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Center for Civic Policy

The purpose of the organization is to research, develop and analyze current and future public policies that impact the health and welfare of new mexicans, such as health care, energy, natural resources, the economy, jobs, voting rights issues and to increase civic participation.

$881k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$333k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MHuman Services$1.1MPublic Benefit$818kCivil Rights$748kCommunity Improvement$423kReligion$420kHealth$170kEnvironment$98kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $173k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $368k
  • $250k+1 grant · $333k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SEMILLA PROJECT$333,000
ACLU OF NEW MEXICO$100,000
PROGRESS NOW NEW MEXICO EDUCATION F$89,700
NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE$75,000
NEW MEXICO DREAM TEAM$53,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY$50,000
NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER$44,500
COMMON CAUSE NM EDUCATION FUND$43,000
NM WILD$25,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$23,832
VALENCIA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK$21,900
NEW MEXICO IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $91k → 14%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE: $272k → 23%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE: $110k → 23%NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $45k → 14%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE: $75k → 23%NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $45k → 14%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE: $61k → 23%NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $31k → 14%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE: $45k → 23%NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $30k → 14%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE: $33k → 23%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE: $20k → 23%NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $20k → 14%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE: $17k → 23%NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $18k → 14%NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $17k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTHERN: $20k → 23%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTHERN: $20k → 23%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTHERN: $20k → 23%NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 14%EL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS: $70k → 14%EL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS: $30k → 14%EL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS: $27k → 14%BOLD FUTURES: $25k → 14%EL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS: $20k → 14%EQUALITY NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%EL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS: $10k → 14%EQUALITY NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%EL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.5M · 21 repeat orgs$785k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
16

Total granted

$4.5M
$670k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
Human ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitEnvironmentEducationOther

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

  • TO
    THE OLE EDUCATION FUND
    7× · 2017–2023 · $915k · revenue +178%
  • NC
    NM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe
    8× · 2017–2025 · $632k · revenue +223% · 56% of their budget
  • NM
    NEW MEXICO DREAM CENTER OF ALBUQUERQUE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +365% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
    one grant, 2019 · $90k · revenue -100%
  • NS
    NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK
    one grant, 2021 · $82k · revenue -18%
  • STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue +154%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Community Power New Mexico
Community Improvement
2
Nmvc Action Fund

NMVC Action Fund engages in lobbying activities in support of New Mexicos children and families and it participates in electoral activities.

Youth Development
3
American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico

Aclu-nm is the state affiliate of the aclu, the nation's premier civil rights and civil liberties organization. the purpose of aclu-nm is to protect and advance justice, liberty and equity as guaranteed by the constitutions of new mexico…

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4
Nm Voters First

NM Voters First (NMVF) was incorporated in 2024 with the mission to support candidates tha believe in empowering and enhancing democracy and encouraging legislators to support fair and equitable elections that expand peoples political…

Public Benefit
5
New Mexico Child Advocacy Networks

Nmcan partners with young people to build community, promote equity and lead change.

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6
Equal Access to Justice Inc

To increase access to justice by supporting and expanding free civil legal services for low-income new mexicans. for 35 years, equal access to justice has been providing unrestricted, noncompetitive funds to legal aid organizations who…

Philanthropy
7
New Mexico Foundation for Open Government

To ensure that government is accountable to the voters and taxpayers.

Crime & Legal
8
Dual Language Education of New Mexico

To champion equitable educational opportunities that honor and leverage the diverse linguistic and cultural assets of every learner. defender oportunidades educativas equitativas que honren y aprovechen los diversos recursos lingsticos y…

Education
9
Groundworks New Mexico Kristi Dorr

Groundworks new mexicos mission is to connect, strengthen, and advocate for new mexicos social sector while unleashing its full potential. our core values are racial equity, collaboration, community, and impact. groundworks new mexico…

Education
10
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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11
Center for Civic Action

To advocate for policies that impact the common good and welfare of new mexicans, such as health care, energy, natural resources, the economy and jobs, and voting rights issues. to educate the public about social welfare issues that impact…

