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· Public charity

La Plazita Institute

To strengthen community and enable youth to leave behind destructive lifestyles by tapping into their roots to express core values.

$220k
Granted FY2021
22
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2021 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SAVILA COLLABORATIVE DBA CENTRO SAVILA$10,000
NM CAN NEW MEXICO CHILD ADVOCACY NETWORKS$10,000
FRONTLINE RESURRECTION$10,000
NM ASIAN FAMILY CENTER$10,000
CONSERVATION LEGACY$10,000
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC$10,000
CENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY DBA NM DREAM TEAM$10,000
VIZIONZ-SANKOFA$10,000
SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT$10,000
NACA- INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK$10,000
UNITED SOUTH BROADWAY CORPORATION$10,000
RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA TOGETHER FOR BROTHERS$10,000
RE-CYCLED MAN LLC$10,000
NM BLACK LEADERSHIP COUNCIL$10,000
BOLD FUTURES$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%VIZIONZ-SANKOFA: $10k → 14%NEW DAY YOUTH & FAMILIES SERVICE: $10k → 14%YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $10k → 14%BOLD FUTURES: $10k → 14%FRONTLINE RESURRECTION: $10k → 14%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.
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 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
Comunidad De Colores

Our mission is to promote health equity in Northern New Mexico by improving quality and access to health services regardless of one's insurance status or ability to pay.

Health
2
Community Power New Mexico
Community Improvement
3
Social and Emotional Learning Alliance for Nm

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is integral to human development and education. Through reliable developmental relationships, young people learn who they are and imagine who they might become as healthy, contributing adults in their…

Education
4
New Mexico Voices for Children

To improve the status, well-being and racial/ethnic equity of new mexicos children, families, and communities in the areas of health, education, and economic security by promoting public policies through credible research and effective…

Civil Rights
5
New Mexico Dream Center of Albuquerque

New mexico dream center's mission is to restore the dreams of the hopeless, the helpless, the hurting and the broken. specifically, albuquerque new mexico has a huge gaping hole in services for homeless youth and trafficked minor children.…

Religion
6
New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness

To assist communities to create solutions to homelessness from prevention through permanent housing by using action, advocacy, and awareness.

Housing & Shelter
7
New Mexico Reentry Center

Our mission is to stop the cycle of re-incarceration by providing training and support to the people of new mexico who are recovering from substance use disorders - mental health issues, while addressing housing insecurities.

Health
8
Nm Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe

CAFE is a faith based Non Profit community organization with the purpose of training and organizing low and moderate income families to shape public policy.

Human Services
9
Leadership New Mexico

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

Arts & Culture
10
New Mexico Peer Coalition

The New Mexico Peer Coalition supports those using their lived experience in supporting others on their recovery pathway

Arts & Culture
11
Alianza of New Mexico

Alianza's mission is to empower hard-to-reach, vulnerable, and underserved populations through education and supportive services aimed at working with everyone we serve to achieve better outcomes and higher quality of life.

Human Services
12
National Alliance on Mental Illness New Mexico

The organization is dedicated to improving the quality of life for New Mexicans who suffer from mental illness.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Child Advocacy Networks; the most unlike its peers is Frontline Resurrection. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOLD FUTURES NM: $10,000 · Human ServicesBOLD FUTURES NMA NEW DAY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesA NEW DAY INCYOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH DEVELOPMENT INCFrontline Resurrection: $10,000 · Human ServicesFrontline ResurrectionVIZIONZ SANKOFA: $10,000 · Human ServicesVIZIONZ SANKOFATHE TRANSGENDER RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW MEXICO: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE TRANSGENDER RESOURCE CENTER OF N…NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesNEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTERALBUQUERQUE CENTER FOR HOPE AND RECOVERY INC: $10,000 · HealthALBUQUERQUE CEN…HEALING ADDICTION IN OUR COMMUNITY- HAC: $10,000 · HealthHEALING ADDICTI…THE SAVILA COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 · HealthTHE SAVILA COLL…RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO: $10,000 · OtherRIO GRANDE COMMUNITY DEVE…NEW MEXICO CHILD ADVOCACY NETWORKS: $10,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO CHILD ADVOCACY…RE-CYCLED MAN LLC: $10,000 · OtherRE-CYCLED MAN LLCUNITED SOUTH BROADWAY CORPORATION INC: $10,000 · OtherUNITED SOUTH BROADWAY COR…NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK: $10,000 · OtherNACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NET…SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $20,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHWEST …Keshet Dance Company: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentKeshet Dan…CONSERVATION LEGACY: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONSERVATI…CENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $10,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR…NEW MEXICO BLACK LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $10,000 · Public BenefitNEW MEXICO…Pegasus Legal Services for Children: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$70,000Health$30,000Other$50,000Civil Rights$20,000Youth Development$20,000Public Benefit$20,000Crime & Legal$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBOLD FUTURES NM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALBUQUERQUE CENTER FOR HOPE AND RECOVERY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetKeshet Dance Company: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetA NEW DAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPegasus Legal Services for Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONSERVATION LEGACY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIO GRANDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW MEXICO CHILD ADVOCACY NETWORKS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED SOUTH BROADWAY CORPORATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE TRANSGENDER RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW MEXICO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEALING ADDICTION IN OUR COMMUNITY- HAC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SAVILA COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW MEXICO BLACK LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Albuquerque Community…Santa Fe Community Fo…Con Alma Health Found…Marshall L and Perrin…Pnm Tnmp FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationNew Mexico Fund for W…Nusenda FoundationNew Mexico Community …Annie E Casey Foundat…Amalgamated Charitabl…Southwest Organizing …
Albuquerque Community FoundationNM36.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albuquerque Community Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · New Mexico Fund for Women and Girls · Nusenda Foundation · New Mexico Community Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Southwest Organizing Project

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to La Plazita Institute?

    Find your warmest path to La Plazita Institute 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.

    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 21 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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