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The Underserved Communities Foundation Inc

The organization is committed to reducing poverty by empowering the underserved.

$49k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
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 FY20222024.

Human Services$70kFood & Nutrition$30kEducation$20kHousing & Shelter$20kArts & Culture$10kHealth$9k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$277k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION$10,000
EL PASO CENTER FOR CHILDREN$10,000
EL PASO HUMAN SERVICES$10,000
PASO DEL NORTE CENTER OF HOPE$10,000
CHILDRENS GRIEF CENTER$8,500
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 (FY22–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%EL PASO HUMAN SERVICES: $15k → 21%EL PASO HUMAN SERVICES: $10k → 21%EL PASO HUMAN SERVICES: $10k → 21%PROJECT AMISTAD INC: $10k → 21%PASO DEL NORTE CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 21%PASO DEL NORTE CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 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.

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$80k · 3 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$80k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+1%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureEducationHealthOther

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 PASO HUMAN SERVICES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +18%
  • EP
    EL PASO CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +2%
  • PD
    PASO DEL NORTE CENTER OF HOPE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • EP
    EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +18%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • PA
    PROJECT AMISTAD INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +1%

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 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
2
Hospice of El Paso Inc

The mission of hospice of el paso, inc. is to provide interdisciplinary care designed to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients and their families who are coping with terminal illness and resulting losses.

Human Services
3
El Paso Guidance Center Inc dba El Paso Child Guidance Center

Improving the health and well-being of children and families in a safe environment through mental health services, education and awareness.

4
Family Service of El Paso Inc

To provide counseling, therapy and education services to individuals, families and groups.

Human Services
5
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,…

6
Child Crisis Center of El Paso Inc

The mission of the Child Crisis Center is to protect children, newborn through fifteen years of age, from abuse/neglect by providing temporary short-term emergency shelter and family support services.

Human Services
7
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.

8
Guadalupe County Children's Advocacy Center

To advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…

Crime & Legal
9
Kelly Center for Hunger Relief

The organization's mission is to help el pasoans in need address hunger and food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
10
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
11
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
12
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service

Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Paso Center for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Texas Tech Foundation Inc. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EL PASO HUMAN SERVICES INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesEL PASO HUMAN SERVICES INCPASO DEL NORTE CENTER OF HOPE — $20,000 · Human ServicesPASO DEL NORTE CENTER OF HOPEPROJECT AMISTAD INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT AMISTAD INCEL PASO CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $25,000 · OtherEL PASO CENTER FOR CHILDR…UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL…EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER — $30,000 · Food & NutritionEL PASOANS FIGHTING H…EL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationCHILDRENS GRIEF CENTER OF EL PASO — $8,500 · Health
Human Services$65,000Other$35,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Arts & Culture$10,000Education$10,000Health$8,500

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 budgetEL PASO HUMAN SERVICES INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL PASO CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPASO DEL NORTE CENTER OF HOPE — $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPROJECT AMISTAD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS GRIEF CENTER OF EL PASO — $8,500 over 1y, 2.1% 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 Community FoundationTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paso del Norte Community Foundation · Paso del Norte Health Foundation · El Paso Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Underserved Communities Foundation Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Underserved Communities Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Underserved Communities Foundation Inc 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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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