How much does Bolene Charitable Trust give?

Bolene Charitable Trust reported 25 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Bolene Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (43%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Housing & Shelter (12%).

Who are Bolene Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Museum of New Mexico Foundation ($98k), The Food Depot ($23k), Kitchen Angels Inc ($16k).

Does Bolene Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bolene Charitable Trust 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 Bolene Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, Thornburg Foundation, Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation.

Where is Bolene Charitable Trust based?

Bolene Charitable Trust is based in KS.

Bolene Charitable Trust

Bolene Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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.

$25k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$127kFood & Nutrition$46kHousing & Shelter$37kHealth$23kHuman Services$15kEnvironment$14kPhilanthropy$10kYouth Development$9kOther$0

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $15k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$586k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION	$10,000
ST ELIZABETH SHELTERS	$2,000
THE FOOD DEPOT	$1,500
THINK NEW MEXICO	$1,000
SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,000
KITCHEN ANGELS	$1,000
BAG AND HAND PANTRY	$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$500
BIENVENIDOS OUTREACH INC	$500
THE LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER	$500
YOUTH SHELTERS AND FAMILY SERVICES	$500
GROWING UP NEW MEXICO	$500
KNME TVUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO	$500
CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$282k · 35 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$282k

$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%

+12%

Still filing today

77%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEducationOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

MO
MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +79%
THE FOOD DEPOT
9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +84%
KA
KITCHEN ANGELS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +15%

Funded once

SJ
ST JOHNS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $1k
WJ
WICHITA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +12%
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue -28%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture

Northern New Mexicans Protecting Land Water and Rights Inc

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…

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Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico

The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico serves as a community resource, connects donors to needs, and supports charitable organizations in their work.

Philanthropy

Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund

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…

Civil Rights

New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association Inc

The mission of the new mexico rural electric cooperatives (nmrec) is to advance protect and advocate member interests.

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Santa Fe Playhouse

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…

Arts & Culture

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

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…

Environment

Animal Protection New Mexico Inc (Apnm)Foundation

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.

Animals

Southwest Care Center

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.

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El Rancho De Las Golondrinas Inc

To preserve the legacy of the land and the cultural traditions of new mexico.

Arts & Culture

Bold Futures Nm

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,…

Human Services

Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Fe Community Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/35

Grantees still filing

31/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$114,983Other$83,500Human Services$33,250Housing & Shelter$20,000Philanthropy$16,988Health$16,000Youth Development$9,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 FoundationNM53.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bolene Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bolene Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home