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James M Ewell Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| William A and Deborah E Currin Philant | $14,583 |
| Access Fund | $9,000 |
| Jeffco Action Center | $7,000 |
| Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus | $6,000 |
| Sense of Security | $5,000 |
| Four Corners Home for Children | $3,000 |
| Santa Fe Opera | $3,000 |
| Outdoor Lab Foundation | $2,583 |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc in Washington | $2,583 |
| Southwestern Association for Indian Arts | $2,500 |
| MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING | $2,083 |
| Adopt-a-Native Elder | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 30% 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.
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 26% of James M Ewell Charitable Foundation’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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 12 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- SOSENSE OF SECURITY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +43%
- JAJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +24%
- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA7× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- CICHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +98%
- OUOtterbein Universityone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +6%
- HCHUDSON CITY SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Green Mountain High School Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 34 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 HUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUR CORNERS HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SENSE OF SECURITY INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds Green Mountain High School Foundation ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR LAB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Native Elder ↗
- Who funds THE ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE INC DBA IFAM ↗
- Who funds Otterbein University ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ONE HUMANITY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING ↗
- Who funds THE CLARK HULINGS FOUNDATION DBA THE CLARK HULINGS FUND ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION BEYOND BORDERS ↗
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 · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 James M Ewell Charitable 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.