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Life Center Foundation

Provide funding for non-profit organizations that provide programs for nm children and teens

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$149kEducation$37kHuman Services$26kHousing & Shelter$20k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$351k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$100,000
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 (FY17–22, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THINK NEW MEXICO: $6k → 12%YOUTH SHELTERS AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 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.
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
Leadership New Mexico

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

Arts & Culture
2
Santa Fe Indian School

Provide educational and residential opportunities for native american children in grades 7-12.

Education
3
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
4
New Mexico Out-of School Time Network

To cultivate enriching experiences for children and youth beyond the school day. vision: all children and youth in new mexico have access to high quality out-of-school time (ost) opportunities regardless of zip code and income. the new…

Education
5
Santa Fe Preparatory School

Santa fe preparatory school is an independent co-educational college preparatory day school, grades 7 through 12, dedictaed to educational excellence.

Education
6
Jobs for Americas Graduates Nm Inc

Jobs for Americas Graduates - NM JAG-NM transforms communities, one student at a time, by re-engaging academically vulnerable high school students and preparing them to reach their potential through graduation and beyond.

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7
Albuquerque Academy

Albuquerque academy is a non-denominational, coeducational, independent day school.

Education
8
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
9
New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project Inc

To meet the challenge of youth suicide in santa fe and northern new mexico through lasting solutions that encourage resiliency, courage, connection and hope.

Health
10
Cooking With Kids Inc

Cooking with kids educates and empowers children and families to make healthy food choices through hands-on nutrition education with fresh, affordable foods.

Youth Development
11
National Institute of Mexican American History of Civil Rights
Civil Rights
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of New Mexico; the most unlike its peers is ArtSMART. 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

11 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.

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)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INCTHE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS OF SANTA FE INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureArtSMART: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING: $10,000 · EducationTHE MAY CENTER FOR…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO: $10,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCH…NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: $10,000 · EducationNEW MEXICO SCHOOL …COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $7,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCH…YOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH SHELTE…THINK NEW MEXICO: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHINK NEW ME…SARANAM LLC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSARANAM L…
Arts & Culture$149,000Education$37,000Human Services$26,000Housing & Shelter$20,000

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 budgetSANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $120,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSARANAM LLC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS OF SANTA FE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArtSMART: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHINK NEW MEXICO: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Santa Fe Community FoundationNM23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · Lineberry Foundation · Feinberg Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · MIller Engel Family Foundation Irrv Tr · The Delle Foundation · The Bingaman 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 Life Center Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Life Center Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
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    How do I get to Life Center Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Life Center 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.

    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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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