· Private foundation
Bolene Charitable Trust
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST ELIZABETH SHELTERS | $2,000 |
| THE FOOD DEPOT | $1,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS | $1,000 |
| BAG AND HAND PANTRY | $1,000 |
| KITCHEN ANGELS | $1,000 |
| THINK NEW MEXICO | $1,000 |
| SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| KNME TVUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $500 |
| CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS | $500 |
| LA FAMILIA MEDICAL CENTER | $500 |
| GROWING UP NEW MEXICO | $500 |
| THE LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $500 |
| SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +93% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- MOMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +79%
THE FOOD DEPOT9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +84%- KAKITCHEN ANGELS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- SJST JOHNS UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $1k
- WJWICHITA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +12%
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue -28%
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.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Northern new mexicans protecting land water and rights strives to lessen the stress of neighborhood tensions due to lack of information and fair representation. by providing an organization whose main goal is to unite and empower the…
The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico serves as a community resource, connects donors to needs, and supports charitable organizations in their work.
Cvnm education fund is a statewide, nonpartisan nonprofit committed to engaging the people of new mexico in our long-standing shared values of protecting our air, land, water, and the health of our communities. we do this by mobilizing…
The mission of the new mexico rural electric cooperatives (nmrec) is to advance protect and advocate member interests.
Santa fe playhouse creates community on stage and off by holding space for unexpected conversations through intriguing and vital programming. we create community by: -connecting artists with audiences through theatre. this includes: new…
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…
The organization operates exclusively for the benefit and support of animal protection new mexico, which seeks to educate the public about and advocates campaigns that prevent cruelty to animals.
To improve the health of people living in the culturally diverse communities of northern new mexico through access to the highest quality health care, education, research and advocacy.
To preserve the legacy of the land and the cultural traditions of new mexico.
Bold futures nm leads policy change, research, place-based organizing, and culture shift by and for women and people of color in new mexico. bold futures nm centers the lived experiences and expertise of those most impacted by an issue,…
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Fe Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wichita Junior Golf Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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. 35 of the 44 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 MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILIA MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THINK NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds SAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BIENVENIDOS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds Esperanza Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Regional Science and Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds THE HEART AND SOUL ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Amigos Bravos Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC ↗
- Who funds RADIUS BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds WICHITA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Thornburg Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · Brindle Foundation · Lannan Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Gale Family Foundation · St Vincent Hospital · Feinberg 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 Bolene Charitable Trust 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.