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BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE

BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,489,794 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico ($735,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.6M
Revenue FY2024
3
Funders on record
$1.5M
Grants received
$829k
Net assets
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Against its field

BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.5M to it.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,197 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($714k)2018 Revenue 95 ($2.4M) Expenses 116 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($711k)2019 Revenue 90 ($2.3M) Expenses 118 ($2.4M) Net assets 78 ($554k)2020 Revenue 93 ($2.3M) Expenses 106 ($2.2M) Net assets 99 ($707k)2021 Revenue 99 ($2.5M) Expenses 112 ($2.3M) Net assets 126 ($901k)2022 Revenue 101 ($2.6M) Expenses 126 ($2.6M) Net assets 121 ($864k)2023 Revenue 96 ($2.4M) Expenses 121 ($2.5M) Net assets 110 ($787k)2024 Revenue 103 ($2.6M) Expenses 123 ($2.6M) Net assets 116 ($829k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (103)Expenses (123)Net assets (116)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,406 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$461k
17
$3k
18
$157k
19
$152k
20
$194k
21
$37k
22
$77k
23
$42k
24
1.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $215k → $208k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 93%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

51% of BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Texas funders.

NM
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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20
21
22
23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 23%Fundraising 1%

Governance

25
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Borderplex Bi-National Economic · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE?
BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,489,794 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico ($735,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,489,794 in grants to BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE?
Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico is the largest funder on record, with $735,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. What this page cannot tell you · view filing