· Private foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER | $5,000 |
| THE FOOD DEPOT | $5,000 |
| BRECKENRIDGE ARTS DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN | $2,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,500 |
| SOUTH BEND TABLE TENNIS | $2,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| KITCHEN ANGELS | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +59% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE FOOD DEPOT9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +84%- SFSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +36%
- KAKITCHEN ANGELS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- CUCHRISTMAS UNLIMITED INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +20%
- MOMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +79%
- UPUSATT PARA PROGRAMone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
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."
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
To feed every hungry person today, to seed partnerships that build self- sufficiency for tomorrow, and lead to achieve our vision of permanently ending hunger in new mexico.
Cooking with kids educates and empowers children and families to make healthy food choices through hands-on nutrition education with fresh, affordable foods.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.
New mexico consortium (nmc) integrates the needs of new mexico's research universities to build liason research between local universities and organizations. nmc builds strategic connections with scientific institutions throughout the…
To provide education and promote the use of recycling, sustainable practices alternative energy and community resources for the betterment of the environment and public at large.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 29 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds Little Earth School Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELCHAIR SPORTS FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from El Deseo Foundation El Deseo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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