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Enchanted Life Foundation at a glance

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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.

$41k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$177kFood & Nutrition$112kHuman Services$47kArts & Culture$28kPhilanthropy$17kHealth$13kReligion$10kYouth Development$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
$3,200
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Commons Center for Food Security and Sustainability: $6k → 20%El Refugio Inc: $3k → 20%Jardin De Los Ninos Inc: $3k → 23%Casa de Pergrinos Inc: $20k → 23%Casa de Peregrinos Inc: $14k → 23%Casa de Pergrinos Inc: $10k → 23%Casa de Peregrinos Inc: $10k → 23%Casa de Peregrinos: $10k → 23%Jardin de Los Ninos Incorporated: $5k → 23%Casa de Peregrinos Inc: $4k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Enchanted Life Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in NM; by stated purpose, 57%.

Enchanted Life Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$356k · 16 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +95% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

$356k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+95%
+11%

Still filing today

69%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SETON HILL UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +35%
  • CD
    CASA DE PEREGRINOS
    6× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +185%
  • NM
    New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc
    4× · 2017–2023 · $38k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • PS
    PLAY SHARITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -33%
  • TC
    THE COMMONS-CENTER FOR FOOD SECURITY & SUSTAINABILITY
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +11%
  • MW
    MARIAN WOODS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico

The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico serves as a community resource, connects donors to needs, and supports charitable organizations in their work.

Philanthropy
2
La Cosecha Community Supported Agriculture

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…

Human Services
3
Paso del Norte Community Foundation

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.

Health
4
Community Power New Mexico
Community Improvement
5
Justice Access Support and Solutions for Health

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…

Health
6
La Casa De Buena Salud Inc

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…

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7
Casa Partners 4NMKIDS Inc

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…

Civil Rights
8
Enlace Comunitario

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…

Community Improvement
9
La Clinica De Familia Inc

Lcdf empowers and enriches families, individuals and communities by providing quality medical, dental, behavioral health and educational services for people of all cultures.

Health
10
Consejo De Federaciones Mexicanas En Norte America

Create opportunities for latino immigrants in north america, with a special focus on california.

Human Services
11
Law Access New Mexico

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.

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12
Santa Fe Community Foundation

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,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Semilla Food Center; 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.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $108,000 · EducationSETON HILL UNIVERSITYNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc: $38,000 · EducationNew Mexico State Univ Fdn IncLITERACY LINK - LEAMOS: $13,100 · EducationLITERACY LINK - LEAMOS+1 more: $5,000 · EducationEL CALDITO SOUP KITCHEN: $19,153 · OtherEL CALDITO SOUP KITCHENLA CASA INC: $18,560 · OtherLA CASA INCBenedictine Sisters of Erie: $13,451 · OtherBenedictine Sisters of ErieThe Wellness Coalition: $13,000 · OtherThe Wellness CoalitionST MATTHIAS SCHOOL: $8,170 · OtherST MATTHIAS SCHOOLSisters of Charity of Seton Hill: $7,000 · OtherSisters of Charity of Seton…Community Foundation of Southern NM: $5,500 · OtherCommunity Foundation of Sou…MARIAN WOODS INC: $5,000 · OtherCatholic Charities of Southern New: $5,000 · Other+6 more: $7,000 · Other+6 moreCASA DE PEREGRINOS: $67,908 · Human ServicesCASA DE PEREGRINOSJARDIN DE LOS NINOS INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesJARDIN DE LOS NINOS INCTHE COMMONS-CENTER FOR FOOD SECURITY & SUSTAINABILITY: $5,750 · Human ServicesTHE COMMONS-CENTER FOR …+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesASOMBRO INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION: $12,956 · Arts & CulturePLAY SHARITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureEL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST: $1,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER: $16,935 · Food & NutritionMeals on Wheels New Mexico: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Education$164,100Other$101,834Human Services$84,158Arts & Culture$22,956Philanthropy$22,000Food & Nutrition$19,435

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $108,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DE PEREGRINOS: $67,908 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc: $38,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEL CALDITO SOUP KITCHEN: $19,153 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetLA CASA INC: $18,560 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER: $16,935 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLITERACY LINK - LEAMOS: $13,100 over 4y, 10% of budgetThe Wellness Coalition: $13,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetASOMBRO INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION: $12,956 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPLAY SHARITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJARDIN DE LOS NINOS INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMMONS-CENTER FOR FOOD SECURITY & SUSTAINABILITY: $5,750 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S READING ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMeals on Wheels New Mexico: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL REFUGIO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF SMALL FOUNDATIONS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Stocker FoundationUnited Way of Southwe…Con Alma Health Found…Marshall L and Perrin…Save The Children Fed…Greater HorizonsThe Fliesbach Family …El Paso Community Fou…Nusenda FoundationNew Mexico Community …Carl C Anderson Sr an…
Community Foundation of Southern New MexicoNM26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Enchanted Life Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Enchanted Life Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Enchanted Life Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Enchanted Life Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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