council On Regional Economic Exp & Educational Development Foundation

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…

Education
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 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
6
El Paso Pro-Musica

To present world-renowned musicians with a commitment to artisitic excellence to delight and educate the border region with chamber music.

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7
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
8
El Paso Center for Children Inc

El paso center for children, inc's purpose is to provide homes for dependent and neglected children and an array of support services for emotionally disturbed children, adolescents, and their families. the organization operates entirely in…

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9
El Paso Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
10
Borderplex Community Capital Inc

To provide safe and affordable capital and education by providing in the Borderplex region, which comprises El Paso County, Texas, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, and Cd. Juarez, Mexico, exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific and…

Community Improvement
11
El Paso Education Initiative Inc

The purpose of the organization is to develop and facilitate the implementation of goals and programs that will enhance educational opportunities.

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community En Accion 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 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr13%8%5–10yr16%23%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr12%17%35–55yr18%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%3%<5yr13%3%5–10yr16%45%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr12%6%35–55yr18%25%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
15%
404/2,688

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

66 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. 66 of the 81 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
32/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNITED WAY INC — $176,123 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCYSLETA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $54,000 · OtherYSLETA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONAmigo Airsho Match — $50,000 · OtherAmigo Airsho MatchNew Mexico State University Foundation Inc — $50,000 · OtherNew Mexico State University Foundation IncPROJECT ARRIBA — $50,000 · OtherPROJECT ARRIBASECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE RESCUE — $52,650 · OtherSECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE RESCUEJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST — $40,000 · Other+37 more — $372,000 · Other+37 moreTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND — $556,081 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND+1 more — $15,000 · PhilanthropyNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc — $141,250 · EducationNew Mexico State Un…TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATI…DR KAREN M TRUJILLO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $45,000 · EducationDR KAREN M TRUJILLO…EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationEL PASO COMMUNITY C…TEACHERS IN SPACE INC — $30,000 · EducationTEACHERS IN SPACE I…STTE Foundation — $25,000 · EducationSTTE FoundationLydia Patterson Institute — $23,500 · EducationLydia Patterson Ins…+4 more — $22,500 · Education+4 moreTHE EPC MUSEUM DBA LA NUBE — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EPC MU…TECH FRONTIER FAB LAB EL PASO — $75,000 · Arts & CultureTECH FRONT…KIDS EXCEL EL PASO INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureKIDS EXCEL…El Paso Holocaust Museum & Study Center — $10,000 · Arts & CultureInsights-El Paso Science Center Inc — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePaso del Norte Community Foundation — $45,000 · HealthPRO-ACTION INC — $35,000 · HealthPROJECT VIDA HEALTH CENTER — $25,000 · HealthMEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthCHILDRENS GRIEF CENTER OF EL PASO — $10,000 · HealthDYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO — $5,000 · HealthEL PASO COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM PROJECT BRAVO INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementMESILLA VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE — $25,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY EN ACCION — $20,000 · Community ImprovementLIFTFUND INC — $15,000 · Community ImprovementREBUILDING TOGETHER-EL PASO INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN LAS CRUCES PARTNERSHIP — $10,000 · Community ImprovementDREAMSPRING — $5,000 · Community ImprovementNGAGE NEW MEXICO — $5,000 · Community ImprovementEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER — $50,000 · Food & NutritionKelly Center for Hunger Relief — $30,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$919,773Philanthropy$571,081Education$412,250Arts & Culture$225,000Health$130,000Community Improvement$115,000Food & Nutrition$80,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND — $556,081 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC — $176,123 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc — $141,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EPC MUSEUM DBA LA NUBE — $100,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTECH FRONTIER FAB LAB EL PASO — $75,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetYSLETA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $54,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE RESCUE — $52,650 over 2y, 22% of budgetPROJECT ARRIBA — $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDR KAREN M TRUJILLO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetPaso del Norte Community Foundation — $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST — $40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPRO-ACTION INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTEACHERS IN SPACE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKelly Center for Hunger Relief — $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetEL PASO COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM PROJECT BRAVO INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMESILLA VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSTTE Foundation — $25,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF EL PASO INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPROJECT VIDA HEALTH CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLydia Patterson Institute — $23,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT VIDA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY EN ACCION — $20,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetKIDS EXCEL EL PASO INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLIFTFUND INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEl Paso Special Needs Education Center dba Every Little Blessing — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Frontera Land Alliance — $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EL PASO INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORKFORCE SOLUTIONS BORDERPLEX INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER-EL PASO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMESILLA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCREATIVE KIDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS-DESERT PEAKS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BRIDGE OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO — $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetEL PASO VILLA MARIA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER AGAINST SEXUAL AND FAMILY VIOLENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF EL PASO — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDRENS GRIEF CENTER OF EL PASO — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetChildren At Risk — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEl Paso Holocaust Museum & Study Center — $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetInsights-El Paso Science Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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.

Paso del Norte Commun…The Hunt Family Found…El Paso Community Fou…Gecu FoundationHervey FoundationUnited Way of El Paso…Paso del Norte Health…The Blackbaud Giving …Wilma Donohue Moleen …The Shiloff Family Fo…Sue Smith Harrison Fa…Robert E & Evelyn McK…
Paso del Norte Community FoundationTX58.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paso del Norte Community Foundation · The Hunt Family Foundation · El Paso Community Foundation · Gecu Foundation · Hervey Foundation · United Way of El Paso County · Paso del Norte Health Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Wilma Donohue Moleen Foundation Xxxxx7003 · The Shiloff Family Foundation · Sue Smith Harrison Family Foundation · Robert E & Evelyn McKee 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 The Electric Company Charitable 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Electric Company Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Electric Company Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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