Texas · Nonprofit
WEST TEXAS RESPONDERS ALLIANCE
WEST TEXAS RESPONDERS ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,243 to it, the largest being EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $43k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $8k
What West Texas Responders Alliance does
Mission
Our mission is to provide mental health and wellness support to responders, their families, and their employing agencies through informational, educational, social, and clinical channels.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
A peer initiative seeking to improve inter-agency training and mobilization of qualified peers. This outreach aimed to a) facilitate social events and networking events (both live and virtual) to improve interagency functioning; b) identify obstacles to sharing of peer resources and find ways to reduce or eliminate obstacles; c) facilitate collaborative training events to provide skill development and build rapport among peers and peer teams.
$51,519 spent100% of program spendingWtra began a clinicial orientation, supervision, and training (cost) initiative to build regional, multi-discipline, clinical capacity oriented to the wellness and mental health needs of first responders. This effort aims to: a) educate providers regarding the clinical and cultural concepts foundational to succesful work with responders; b) provide or arrange appropriate supervision for clinicians who seek more in-depth capabilities; and c) develop and/or identify appropriate on-going training. To incentivize participation, wtra provides trainings eligible for licensing board professional development hours (pdh) credit.
$0 spent0% of program spendingA care initiative to provide programming and referral services for responders and family members. Programs and service providers are curated to provide trauma-informed counseling, psychological, spirirtual, and non-traditional therapies. Dr. Ontiveros is working directly with several agencies needing to update or improve their peer team functions. Dr. Ontiveros has more than quadrupled the number of providers under her direct supervision in the last two years. The heterogenous group includes mental health clinicians, yoga providers, licensed massage therapists, and a reiki master. Dr. Ontiveros is also directly supervising utep undergraduate, internship students, mental health interns including master's candidates, lpc associates, and a phd candidate for licensed psychologist. Wtra started a spiritual support network of volunteers modeled after the shield a badge program. Wtra launched "I love a responder" book clubs for intimate partners. Wtra is hosting 15 yoga classes per week.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $51,519.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $32k to $19k (−41%).
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.
100% of WEST TEXAS RESPONDERS ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Dr Deborah Ontiveros
CEO
Board chair
Monalisa Garcia Torres
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $6k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 WEST TEXAS RESPONDERS ALLIANCE’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
WEST TEXAS RESPONDERS ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 WEST TEXAS RESPONDERS ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of WEST TEXAS RESPONDERS ALLIANCE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k 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
WEST TEXAS RESPONDERS ALLIANCE's revenue fell 59% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST TEXAS RESPONDERS ALLIANCE?
- WEST TEXAS RESPONDERS ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,243 to it, the largest being EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WEST TEXAS RESPONDERS ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $36,243 in grants to WEST TEXAS RESPONDERS ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST TEXAS RESPONDERS ALLIANCE?
- EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST TEXAS RESPONDERS 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.
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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 2021–2024), and the filings of 2 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