· Private foundation
Cherry Picker 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIXBY & ASSOCIATES - BIXBY SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EXPLORA | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS - NEW MEXICO | $5,000 |
| ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NM CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - NM | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL HUMANE - NEW MEXICO | $5,000 |
| NM ANIMAL FRIENDS | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ESEXPLORA SCIENCE CENTER & CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALBUQUERQUE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $320k · revenue +111%
- AMALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCORPORATED7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +48%
- NMNEW MEXICO ANIMAL FRIENDS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $58k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- GNGROUNDWORKS NMone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SLSNOW LION PRESCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +10%
- UCUNM CANCER CENTERone grant, 2024 · $8k
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.
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.
Our mission is to inspire excellence in education and learning in northern new mexico through innovative programming, collaboration and advocacy.
Creating curious, kind, courageous, and adventurous learners and leaders.
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 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."
To Inspire a Passion for Life-Long Learning.
Create powerful engagements and partnerships that lead to increased philanthropy, investment, innovation, and support for the university of new mexico.
Provide additional educational opportunities to public school and other students.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To support animals, save lives, and spread compassion.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 EXPLORA SCIENCE CENTER & CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALBUQUERQUE INC ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO ANIMAL FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds BIXBY & ASSOCIATES ↗
- 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 ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SNOW LION PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TA THE SU ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cherry Picker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cherry Picker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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