Texas · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $615,460 to it, the largest being ERSHEL FRANKLIN CHARITABLE TRUST ($282,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $615k
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What University Medical Center Foundation of El Paso does
Mission
To support healthcare services across the southwest border region through philanthropic and charitable resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
As the designated fundraising entity for university medical center of el paso (umc), umc foundation raises funds for umc through grants, major gifts and events, with a strategic focus that aligns with the hospital's priorities to improve access to quality healthcare for el paso and the surrounding region. In fy25, the foundation provided $1,074,775 in support to umc through equipment contributions, program funding, and direct assistance to patients. A breakdown of fy25 contributions is provided below. Fy25 - University Medical Center Foundation of El Paso contributions: contributions of equipment - $80,500 for surewash hand hygiene training station which trains and tracks competency of all healthcare workers who care for patients or touch items used by the patients. Follows the 5 steps of the who guidelines to reduce hospital infections. - $18,000 for geriatric carts would provide low-cost, non-pharmacological intervention items that can enhance the overall care of seniors provided at umc, such as: warm blankets, beanies, gloves to improve comfort. Hearing amplifiers, reading glasses, hearing aid batteries to improve patient communication. Large print magazines, coloring books,…
$1,187,123 spentof which $1,069,238 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,187,123.
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 $4.5M to $1.2M (−73%).
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: 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
114% of UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Board chair
Pablo A Magdaleno-Carlos
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $136k → $140k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $422k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Paso del Norte Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO raised.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 82% · 2019 52% · 2020 54% · 2021 45% · 2022 57% · 2023 73% — 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
27% of UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
73% of UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO 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 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $81k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$81k
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 UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- University Medical Center of El Paso · exempt
- El Paso First Health Plan · exempt
- El Paso Children's Hospital Foundation · exempt
- Fundacion Umc de Mexico Iasp · exempt
- El Paso Children's Hospital · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO?
- UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $615,460 to it, the largest being ERSHEL FRANKLIN CHARITABLE TRUST ($282,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $615,460 in grants to UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO?
- ERSHEL FRANKLIN CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $282,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO 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 16 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