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El Deseo Foundation El Deseo 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.

$26k
Granted FY2021
8
Grants FY2021
8
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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56% of El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Nature Conservancy, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $26k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
8
’18
6
’19
7
’20
6
’21
5
’22
5
’23
2
’24
4
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2021
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 18
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
4
Total assets, FY2021
$831k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
EnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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
FY20218$26k0%
FY202010$31k10%
FY201913$40k23%
FY201818$51k50%
FY201713$62kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$170kFood & Nutrition$68kArts & Culture$45kAnimals$41kEducation$31kRecreation & Sports$26kInternational$25kHuman Services$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
IN
CO
AZ
NM
DC
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($103k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Food Depot: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society Inc: $39,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKitchen Angels Inc: $23,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Earth School Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSanta Fe Botanical Garden: $7,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of New Mexico Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWheelchair Sports Federation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation

How much does El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation give?
El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $26,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (37%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Food Depot ($45k), Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society Inc ($40k), Kitchen Angels Inc ($23k).
Does El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation based?
El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation 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 29 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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