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La Luz 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.
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 $10k3 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $176k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SOCCER ASSOCIATION | $176,000 |
| MOVING ARTS ESPANOLA | $27,003 |
| UNITED BY FRIENDSHIP | $20,000 |
| LIFE CIRCLE ADULT DAY CENTER | $18,899 |
| THE SANTA FE OPERA | $3,500 |
| ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM NEW MEXICO | $1,500 |
| NEW MEXICO MISSION OF MERCY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- NNNORTHERN NEW MEXICO SOCCER ASSOCIATION2× · 2023–2024 · $306k · revenue +15% · 32% of their budget
- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA2× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +6%
- LPLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +248%
Funded once
- SFSanta Fe Prep Schoolone grant, 2020 · $10k
- NHNM Highland University Foundationone grant, 2019 · $5k
- NMNEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue ×12
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.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Santa fe pro musica brings together outstanding musicians to inspire and educate audiences of all ages through the performance of great music.
Through a variety of media created by emerging and established artists, the center for contemporary arts of santa fe, inc. (center) presents the arts of our time as vital elements in the cultural dialogue in santa fe and throughout new…
Our Mission is to inspire and engage the youth of Northern New Mexico's multicultural communities through excellent music education, the guidance of music professionals, and performance opportunities from small ensemble to full orchestra…
The mission of the new mexico rural electric cooperatives (nmrec) is to advance protect and advocate member interests.
The santa fe conservation trust partners with our community to keep northern new mexico's living lands and people flourishing together. we protect culturally and environmentally significant landscapes, ignite people's passion for nature…
Provide performing arts events for southeast new mexico.
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
It is Wise Fool New Mexicos mission to ignite the imagination, build community, and promote social justice through performances and hands-on experiences in the arts of circus, puppetry, and theater.
Providing youth soccer training, developmental training, and small-sided soccer experience to appoximately 1,250 youth in the state of new mexico.
Santa fe playhouse creates community on stage and off by holding space for unexpected conversations through intriguing and vital programming. we create community by: -connecting artists with audiences through theatre. this includes: new…
Provide educational and residential opportunities for native american children in grades 7-12.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adaptive Sports Program New Mexico Inc and the most unlike its peers is United by Friendship Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 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 NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOVING ARTS ESPANOLA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds United by Friendship Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM NEW MEXICO INC ↗
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: Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Capitol Ford Charitable Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 La Luz 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.
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Find your warmest path to La Luz 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.