· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $187k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KERES CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| PACHAMAMAS PATH | $15,000 |
| SANTA CLARA PUEBLO | $15,000 |
| PARTNERS IN EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| TAOS PUEBLO WARCHIEFS OFFICE | $15,000 |
| TREES WATER PEOPLE | $15,000 |
| CONSERVATION LEGACY ANCESTRAL LANDS | $15,000 |
| TAOS PUEBLO CMS | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Chamiza Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in NM; by stated purpose, 88%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- LFLANL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $15k
- GNGROUNDWORKS NEW MEXICO KRISTI DORRone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -29%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 88 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 GROUNDWORKS NEW MEXICO KRISTI DORR ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds PACHAMAMAS PATH INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chamiza Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chamiza Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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