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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 FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Animals$207kYouth Development$145kHuman Services$128kHealth$98kReligion$39kHousing & Shelter$34kEducation$33kCrime & Legal$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $125,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $375,885 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $250,135 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lakeview Christian Home$22,200
Crimestoppers of Eddy County$20,000
The Boys & Girls Club of Csbd$18,100
Desert Willow$15,000
Noahs Ark$15,000
Grace Episcopal Church$14,950
Faith Hope and Love Foundat$10,000
Carlsbad Lifehouse$5,400
SE NM College Nursing Program$5,100
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 11%Faith Hope and Love Foundat: $10k → 13%SENM Community Action Corpora: $7k → 13%Faith Hope and Love Fnd: $6k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$638k · 12 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$638k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+31%

Still filing today

67%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsScience & TechOther
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

  • NA
    NOAH'S ARK ANIMAL REFUGE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $159k · revenue +322%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CARLSBADINC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +150%
  • CI
    CARC INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $58k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • LF
    LANDSUN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    CARLSBAD COMMUNITY ANTI-DRUG & GANG COALITION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE LIVING DESERT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +31%
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.

1
New Mexico Housing & Community Development Corporation

The new mexico housing and community development corporation is successfully promoting the availability and quality of affordable housing for moderate and low income families throughout new mexico through the means of property…

Housing & Shelter
2
Christian Home of Pecos

Christain Home

Crime & Legal
3
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.

Philanthropy
4
Carlsbad Horticulture Society

The carlsbad horticulture society organization mission is to support the living desert state park in carlsbad, nm by providing direct financial support and indirect supporting services and volunteer time. all net proceeds from the gift…

Environment
5
Central California Labrador Retriever Rescue

Dog rescue and adoption

Animals
6
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa

Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.

Human Services
7
Justice Access Support and Solutions for Health

Casa de salud provides health care services to low-income, indigent and underserved populations in new mexico. primary care, counseling, acupuncture, massage, reiki, addictions treatment, syringe exchange, medical debt management, case…

Health
8
Argos a Shelter Dog Rescue

The purpose of argos, a shelter dog rescue is: to rescue animals from situations that are abusive, endangering, or neglectful. to rescue animals in danger of being euthanized in new mexico shelters/pounds. to provide necessary veterinary…

Animals
9
Albuquerque Christian Children's Home Inc

The home provides care for children and wards of the court placed for foster home purposes.

Human Services
10
Carlsbad Mainstreet Project

To Strengthen the Mainstreet District as the Center of our Community through Concentrated Efforts in Organization, Promotion, Design, and Economic Restructuring.

Environment
11
Carson Springs Wildlife Foundation
Animals
12
Desert Dog Rescue Inc

Animal rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Living Desert Inc; the most unlike its peers is Faith Hope & Love 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

17 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. 17 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Southeast NM College: $33,100 · OtherSoutheast NM CollegeGRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $28,900 · OtherGRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCHLANDSUN FOUNDATION INC: $28,141 · OtherLANDSUN FOUNDATION INCCARLSBAD BATTERED FAMILIES SHELTER: $26,093 · OtherCARLSBAD BATTERED FAMILIES SH…LANDSUN HOMES INC: $25,015 · OtherLANDSUN HOMES INCCRIMESTOPPERS OF EDDY COUNTY: $20,000 · OtherCRIMESTOPPERS OF EDDY COUNTYCARLSBAD COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOCIATION: $11,600 · OtherCARLSBAD COMMUNITY CONCERT AS…FRIENDS OF THE LIVING DESERT INC: $9,500 · Other+2 more: $12,445 · Other+2 moreNOAH'S ARK ANIMAL REFUGE INC: $158,943 · AnimalsNOAH'S ARK ANIMAL REFUGE…LAKEVIEW CHRISTIAN HOME OF THE SOUTHWEST INC: $57,839 · HealthLAKEVIEW CHRISTIAN HOM…Desert Willow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center: $48,000 · HealthDesert Willow Wildlife…CARLSBAD LIFEHOUSE INC: $30,100 · HealthCARLSBAD LIFEHOUSE INCCARLSBAD COMMUNITY ANTI-DRUG & GANG COALITION INC: $10,000 · HealthCARLSBAD COMMUNITY ANT…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CARLSBADINC: $145,418 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF…CARC INC: $57,975 · Human ServicesCARC INCFAITH HOPE & LOVE FOUNDATION: $15,500 · Human ServicesFAITH HOPE &…SOUTHEAST NM COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $6,996 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST NM…CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT: $7,500 · Science & TechCarlsbad Transitional Housing & Homeless: $5,500 · Housing & ShelterEDDY COUNTY CASA AUXILIARY: $5,500 · Civil Rights
Other$194,794Animals$158,943Health$145,939Youth Development$145,418Human Services$80,471Science & Tech$7,500Housing & Shelter$5,500Civil Rights$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNOAH'S ARK ANIMAL REFUGE INC: $158,943 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CARLSBADINC: $145,418 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetCARC INC: $57,975 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLAKEVIEW CHRISTIAN HOME OF THE SOUTHWEST INC: $57,839 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDesert Willow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center: $48,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetCARLSBAD LIFEHOUSE INC: $30,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCARLSBAD BATTERED FAMILIES SHELTER: $26,093 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetLANDSUN HOMES INC: $25,015 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH HOPE & LOVE FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCARLSBAD COMMUNITY ANTI-DRUG & GANG COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LIVING DESERT INC: $9,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetCENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST NM COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $6,996 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD INC: $6,400 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCarlsbad Transitional Housing & Homeless: $5,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
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.

God's Light in the Da…United Way of Eddy Co…The Forrest Family Fo…Amazonsmile Foundation
God's Light in the Darkness FoundationNM24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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