· Public charity
Excellent Schools New Mexico
Excellent Schools New Mexico is nonprofit organization that identifies New Mexicos most promising public schools and school leaders, makes data-driven investments to fund their growth, and provides ongoing support to expand their impact.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $841k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABQ School of Excellence Fnd | $540,000 |
| Equip New Mexico | $300,812 |
| Solare Collegiate Charter Sch | $50,000 |
| Albuquerque Collegiate Inc | $50,000 |
| East Mountain High School Fnd | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% 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.
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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $841k 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
- EMEAST MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $425k · revenue +172% · 52% of their budget
- CCCOTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $412k · revenue +19%
- AEAequitas Education3× · 2019–2024 · $408k · revenue +91% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- HIHOMEWISE INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +78%
- AFACHIEVEMENT FIRST INCone grant, 2020 · $145k · revenue +19%
- SFSGMS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -95% · 56% of their budget
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.
Academy charter school (the "school") was formed in 1993 pursuant to the colorado charter schools act to form and operate a charter school.
To provide high quality academics to k-5 students
The Santa Fe Texas Education Foundation CULTIVATES and NURTURES the culture of generosity in our community, IGNITES exemplary experiences for every student and teacher, and INSPIRES the achievement of lifelong success.
Commitment to development of the whole child by providing students a well-rounded, individualized education and development experience that is grounded on Montessori principles
Provide support to san diego cooperative charter schools (sdccs).
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
To be a collaborative academic community focused on scholar learning and achievement, and to set high expectations and provide each scholar with the essential tools to succeed.
To support the mission and activities of explore academy charter school, a new mexico governmental authorized charter school.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Solare Collegiate Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Voz Collegiate Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 19 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 MISSION ACHIEVEMENT AND SUCCESS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Aequitas Education ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE COLLEGIATE INC ↗
- Who funds Altura Schools ↗
- Who funds TURQUOISE TRAIL CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOLARE COLLEGIATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Voz Collegiate Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOMEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE Community School Foundation ↗
- Who funds SGMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Montessori Foundation ↗
- Who funds VISTA COLLEGE PREPARATORY INC ↗
- Who funds BES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM 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: Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Louis Calder Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · New Schools Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Excellent Schools New Mexico 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.
- Achievement First Inc — 2% 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.