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MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION
MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $899,541 to it, the largest being Paso del Norte Community Foundation ($511,028). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $900k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Medical Center of the Americas Foundation does
Mission
The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized are as follows: (1) to encourage and assist in the establishment of a medical center in el paso, texas; (2) to facilitate and promote medical research and education to address health issues impacting the greater el paso, texas geographic area; (3) to make grants, loans or other distributions to qualified organizations or individuals exclusively to address the health needs of the general population of the greater el paso, texas geographic area; (4) to perform such other services, activities and functions as may be permitted to corporations exempt from tax under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986 (the "code"); and (5) at all times and within such purposes, to operate exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the code.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
This program consists of activities directed to the development of physical infrastructure needed to support the biomedical cluster by establishing the region's first biomedical and healthcare research park, beginning with its anchor building, the cardwell collaborative, as well as providing funding for the construction of texas tech university health sciences center gayle greve hunt school of nursing building. The organization entered into an agreement with the governmental instrumentalities, texas tech health sciences center and the texas tech university system, whereby the organization will provide funding for the construction of building improvements for the gayle greve hunt school of nursing to be operated by texas tech. The grant derives from the impact fund award to the organization made by the city of el paso as described in line 4a above.
$2,035,472 spentof which $682,199 as grants$2,875,960 earned by the program69% of program spendingThis program consists of activities designed to improve the translational research business model and spur regional economic growth by launching new startup companies to advance and commercialize commercially viable inventions from regionally-relevant intellectual property and providing a regional economic engine to position the region as a hub of excellence for global healthcare innovation as well as bringing solutions to the region's health challenges and elevating the quality of healthcare for its residents with potentially advanced life-saving or life-improving technology.
$909,778 spent$1,105,939 earned by the program31% of program spendingThis program is focused on advancing health innovation in the border region.
$24,440 spent$26,190 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,969,690.
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 2022 to 2023, from $14M to $16M (+14%).
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 84% · 2018 88% · 2019 80% · 2020 74% · 2021 66% · 2022 79% · 2023 72% · 2024 72% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% 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
Carlos Ortega
CEO and CFO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $30k → $223k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION’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
MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 36% · 2021 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 90% — diversifying over time.
“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
33% of MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
59% of MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $368k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $531k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Commerce$2.0M
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 MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- McAmericas Realty Inc · exempt
- McA Tech Park Inc · exempt
- McAmericas Holdings Inc · exempt
- McA Revere Realty Inc · exempt
- Bmia Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION?
- MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $899,541 to it, the largest being Paso del Norte Community Foundation ($511,028). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $899,541 in grants to MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION?
- Paso del Norte Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $511,028 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION 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 10 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