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GILA Community Foundation
The Gila Community Foundation builds a stronger, more resilient community by fostering sustainable philanthropic growth.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $228,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $399,462 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $171,462 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Virus Theater | $30,000 |
| Mimbres Region Arts Council | $30,000 |
| El Refugio Inc | $10,000 |
| Silver Regional Sexual Assa | $10,000 |
| Village of Santa Clara | $10,000 |
| El Calvario Community & Immig | $10,000 |
| St Andrews Hospitality Hous | $10,000 |
| Silver City Gospel Mission | $10,000 |
| The Commons Center for Food | $10,000 |
| Casa de Peregrinos Inc | $10,000 |
| Cancer Support of Deming and | $10,000 |
| Chiricahua Apache National Fo | $10,000 |
| STEM Roadshow WNMU Foundat | $10,000 |
| Deming Luna County Commission | $10,000 |
| Deming Silver Linings | $9,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 23%. 74% 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.
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 a community animal shelter
Provide a safe haven (shelter) for persons who have experienced physical, sexual, psychological violence or a combination thereof, color,or sexual orientation without prejudice regarding age, ethnicity,creed,gender or nationalty.
Assistance to the local street homeless community to obtain veterinary care and supplies for their companion animals.
Senior citizens meals and activities services.
We provide a faith-based recovery program for men, women, and children who need help overcoming life's challenges.
Provide emergency shelter, food and travel to eligible disabled veterans
Silver Horizon's mission is to see low-income seniors living safe and secure, in their own homes, with enough food to eat.
Provide substance abuse treatment, behavioral health services, and access to supportive services, in order to enable men and women to live productive, drug-free lives.
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…
To conduct a program of social services, advocacy and education, designed to alleviate the problem of domestic violence in north central new mexico with the stated goals of protecting people from abuse, neglect and exploitation, and to…
To provide permanent housing and stabilizing support services to people exiting homelessness and managing mental health challenges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesilla Valley Community of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Mimbres Region Arts Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 Mimbres Region Arts Council ↗
- Who funds EL REFUGIO ↗
- Who funds DEMING LUNA COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT OF DEMING & LUNA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER REGIONAL SEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SILVER CITY GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds MESILLA VALLEY COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Deming Silver Linings ↗
- Who funds GILA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEMING ANIMAL GUARDIANS ↗
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