United Way of El Paso County
El Paso, TX · EIN 74-1291051. Reported 99 grants totalling $3,527,564 to 32 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For United Way of El Paso County, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 32 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 77% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $34,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $49,780; the smallest was $5,288 and the largest $120,099. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Vida | El Paso, TX | $419,653 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| El Pasoans Fighting Hunger | El Paso, TX | $215,550 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center Against Sexual and Family Violence Inc | El Paso, TX | $193,243 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Child Crisis Center of El Paso | El Paso, TX | $193,199 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| El Paso Center for Children Inc | El Paso, TX | $191,921 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Family Service of El Paso Inc | El Paso, TX | $189,545 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Young Womens Christian Association El Paso Del Norte Region | El Paso, TX | $175,889 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| El Paso Child Guidance Center | El Paso, TX | $172,787 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| CASA of El Paso Inc | El Paso, TX | $158,193 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Opportunity Center for the Homeless | El Paso, TX | $149,043 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of El Paso | El Paso, TX | $148,155 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Catholic Counseling Services Inc | El Paso, TX | $140,890 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | El Paso, TX | $131,139 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Paso Del Norte Childrens Development Center | El Paso, TX | $126,594 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers-Big Sisters of El Paso Inc | El Paso, TX | $109,711 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America Yucca Council | El Paso, TX | $109,503 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services Inc | El Paso, TX | $108,683 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Creative Kids | El Paso, TX | $104,370 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of El Paso | El Paso, TX | $85,833 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Kids Excel El Paso Inc | El Paso, TX | $67,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of the Desert Southwest | El Paso, TX | $60,260 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Girl Scouts of the Desert Southwest Southern New Mexico & W Texas Inc | El Paso, TX | $56,088 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Childrens Grief Center of El Paso | El Paso, TX | $53,885 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tech Frontier Dba Fab Lab El Paso | El Paso, TX | $40,750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Chc Creating Healthier Communities | San Antonio, TX | $27,597 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Project Arriba Advanced Retraining and Redev Inc | El Paso, TX | $25,520 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Americas Best Charities | San Rafael, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | Lubbock, TX | $19,422 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $11,082 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Society of St Vincent De Paul | El Paso, TX | $8,689 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Advocacy Center for the Children of El Paso | El Paso, TX | $7,582 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Reynolds House Non-Profit Corporation | El Paso, TX | $5,288 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
26 of 32 (81%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Project Vida
HOMELESS PREVENTION, EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT, AFTER-SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM - YWCA El Paso Del Norte Region
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORTIVE SERVICES, EARLY LEARNING ACADEMIES - Center Against Sexual and Family Violence
CRISIS NURSERY, CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER - Child Crisis Center of El Paso
EMERGENCY SHELTER, CRISIS NURSERY - El Paso Child Guidance Center
MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTION FOR ABUSED CHILDREN - Family Services of El Paso
HEALTHY LIVING COUNSELING PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 32 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 30 | $1,105,723 | $36,192 |
| 2022 | 23 | $862,406 | $33,147 |
| 2023 | 25 | $713,598 | $26,284 |
| 2024 | 21 | $845,837 | $37,567 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $34,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from United Way of El Paso County's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 100 North Stanton Street 500, El Paso, TX, 79901.
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