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BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REG
BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REG (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $780,050 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($290,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $316k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $780k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Borderplex Bi-National Economic Alliance Foundation Fka El Paso Reg does
Mission
To support the borderplex regional economic alliance in recruiting new industry and facilitating the retention and expansion of new jobs and capital investment in the greater el paso, las cruces and juarez region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To plan, develop, implement, conduct, fund and/or disseminate information about studies, proposals, programs, and projects that benefit the greater el paso, las cruces and juarez region.
$241,475 spent$164,225 earned by the program100% of program spendingTo plan, develop, implement, conduct, fund and/or disseminate information about studies, proposals, programs, and projects that benefit the greater el paso, las cruces and juarez region.
$507 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $241,982.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $450k to $232k (−48%).
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.
46% of BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REG’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jonathan L Barela
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $170k → $25k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $75k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Paso del Norte Health Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REG raised.
From the IRS filings of BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REG’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REG leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 78% · 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
53% of BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REG's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REG's revenue fell 55% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REG
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Borderplex Bi-National Economic · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REG?
- BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REG (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $780,050 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($290,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REG have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $780,050 in grants to BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REG, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REG?
- THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REG 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 funders 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. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing