· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +27%
- 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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization La Luz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from La Luz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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