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Enchanted Life 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Seton Hill University | $12,000 |
| Casa de Pergrinos Inc | $10,000 |
| El Paso Community Foundation | $10,000 |
| Benedictine Sisters of Erie | $3,200 |
| Community Foundation of Lincoln County | $2,500 |
| Border Servant Corps | $1,500 |
| St Matthias School | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Enchanted Life Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in NM; read by stated purpose it is 57% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +95% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
SETON HILL UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +35%- CDCASA DE PEREGRINOS6× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +185%
- NMNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc4× · 2017–2023 · $38k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- PSPLAY SHARITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -33%
- TCTHE COMMONS-CENTER FOR FOOD SECURITY & SUSTAINABILITYone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +11%
- CRCHILDREN'S READING ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +69%
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.
The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico serves as a community resource, connects donors to needs, and supports charitable organizations in their work.
La cosecha's mission is to ensure equitable access to healthy food, provide nutrition education, and foster growth and investment in community-driven markets. these efforts aim to support the development of a just, sustainable, and…
PdNCF supports the philanthropic goals of individuals, families, corporations, foundations and nonprofit organizations to improve education, health, social services, economic development, and quality of life in the Paso del Norte region.
Casa de salud provides health care services to low-income, indigent and underserved populations in new mexico. primary care, counseling, acupuncture, massage, reiki, addictions treatment, syringe exchange, medical debt management, case…
La Casa de Buena Salud, Inc. doing business as La Casa Family Health Center and doing business as La Casa Community Behavioral Health is an innovative, community-based financially resourceful, total health care organization committed to…
The casa program is a community-based program that recruits, trains and supports citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in courtrooms and communities. the organization serves children in…
To work to eliminate domestic violence in the latino immigrant community and to promote healthy families through comprehensive domestic violence intervention services in spanish, preventative community education policy advocacy and…
Lcdf empowers and enriches families, individuals and communities by providing quality medical, dental, behavioral health and educational services for people of all cultures.
Create opportunities for latino immigrants in north america, with a special focus on california.
Provide respectful high quality legal advice, counsel, brief services and referral to low-income New Mexicans and help remove barriers to the civil justice system.
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Semilla Food Center and the most unlike its peers is Seton Hill University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 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. 21 of the 32 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 SETON HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CASA DE PEREGRINOS ↗
- Who funds New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc ↗
- Who funds EL CALDITO SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds LA CASA INC ↗
- Who funds LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds LITERACY LINK - LEAMOS ↗
- Who funds The Wellness Coalition ↗
- Who funds ASOMBRO INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PLAY SHARITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JARDIN DE LOS NINOS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMONS-CENTER FOR FOOD SECURITY & SUSTAINABILITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S READING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EL REFUGIO ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels New Mexico ↗
- Who funds BORDER SERVANT CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF SMALL FOUNDATIONS ↗
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: Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico · The Stocker Foundation · United Way of Southwest Nm Inc · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Save The Children Federation Inc · Greater Horizons · The Fliesbach Family Foundation · El Paso Community Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · New Mexico Community Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable 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 Enchanted Life 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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