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Garfield Street Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k32 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NM | $11,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SANTA FE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $6,500 |
| NM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL TAY-SACHS & ALLIED DISEASES ASSOCIATION INC | $5,000 |
| LEONARD HELMAN BRIDGE CLUB | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| VITAL SPACES | $3,000 |
| VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS | $2,527 |
| SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| SANTA FE OPERA | $2,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,343 |
| PLAYSCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $2,303 |
| SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2021, 10 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA3× · 2017–2021 · $41k · revenue +53%
- NDNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC2× · 2017–2018 · $22k · revenue +43%
- SVST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $17k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- RLROSEMONT LEADERSHIP INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $234k
- SSSFPS STUDENT NUTRITION SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $4k
- YYOUTHWORKSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +78%
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.
Provide educational and residential opportunities for native american children in grades 7-12.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Mission is to promote, present and preserve hispanic arts & culture of nm. showcasing, encourging & supporting participation of hispanics in local arts economy; and presenting creative & cultural richness of our heritage, including arts &…
Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico
The mission of nif is to preserve and promote flamenco's artistry, history, and culture by presenting the finest flamenco in the world and by educating the american family in this art form while emphasizing the positive influence of art on…
Santa fe pro musica brings together outstanding musicians to inspire and educate audiences of all ages through the performance of great music.
Santa fe international literary festival (sfilf, or the festival) was incorporated as a nonprofit corporation in new mexico in 2023. the mission of sfilf is to connect writers, readers, and thinkers from around the world and close to home…
To promote the understanding of international issues and cultural affairs.
Through a variety of media created by emerging and established artists, the center for contemporary arts of santa fe, inc. (center) presents the arts of our time as vital elements in the cultural dialogue in santa fe and throughout new…
Bold futures nm leads policy change, research, place-based organizing, and culture shift by and for women and people of color in new mexico. bold futures nm centers the lived experiences and expertise of those most impacted by an issue,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Fe Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Ass. 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 51 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 THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MOUNTAIN REGION ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO APPLESEED ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CONTIGO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SANTA FE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CHAMBER OPPORTUNITIES FUND ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TAY-SACHS & ALLIED DISEASES ASS ↗
- Who funds YOUTHWORKS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST SERVE-NM INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds DESERT PAWS ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Santa Fe ↗
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 · Thornburg Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · Bolene Charitable Trust · Anchorum St Vincent · Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation Inc · Gale Family Foundation · Lineberry Foundation · Feinberg 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 Garfield Street 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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