· Private foundation
La Liga
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $371k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $419k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS NEW MEXICO | $110,000 |
| NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $75,500 |
| CASA FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT | $65,000 |
| GROWING UP NEW MEXICO | $63,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| SE ASIA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GLOBAL SANTA FEE | $45,000 |
| COOKING WITH THE KIDS | $35,000 |
| CASA FOR CHILDREN MESILLA VALLEY CASA | $35,000 |
| MESILLA VALLEY CASA | $35,000 |
| REUNITY RESOURCES | $32,500 |
| EXODUS ENSEMBLE | $30,000 |
| SANTA FE DREAMERS PROJECT | $30,000 |
| COLLINS LAKE AUTISM CENTER | $25,000 |
| SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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
- SASE ASIA FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $253k · revenue +262%
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO2× · 2023–2025 · $210k · revenue +42%
- EEEXODUS ENSEMBLE3× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- WNWESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUNDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $51k · revenue +910%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
- SPST PATRICK SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $40k
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.
The santa fe botanical garden celebrates, cultivates and conserves the rich botanical heritage and biodiversity of our region. in partnership with nature, we demonstrate our commitment through education, science, conservation, community…
Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.
The svila collaborative dba centro savila is a treatment program devoted to the recovery and healing of individuals, families, and communities experiencing emotional and psychological distress. our vision is to create a healthy, engaged,…
Uwncnm's mission is to connect people to opportunities and services to equitably improve lives and strengthen communities. that is done through direct service programs, community investment (grant making), community outreach (convening and…
The universidad del sagrado corazon (sagrado) is an independent, nonprofit, catholic university, committed to the education of the whole person through strong foundation in the liberal arts. sagrado is part of puerto ricos oldest private,…
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,…
Future focused education's mission is to co-create systems of equity to sustain healthier and more prosperous communities for those who need it the most. we envision schools as sites of innovation and opportunity, where young people become…
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The santa fe institute is a transdisciplinary research community that expands the boundaries of scientific understanding. its aim is to discover, comprehend, and communicate the common fundamental principles in complex physical,…
To protect new mexico's water and acequias, grow healthy food for local families and communities, and to honor new mexico's cultural heritage.
Primary exempt purpose: at vida mejor capital, our mission is to empower new mexican small businesses through technical assistance and equitable access to capital, with a dedicated focus on advancing food justice, food sovereignty, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Fe Mountain Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 146 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 SE ASIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds MESILLA VALLEY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds EXODUS ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC ↗
- Who funds COOKING WITH KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLINS LAKE AUTISM CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds Collective Medicine ↗
- Who funds REUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds MADRONA VILLAGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND ↗
- Who funds BLESSING WAY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds VITAL SPACES INC ↗
- Who funds CONTIGO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE ↗
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 · Nusenda Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation · St Vincent Hospital · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Brindle Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Albuquerque Community Foundation · The Abeles 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 La Liga 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.