Texas · Nonprofit
EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER
EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER (Texas) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,827,887 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($14,317,273). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $233M
- Funders on record
- 134
- Grants received
- $38M
- Net assets
- $12M
What El Pasoans Fighting Hunger does
Mission
To combat the hunger crisis in our region by strategically procuring and distributing nutritious food through community partners. Because no one should go hungry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank (the Organization) is a charitable organization approved by the Internal Revenue Service as a Code Section 501(c)3 organization and was established on July 13, 2011 to combat the hunger crisis in our region by strategically procuring and distributing nutritious food through community partners. Years ago, El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank separated from Odessa and became the youngest food bank in the country. The Organization is El Pasos only food bank and is a member of Feeding America. The food bank fulfills its mission through the following programs:SNAP: The Organization is a collaborative hub for hunger initiatives that assists in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP) applications. Social Services Coordinators assist not only with the SNAP program formerly known as Food Stamps, but also with all state benefits such as Medicaid and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). In 2022, 1,595 new enrollees were processed, and 2,849 re-enrollments were certified. With the easing of contact restrictions, offsite hubs were re-established at multiple sites from Vinton in the West to San Elizario in the East.MERCADO: The outdoor Mercado at…
$222,466,590 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $222,466,590.
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 2019 to 2020, from $12M to $54M (+336%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 13% · 2018 13% · 2019 30% · 2020 9% · 2021 15% · 2022 22% · 2023 16% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 66 funders, grant income rose $362k → $5.9M.
17 of 134 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $11M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER raised.
From the IRS filings of EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 134 funders by total. 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
EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 45% · 2019 44% · 2020 29% · 2021 76% · 2022 39% · 2023 57% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 29 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 states 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
EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 42 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 42 food & nutrition nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$1.3M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$85k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER?
- EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER (Texas) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,827,887 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($14,317,273). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER have?
- IRS filings report 134 organizations giving $37,827,887 in grants to EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER, 80 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $14,317,273 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER 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.
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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 134 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing