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Cherry Picker Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $250k+1 grant · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EXPLORA | $260,000 |
| ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNM CANCER CENTER | $8,000 |
| ANIMAL HUMANE - NEW MEXICO | $5,000 |
| ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS - NEW MEXICO | $5,000 |
| NM ANIMAL FRIENDS | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - NM | $5,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| BIXBY & ASSOCIATES - BIXBY SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- ESEXPLORA SCIENCE CENTER & CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALBUQUERQUE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $310k · revenue +111%
- AMALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCORPORATED6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +48%
- NMNEW MEXICO ANIMAL FRIENDS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- GNGROUNDWORKS NMone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SLSNOW LION PRESCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +10%
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.
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
Creating curious, kind, courageous, and adventurous learners and leaders.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Silver spruce academy provides supplemental programs and resources utilized in curriculum education to students and families throughout the four corners area, in collaboration wtih other educational institutions.
Our mission is to inspire excellence in education and learning in northern new mexico through innovative programming, collaboration and advocacy.
Spring hill is a private school where the talents of bright and gifted children are recognized, nurtured, and developed to their full potential. the school's accelerated and enriched curriculum supports academic success and encourages a…
Our mission is to provide a progressive international education and advanced multilingual academics in a safe, diverse, and nurturing environment. our innovative and individualized approach to learning prepares highly motivated students…
Manzano day school is dedicated to innovative child-centered education, excellence in teaching, and joy in learning to prepare children for a life of discovery and community involvement in our diverse world.
The mission of desert montessori school (dms) is to provide a personalized, engaging education that inspires a life-long love of learning, fosters meaningful, independent thinking, social responsibility and self- confidence. utilizing the…
To Inspire a Passion for Life-Long Learning.
The mission of the alexander dawson foundation is to establish, operate and maintain an educational organization that will provide students with the highest quality education, nurture future leaders, prepare young adults to excel in…
Create powerful engagements and partnerships that lead to increased philanthropy, investment, innovation, and support for the university of new mexico.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Explora Science Center & Children's Museum of Albuquerque Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Mexico Animal Friends Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 EXPLORA SCIENCE CENTER & CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALBUQUERQUE INC ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO ANIMAL FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW MEXICO INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BIXBY & ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds SNOW LION PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TA THE SU ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY ↗
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: Albuquerque Community Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Cherry Picker 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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