Civil Rights
12
Conservation Voters New Mexico

To hold elected officials accountable for their environmental votes and to educate voters on conservation issues.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Somos Un Pueblo Unido and the most unlike its peers is Angelica 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 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr20%39%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr9%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%8%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%59%10–20yr20%23%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr9%3%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/39
the rest of the field
12%
3,747/30,906

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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 39 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE OLE EDUCATION FUND — $914,756 · Civil RightsTHE OLE EDUCATION FUNDPROGRESSNOW NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND — $369,700 · Civil RightsPROGRESSNOW NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUN…SOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO — $288,000 · Civil RightsSOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDOWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $130,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC+2 more — $26,629 · Civil RightsNM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe — $632,100 · Human ServicesNM Comunidades En Accion Y De F…NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER — $307,117 · Human ServicesNEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTERNAEVA — $230,940 · Human ServicesNAEVAEL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS — $167,208 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHO…COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO INC — $60,000 · Human Services+4 more — $81,260 · Human Services+4 moreTHE SEMILLA PROJECT — $350,000 · EducationTHE SEMIL…NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK — $81,953 · EducationNACA-INSP…NEW MEXICO DREAM CENTER OF ALBUQUERQUE — $400,400 · ReligionNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $150,100 · Community ImprovementPARTNERSHIP FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION — $90,000 · Community ImprovementNGAGE NEW MEXICO — $75,000 · Community ImprovementPARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY ACTION — $34,000 · Community ImprovementVALENCIA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK — $28,900 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL…ANGELICA FOUNDATION — $85,000 · OtherANGELICA FOUND…AFT NEW MEXICO — $75,000 · OtherAFT NEW MEXICONEW MEXICO PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC — $52,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO PUB…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $170,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN…NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE — $50,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO WIL…CENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE INC — $45,000 · OtherCENTER OF SOUT…Save The Children Federation Inc — $33,957 · Other+5 more — $78,075 · Other+5 moreCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $85,000 · Public BenefitSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $80,000 · Public BenefitNEW MEXICO BLACK LEADERSHIP COUNCIL — $35,000 · Public Benefit
Civil Rights$1,729,085Human Services$1,478,625Education$431,953Religion$400,400Community Improvement$378,000Other$689,032Public Benefit$200,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE OLE EDUCATION FUND — $914,756 over 7y, 20% of budgetNM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe — $632,100 over 8y, 56% of budgetNEW MEXICO DREAM CENTER OF ALBUQUERQUE — $400,400 over 5y, 33% of budgetPROGRESSNOW NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND — $369,700 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE SEMILLA PROJECT — $350,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER — $307,117 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetSOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO — $288,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetNAEVA — $230,940 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $170,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS — $167,208 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $150,100 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $130,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION — $90,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetANGELICA FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 3y, 60% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $85,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK — $81,953 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $80,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNGAGE NEW MEXICO — $75,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAFT NEW MEXICO — $75,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE INC — $45,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetNEW MEXICO BLACK LEADERSHIP COUNCIL — $35,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY ACTION — $34,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $33,957 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVALENCIA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK — $28,900 over 2y, 12% of budgetEquality New Mexico Foundation — $21,260 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetALBUQUERQUE INTERFAITH INC — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMILLA ACTION — $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPIRG NEW VOTERS PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND — $14,600 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS-DESERT PEAKS — $13,075 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNEW MEXICO VOICES FOR CHILDREN — $12,029 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

Santa Fe Community Fo…Marshall L and Perrin…Albuquerque Community…Con Alma Health Found…WK Kellogg FoundationWestern Conservation …New Mexico Community …NEO Philanthropy IncNew Mexico Fund for W…Amalgamated Charitabl…Community Foundation …New Venture Fund
Santa Fe Community FoundationNM45.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Western Conservation Foundation · New Mexico Community Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Mexico Fund for Women and Girls · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico · New Venture 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 Center for Civic Policy 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Center for Civic Policy?

Find your warmest path to Center for Civic Policy 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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