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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 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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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%NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTHERN: $20k → 23%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTHERN: $20k → 23%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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
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
6
Comunidad De Colores

Our mission is to promote health equity in Northern New Mexico by improving quality and access to health services regardless of one's insurance status or ability to pay.

Health
7
New Mexico Child Advocacy Networks

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

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8
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
9
Leadership New Mexico

Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.

Arts & Culture
10
New Mexico Foundation for Open Government

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

Crime & Legal
11
New Mexico Perinatal Collaborative

The mission of the new mexico perinatal collaborative is to convene stakeholders to achieve health equity through the promotion of evidence- based reproductive and perinatal health practices that: increase collaboration with communities…

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12
Social and Emotional Learning Alliance for Nm

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is integral to human development and education. Through reliable developmental relationships, young people learn who they are and imagine who they might become as healthy, contributing adults in their…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Community Action; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 39 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
26/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMILLA ACTION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetALBUQUERQUE INTERFAITH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 14% 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
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 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

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 Center for Civic Policy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Civic Policy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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