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Christopher Foundation for the Arts

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$600
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100
Largest grant, FY2024
$100
Organizations funded a year
4 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$591k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Christopher Foundation for the Arts funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$60017%
FY20236$60033%
FY20226$60017%
FY20214$4000%
FY20207$70071%
FY20194$3k25%
FY201810$13k50%
FY201711$10kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$21kYouth Development$6kEducation$485Health$350

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($11k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Christopher Foundation for the Arts supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGirls Incorporated of Santa Fe Inc: $6,072 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe Inc: $1,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Fe Playhouse: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnnapolis Film Festival: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSanta Fe Boys & Girls Club Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Students League Of New York Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNeuro-Acupuncture Institute Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgia O'Keeffe Museum: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of New Mexico Foundation: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIndigenous Language Institute: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasey Cares Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 FoundationNM15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Christopher Foundation for the Arts

How much does Christopher Foundation for the Arts give?
Christopher Foundation for the Arts reported 6 grants totaling $600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Christopher Foundation for the Arts fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (74%), Youth Development (23%), Education (2%).
Who are Christopher Foundation for the Arts's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Girls Incorporated of Santa Fe Inc ($6k), The Santa Fe Film Festival Inc ($4k), Chelsea Film Festival Inc ($3k).
Does Christopher Foundation for the Arts fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Christopher Foundation for the Arts accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Christopher Foundation for the Arts?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, Pnm Tnmp Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Christopher Foundation for the Arts based?
Christopher Foundation for the Arts is based in NM.

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 26 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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