New Mexico · Community foundation
Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc
The Carlsbad Community Foundation exists to improve the quality of life for the people of Carlsbad and South Eddy County, New Mexico.
- $376k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $126k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $22,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $26M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $126k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $91k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $120k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $64k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $55k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $79k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $60k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $79k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noah's Ark Animal Refuge Inc | $158,943 | 9 | 4% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Carlsbadinc | $145,418 | 9 | 3% |
| Carc Inc | $57,975 | 7 | 0% |
| Lakeview Christian Home of the Southwest Inc | $57,839 | 4 | 0% |
| Desert Willow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center | $48,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Southeast NM College | $33,100 | 2 | n/a |
| Carlsbad Lifehouse Inc | $30,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Grace Episcopal Church | $28,900 | 3 | n/a |
| Landsun Foundation Inc | $28,141 | 1 | n/a |
| Carlsbad Battered Families Shelter | $26,093 | 2 | 5% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: God's Light in the Darkness Foundation · United Way of Eddy County · The Forrest Family Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc give?
- Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $125,750, out of $375,885 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (28%), Youth Development (20%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Noah's Ark Animal Refuge Inc ($159k), Boys and Girls Club of Carlsbadinc ($145k), Carc Inc ($58k).
- Does Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include God's Light in the Darkness Foundation, United Way of Eddy County, The Forrest Family Foundation.
- Where is Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc based?
- Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc is based in NM.
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