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La Liga at a glance

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La Liga

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$842k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$992kArts & Culture$580kHealth$405kInternational$401kCrime & Legal$240kHuman Services$188kCivil Rights$167kPhilanthropy$124kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $371k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $419k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$121k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$25,000
COLLINS LAKE AUTISM CENTER$25,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Collective Medicine: $48k → 16%Realize Impact: $10k → 10%Collective Medicine: $36k → 16%Collins Lake Autism Center: $30k → 21%Marici: $500 → 14%Covenant House: $1k → 17%COLLINS LAKE AUTISM CENTER: $25k → 21%COLLINS LAKE AUTISM CENTER: $25k → 21%Arc of Grays Harbor: $2k → 18%COLLINS LAKE AUTISM CENTER: $25k → 21%ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST: $500 → 12%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $5k → 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

WA
MN
IL
NY
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
NM
DC
MS
AL
TX
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 42 repeat orgs$711k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
92

Total granted

$2.9M
$600k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+20%

Still filing today

48%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • SA
    SE ASIA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $253k · revenue +262%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO
    2× · 2023–2025 · $210k · revenue +42%
  • EE
    EXODUS ENSEMBLE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • WN
    WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $51k · revenue +910%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • SP
    ST PATRICK SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
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
Santa Fe Botanical Garden

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…

Environment
2
Leadership New Mexico

Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.

Arts & Culture
3
The Savila Collaborative

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,…

Health
4
United Way of North Central New Mexico

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…

Philanthropy
5
Universidad Del Sagrado Corazon Inc

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,…

Education
6
Bold Futures Nm

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,…

Human Services
7
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
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8
Future Focused Education

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…

Education
9
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
10
Santa Fe Institute

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,…

Science & Tech
11
New Mexico Acequia Association

To protect new mexico's water and acequias, grow healthy food for local families and communities, and to honor new mexico's cultural heritage.

Environment
12
Vida Mejor Capital Inc

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Fe Mountain Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
41/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $209,738 · OtherNEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF THE ARTSCASA FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT: $195,000 · OtherCASA FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICTWNMU FOUNDATION: $128,000 · OtherWNMU FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $105,138 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherCOOKING WITH KIDS INC: $110,000 · OtherGLOBAL SANTA FE: $97,740 · Other+97 more: $1,212,686 · Other+97 moreSE ASIA FOUNDATION: $253,000 · EducationSE ASIA FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO: $210,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOO…RAINIER SCHOLARS: $55,500 · EducationRAINIER SCHOLARSWESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND: $51,000 · EducationWESTERN NEW MEXICO U…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $37,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHE…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $32,656 · Education+6 more: $28,650 · EducationCOLLINS LAKE AUTISM CENTER: $105,000 · Human ServicesCollective Medicine: $83,300 · Human ServicesRealize Impact: $10,000 · Human Services+5 more: $8,500 · Human ServicesEXODUS ENSEMBLE: $125,000 · Arts & CultureBLESSING WAY: $44,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $7,625 · Arts & CultureST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $107,000 · HealthCANCER FOUNDATION FOR NEW MEXICO: $19,250 · HealthSANTA FE MOUNTAIN CENTER INC: $17,940 · HealthPresbyterian Healthcare Foundation: $15,000 · HealthWHOLE WOMAN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Health+4 more: $7,405 · HealthMESILLA VALLEY CASA INC: $135,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $500 · Civil RightsGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC: $118,300 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$2,243,302Education$667,806Human Services$206,800Arts & Culture$177,125Health$176,595Civil Rights$135,500Philanthropy$120,800

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSE ASIA FOUNDATION: $253,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO: $210,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMESILLA VALLEY CASA INC: $135,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetEXODUS ENSEMBLE: $125,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC: $118,300 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOOKING WITH KIDS INC: $110,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $107,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCOLLINS LAKE AUTISM CENTER: $105,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetGLOBAL SANTA FE: $97,740 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetCollective Medicine: $83,300 over 2y, 29% of budgetREUNITY RESOURCES: $70,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMADRONA VILLAGE SCHOOL: $59,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $55,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND: $51,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBLESSING WAY: $44,500 over 3y, 42% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $37,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $32,656 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONTIGO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION FOR NEW MEXICO: $19,250 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSANTA FE MOUNTAIN CENTER INC: $17,940 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIMPACT PERSONAL SAFETY: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $12,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH: $10,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACEQUIA MADRE HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWHOLE WOMAN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW MEXICO LITERACY INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRealize Impact: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBulletin of the Atomic Scientists: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HOUSE: $6,430 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEWA WOMEN UNITED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESPONSE OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEMIARTEFLAMENCO ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRecursos de Santa Fe: $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSITE SANTA FE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget5P SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe ARC of Grays Harbor: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOQUIAM FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $1,155 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAILYARD PARK CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN INDIGENOUS COLLECTIVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWitter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $500 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Santa Fe Community Fo…Nusenda FoundationPnm Tnmp FoundationGale Family FoundationLos Alamos National L…St Vincent HospitalNancy Ann Mellen Foun…Anchorum St VincentBrindle FoundationCon Alma Health Found…Albuquerque Community…The Abeles Foundation
Santa Fe Community FoundationNM46× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report 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.

    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 146 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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