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Chamiza Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $187k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| TAOS PUEBLO WARCHIEFS OFFICE | $15,000 |
| TAOS PUEBLO CMS | $15,000 |
| SANTA CLARA PUEBLO | $15,000 |
| PARTNERS IN EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| TREES WATER PEOPLE | $15,000 |
| CONSERVATION LEGACY ANCESTRAL LANDS | $15,000 |
| INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| KERES CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| PACHAMAMAS PATH | $15,000 |
| OHKAY OWINGEH SENIOR CENTER | $14,595 |
| OO-OO-NAH ART CULTRUAL CENTER | $12,540 |
| POEH MUSEUM CULTURAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| SANTA ANA PUEBLO | $8,500 |
| SANTA CLARA PUEBLO | $5,480 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Chamiza Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in NM; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +93% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KCKERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +353%
- PIPARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS4× · 2022–2025 · $51k · revenue +102%
- TWTREES WATER AND PEOPLE4× · 2021–2025 · $47k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- ARANCESTRAL RICH TREASURES OF ZUNIone grant, 2020 · $25k
NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%- GNGROUNDWORKS NEW MEXICO KRISTI DORRone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -29%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Shows the culture of the American southwest
Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico
Through a variety of media created by emerging and established artists, the center for contemporary arts of santa fe, inc. (center) presents the arts of our time as vital elements in the cultural dialogue in santa fe and throughout new…
Sovereign Energy builds the individual and collective power of Southwest Pueblos and Tribes to lead the way toward a just, interdependent, and sustainable energy future.
Nuestra tierra conservation project's core mission is to ensure that historically and deliberately excluded communities have access to the outdoors and that our people, history and values are authentically reflected in public land and…
MPPP promotes heritage stewardship and preservation of archaeological features and the environment and cultural landscape of the Mesa Prieta region of the northern Rio Grande Valley through documentation, education and outreach.
The PASEO Projects mission is to transform art through community and community through art. The PASEO Project lives at the center of three primary values: Art, Education, and Community. The PASEO Projects community is both local and…
To promote the understanding of international issues and cultural affairs.
Empowering indigenous communities to reconnect with, regenerate, and conserve their sacred peyote medicine.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The J Paul Getty Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
23 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. 23 of the 88 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds TREES WATER AND PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Bosque School ↗
- Who funds THE INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS NEW MEXICO KRISTI DORR ↗
- Who funds Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds PACHAMAMAS PATH INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: New Mexico Community Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board Inc · Indian Pueblo Cultural Center · WK Kellogg Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · The Notah Begay III Foundation Inc · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Pnm Tnmp Foundation
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 Chamiza Foundation 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.
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.
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