· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $150,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $150,000 |
| NM PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $60,000 |
| NATL NEW DEAL PRESERVATION ASSOC | $27,000 |
| SANTA FE SYMPHONY | $25,000 |
| NM MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FOOD DEPOT | $15,000 |
| SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CORNERSTONES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS | $10,000 |
| MOVING ARTS ESPANOLA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SF CONSERVATION TRUST | $6,000 |
| ESPANOLA HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,150 |
| AMP CONCERTS | $5,000 |
| SF COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +84% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $387k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NPNM PLANNED PARENTHOOD2× · 2018–2019 · $70k
- NNNATIONAL NEW DEAL PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2019 · $35k
THE FOOD DEPOT3× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- RFREEL FATHERS LTDone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -28%
- NMNMC-NATL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TGTheater Grottesco North America Incone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -44%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Shows the culture of the American southwest
Santa fe pro musica brings together outstanding musicians to inspire and educate audiences of all ages through the performance of great music.
Mission is to promote, present and preserve hispanic arts & culture of nm. showcasing, encourging & supporting participation of hispanics in local arts economy; and presenting creative & cultural richness of our heritage, including arts &…
The santa fe botanical garden celebrates, cultivates and conserves the rich botanical heritage and biodiversity of our region. in partnership with nature, we demonstrate our commitment through education, science, conservation, community…
To present, in a rotating repertory, the finest latin american, spanish, and latino usa theatre and to serve as a catalyst for cultural exchange between spanish and english speaking americans.
The mission of nif is to preserve and promote flamenco's artistry, history, and culture by presenting the finest flamenco in the world and by educating the american family in this art form while emphasizing the positive influence of art on…
Art of Opera is dedicated to creating opera, music theater and multimedia based projects, commissioning composers to compose and arrange music for small chamber concerts and supporting the release of recordings.
The Program is to offer professional dance education and discipline
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pnm Tnmp Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds AMP Concerts ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOVING ARTS ESPANOLA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds REEL FATHERS LTD ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds Theater Grottesco North America Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SANTA FE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds PNM TNMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORES UNITED ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds Listening Horse Therapeutic Riding ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Barbara Erdman Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.