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Binns Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NMSU FOUNDATION | $10,440 |
| DONALD KEMP KIDS OF THE SOUTHWEST | $9,756 |
| LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $9,304 |
| RIO GRANDE ROTARY CLUB | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| MESILLA VALLEY HOSPICE | $2,000 |
| MESILLA VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| ST ANDREWS EPISOPEL CHURCH | $1,500 |
| MESILLA VALLEY SEARCH AND RESCUE | $1,400 |
| NM STATE POLICE FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| LA CASA INC | $1,000 |
| TUTTI BAMBINI | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION 10 POST | $1,000 |
| CRUCES GYMNASTICS ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +24% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- NMNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $19k · revenue +38%
- MVMESILLA VALLEY HOSPICE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +6%
- MVMESILLA VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- HDHIGH DESERT WOMEN'S CENTERone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
- DADONA ANA 4-Hone grant, 2023 · $2k
- CFCOWBOYS FOR CANCER RESEARCH INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -48%
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.
Support financially las cruces catholic school to ensure all students that want to attend the school regardless of financial means can attend.
To reduce the population of unwanted animals in the las cruces area.
A regional Chamber committed to improving the quality of community life driven by business leadership mentorship advocacy and prosperity.
Recreation youth development
Saving animals from euthanasia, resulting in healthy pets being adopted.
To provide financial assistance to law enforcement related organizations, personnel and their families.
Provide essential services to homeless persons including food clothing toiletries bedding shelter when available referrals to other service providers
To support healthy violence-free lives and relationships for all children and adults in the San Luis Valley by providing crisis intervention services advocacy and counseling for victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
La cosecha's mission is to ensure equitable access to healthy food, provide nutrition education, and foster growth and investment in community-driven markets. these efforts aim to support the development of a just, sustainable, and…
To educate and assist the community regarding organ and tissue donation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Peregrinos and the most unlike its peers is Tutti Bambini. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 50 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 New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc ↗
- Who funds MESILLA VALLEY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MESILLA VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TUTTI BAMBINI ↗
- Who funds CRUCES GYMNASTICS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO CONSTRUCTION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JARDIN DE LOS NINOS INC ↗
- Who funds REVOLUTION 120 INC ↗
- Who funds MESILLA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Community Options Inc ↗
- Who funds LA CASA INC ↗
- Who funds DONA ANA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CASA DE PEREGRINOS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LAS CRUCES MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds COWBOYS FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico · Lockheed Martin Employee Charity Fund · The Crebilly Foundation · Stellar Solutions Foundation · Network for Good · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Binns Family 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.
- Community Options Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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