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The Electric Company Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Amigo Airsho Match$50,000
Texas Tech Foundation Inc$50,000
EPC MUSEUM$50,000
Tech Frontier$50,000
Second Chance Wildlife Rescue$40,000
Teachers in Space Inc$30,000
Junior Achievement Of The Desert Southwest$30,000
Ysleta Education Foundation$27,000
New Mexico State University Foundation Inc$26,250
New Mexico State University Foundation Inc$25,000
Project Arriba Advanced Retraining And Redev Inc$25,000
EL PASO COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM PROJECT BRAVO INC$25,000
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 (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 its 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
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of The Electric Company Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 84%.

The Electric Company Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community En Accion; 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.
05the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 FOUNDATIONNew Mexico State University Foundation Inc: $50,000 · OtherNew Mexico State University Foundation IncAmigo Airsho Match: $50,000 · OtherAmigo Airsho MatchPROJECT 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 ImprovementNGAGE NEW MEXICO: $5,000 · Community ImprovementDREAMSPRING: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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 COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTEACHERS IN SPACE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetEL PASO COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM PROJECT BRAVO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT VIDA HEALTH CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF EL PASO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSTTE Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetMESILLA VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLydia Patterson Institute: $23,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY EN ACCION: $20,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetPROJECT VIDA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS EXCEL EL PASO INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEl Paso Special Needs Education Center dba Every Little Blessing: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLIFTFUND INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EL PASO INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Frontera Land Alliance: $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER-EL PASO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF EL PASO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEl Paso Holocaust Museum & Study Center: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEL PASO VILLA MARIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE BRIDGE OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetMESILLA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWORKFORCE SOLUTIONS BORDERPLEX INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS-DESERT PEAKS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetInsights-El Paso Science Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCREATIVE KIDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER AGAINST SEXUAL AND FAMILY VIOLENCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDRENS GRIEF CENTER OF EL PASO: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetChildren At Risk: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

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

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 The Electric Company Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Electric Company Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 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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