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Idm Foundation

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.

$210k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$343kHealth$144kPhilanthropy$100kAnimals$66kScience & Tech$53kPublic Benefit$46kCivil Rights$35kInternational$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $105k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$20,000
NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,000
SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$10,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY$10,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$10,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$10,000
TAOS SOLAR RESOURCES$10,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$10,000
POPULATION COUNCIL$5,000
WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$5,000
SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC$5,000
ESPANOLA HUMANE$5,000
NEW MEXICO LAND CONSERVANCY$5,000
CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WA$5,000
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 (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THINK NEW MEXICO: $2k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$624k · 25 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
11

Total granted

$624k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+67%

Still filing today

100%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsHealthCivil RightsInternationalScience & TechOther
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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +43%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +110%
  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $31k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +50%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • EA
    ENVIORNMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment
3
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
4
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
5
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
6
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
7
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
8
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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9
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
Earthjustice

Earthjustice is a premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization. we wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people's health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy,…

Environment
12
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Dixon Animal Protection Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 44 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $32,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETYWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $31,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $30,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCYENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $30,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUN…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $16,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUNDEarth Island Institute Inc: $10,000 · Environment+3 more: $12,000 · Environment+3 moreTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $32,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $31,000 · OtherWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CE…LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $30,000 · OtherLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCA…NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONTAOS SOLAR RESOURCES INC: $10,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $25,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PU…EMBUDO VALLEY TUTORING ASSOCIATION: $14,500 · OtherEMBUDO VALLEY TUTORING ASSOC…NEW MEXICO LAND CONSERVANCY: $11,000 · OtherCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · Other+7 more: $21,000 · Other+7 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $120,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $10,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLA…+1 more: $4,000 · HealthNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 · PhilanthropyNEW MEXICO CO…SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropySANTA FE COMM…CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $30,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR B…DIXON ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY: $26,000 · AnimalsDIXON ANIMAL…Humane Society of Taos Inc dba Stray Hearts Animal Shelter: $12,000 · AnimalsHumane Socie…ESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $12,000 · AnimalsESPANOLA VAL…Defenders of Wildlife: $10,000 · AnimalsDefenders of…ANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC: $5,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $28,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · InternationalTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Civil RightsCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $10,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $1,000 · Civil Rights
Environment$191,000Other$214,500Health$134,000Philanthropy$100,000Animals$96,000International$58,000Civil Rights$46,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $32,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $32,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $31,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDIXON ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY: $26,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMBUDO VALLEY TUTORING ASSOCIATION: $14,500 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetHumane Society of Taos Inc dba Stray Hearts Animal Shelter: $12,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO LAND CONSERVANCY: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHINK NEW MEXICO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOREST SERVICE EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 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.

The Frost FoundationAlbuquerque Community…Santa Fe Community Fo…Carroll Petrie Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Frost FoundationNM15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Frost Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Carroll Petrie Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Idm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Idm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
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

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How do I get to Idm Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Idm 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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home