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Barbara Erdman Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$518k
Granted FY2019
18
Grants FY2019
17
Organizations funded FY2019
65%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 17
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 65% of the organizations Barbara Erdman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $387k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19
Arts & CultureCrime & LegalHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201917$508k65%
FY20189$56k89%
FY20178$22kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Civil Rights$300kArts & Culture$140kHealth$71kEducation$27kFood & Nutrition$23kHuman Services$11kPhilanthropy$11kEnvironment$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc$150,00011%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$150,00010%
National New Deal Preservation Association$35,0002n/a
The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Inc$25,00012%
The Food Depot$22,50030%
AMP Concerts$15,00020%
Moving Arts Espanola Incorporated$11,0002n/a
Reel Fathers Ltd$10,00019%
Cornerstones Community Partnerships$10,00011%
Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library Inc$2,00011%
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All grantees of Barbara Erdman Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc$150,00011%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$150,00010%
National New Deal Preservation Association$35,0002n/a
The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Inc$25,00012%
The Food Depot$22,50030%
AMP Concerts$15,00020%
Moving Arts Espanola Incorporated$11,0002n/a
Reel Fathers Ltd$10,00019%
Cornerstones Community Partnerships$10,00011%
Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library Inc$2,00011%
Arte Flamenco Society Inc$2,0001n/a
Theater Grottesco North America Inc$2,00011%
Pnm Tnmp Foundation$2,00010%
Colores United$1,0001n/a
Assistance Dogs of the West$1,00010%
Listening Horse Therapeutic Riding$5001n/a

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($146k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Barbara Erdman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Food Depot: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMP Concerts: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetReel Fathers Ltd: $10,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCornerstones Community Partnerships: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFriends of the Santa Fe Public Library Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTheater Grottesco North America Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPnm Tnmp Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssistance Dogs of the West: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Santa Fe Community FoundationNM23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Barbara Erdman Foundation

How much does Barbara Erdman Foundation give?
Barbara Erdman Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $517,689 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Barbara Erdman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Civil Rights (50%), Arts & Culture (23%), Health (12%).
Who are Barbara Erdman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc ($150k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($150k), National New Deal Preservation Association ($35k).
Does Barbara Erdman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Barbara Erdman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Barbara Erdman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Barbara Erdman Foundation based?
Barbara Erdman Foundation is based in NM.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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