El Paso Matters Inc

Analysis

El Paso Matters Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in El Paso, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2025. Its declared purposes cover public and societal benefit, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, El Paso Matters Inc reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.5m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.6m (+41%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 71% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, El Paso Matters Inc sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Old Colony Montessori School Inc ($1.6m), Society of St Vincent de Paul St Johns Conference Inc ($1.6m) and Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Inc ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $908k. At year end it held assets of $658k against liabilities of $245k, net assets of $414k.