· Private foundation
Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $500
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FENIMORE ART MUSEUM | $15,907,000 |
| SANTA FE PRO MUSICA | $50,000 |
| TARGHEE MUSIC FOUNDATION | $30,240 |
| ELBOW ROOM | $30,000 |
| SIGNS FOR HOPE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BOSQUE DEL APACHE WILDLIFE REFUGE | $10,000 |
| GALISTEO BASIN OPEN SPACE PRESERVE | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 36% of Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust’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, 20% of the giving stays in NM; read by stated purpose it is 17% — 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 +58% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- FAFENIMORE ART MUSEUM7× · 2017–2024 · $39M · revenue +193% · 83% of their budget
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2018–2022 · $10M · revenue +58%
- SFSANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST3× · 2019–2021 · $2.9M · revenue +104% · 65% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCOMMONWEAL CONSERVANCY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue +34%
- LPLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue +416% · 54% of their budget
- SASTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1.2M · revenue +84%
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.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The santa fe botanical garden celebrates, cultivates and conserves the rich botanical heritage and biodiversity of our region. in partnership with nature, we demonstrate our commitment through education, science, conservation, community…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
Impart knowledge and appreciation of humanity's relationship with wildlife through art.
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The San Antonio Museum of Art brings people together with art by collecting, preserving, and presenting significant works of art representing a broad range of history and cultures, advancing human connection and understanding, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of New Mexico Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Galisteo Basin Open Space Preserve. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 70 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 FENIMORE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEAL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RADIUS BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GANONDAGAN INC ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE PRO MUSICA INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTT'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NUEVO MEXICO PROFUNDO ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds Elbow Room ↗
- Who funds GALISTEO BASIN OPEN SPACE PRESERVE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds EMBUDO VALLEY LIBRARY AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds MUNSON-WILLIAMS-PROCTOR ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TARGHEE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Esperanza Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Lannan Foundation · Bolene Charitable Trust · Thornburg Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Frost Foundation · C & I Roybal Charitable Foundation · Slf Foundation · The Ark Foundation · Hanuman Foundation · Lineberry Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute
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 Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust 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.
- Five Points Center for the Visual Arts Inc — 75% of income from government
- National Park Trust Inc — 51% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
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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