United Way of El Paso County
El Paso, TX · EIN 74-1291051. Reported 118 grants totalling $4,465,175 to 34 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, 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. 34 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. 76% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $36,139. Half of what it reported fell between $21,995 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,002 and the largest $134,382. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
19 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $937,611 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 | $554,035 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Child Crisis Center of El Paso | El Paso, TX | $263,734 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Center Against Sexual and Family Violence Inc | El Paso, TX | $252,593 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Young Womens Christian Association El Paso Del Norte Region | El Paso, TX | $246,900 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Family Service of El Paso Inc | El Paso, TX | $237,545 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| El Pasoans Fighting Hunger | El Paso, TX | $236,647 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| El Paso Center for Children Inc | El Paso, TX | $230,025 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of El Paso | El Paso, TX | $223,588 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Opportunity Center for the Homeless | El Paso, TX | $200,686 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| CASA of El Paso Inc | El Paso, TX | $200,301 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| El Paso Child Guidance Center | El Paso, TX | $172,787 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Paso Del Norte Childrens Development Center | El Paso, TX | $162,738 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Big Brothers-Big Sisters of El Paso Inc | El Paso, TX | $152,394 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services Inc | El Paso, TX | $151,959 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Boy Scouts of America Yucca Council | El Paso, TX | $151,503 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Catholic Counseling Services Inc | El Paso, TX | $140,890 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Creative Kids | El Paso, TX | $139,370 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Salvation Army | El Paso, TX | $131,139 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Grief Center of El Paso | El Paso, TX | $117,985 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Project Arriba Advanced Retraining and Redev Inc | El Paso, TX | $52,410 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Tech Frontier Dba Fab Lab El Paso | El Paso, TX | $40,750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Junor Achievement | El Paso, TX | $30,853 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Chc Creating Healthier Communities | San Antonio, TX | $27,597 | 3 | 3 | 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 |
| Reynolds House | El Paso, TX | $5,002 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
28 of 34 (82%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 - Child Crisis Center of El Paso
EMERGENCY SHELTER, CRISIS NURSERY - Center Against Sexual and Family Violence
CRISIS NURSERY, CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER - 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 the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 18 of 34 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
| 2025 | 19 | $937,611 | $42,683 |
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.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
7 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 21 grants totalling $1,610,732 to United Way of El Paso County. That is 23% of the 30 funders we can see giving to it. Those 7 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a federated giving programme.
6 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paso Del Norte Health Foundation | Texas | $1,281,863 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Rockefeller Foundation | New York | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc | Florida | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Centene Foundation | Missouri | $22,880 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Brave Heart Foundation Inc | Indiana | $3,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jpmorgan Chase Foundation | New York | $2,400 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $89 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $36,139 -- 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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 100 North Stanton Street 500, El Paso, TX, 79901.
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