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Los Alamos Community Foundation

To improve the quality of life in our community by inspiring, facilitating and supporting enduring philanthropy and building the capacity and success of our nonprofit organizations.

$82k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$35kEducation$16kHousing & Shelter$13kArts & Culture$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $51,127, the rows itemized in this filing. The $82,187 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $31,060 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ALAMOS FAMILY COUNCIL$16,127
MESA TO MESA$12,500
LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY FND$10,000
FIRST BORN PROGRAM OF$7,000
DANCE ARTS LOS ALAMOS$5,500
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 (FY25–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FIRST BORN PROGRAM OF: $7k → 10%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.

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Los Alamos Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Los Alamos School of Gymnastics

promote a competitive gymnastics program & gymnastics progression

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3
Los Lunas Association New Mexico Pop Warner
Recreation & Sports
4
Los Alamos High Flyers Gymnastics

Teach gymnastics to kids from ages 2 and up.

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5
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
6
Los Alamos Study Group

The Los Alamos Study Group seeks nuclear disarmament, environmental protection and enhancement, social justice, and economic sustainability -- goals which are closely interrelated, mutually reinforcing, and essential to one another.

International
7
Los Alamos Concert Association

To provide concerts, recitals, and other musical performances for residents of Los Alamos and surrounding areas. To cultivate in residents of Los Alamos and its surrounding areas an interest in and knowledge of good music.

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8
Los Alamos Visiting Nurse Service Inc

Los alamos visiting nurse service, inc. is dedicated to maintaining delivery of the highest quality of home care and hospice service to the residents of los alamos county and the northern new mexico service area.

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9
Alas Ayudando Latinos a Sonar

Alas is primary to provide social wellness through multicultural practices, mental health care, individualized and collective support related to education, immigration process, and social services to latino families in half moon bay and…

Human Services
10
La Paloma Family Services Inc

We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.

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11
The Alliance for Community Wellness Dba La Familia Counseling Services

La Familia Counseling Service is an inclusive Latino community-based, multi-cultural organization committed to strengthening the emotional wellness of individuals and the preservation of families.

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12
Los Altos Parent Preschool

Lapp is a community of parents and educators committed to providing an enriching environment for our children through parents education, parent involvent, and mutual support. we are a child-centered, developmentally appropriate, anti-bias…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Alamos Family Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mesa to Mesa. 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

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 10 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)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOS ALAMOS FAMILY COUNCIL INC: $16,127 · OtherLOS ALAMOS FAMILY COUNCIL INCIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Family YMCA: $6,700 · OtherThe Family YMCALOS ALAMOS ARTS COUNCIL: $6,531 · OtherLOS ALAMOS ARTS COUNCILLOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationLOS ALAMOS NATIONAL L…LOS ALAMOS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,650 · EducationLOS ALAMOS PUBLIC SCH…MESA TO MESA: $12,500 · Housing & ShelterMESA TO MESAFIRST BORN PROGRAM OF LOS ALAMOS: $7,000 · Human ServicesFIRST BOR…SELF HELP INC: $5,547 · Crime & LegalDANCE ARTS LOS ALAMOS: $5,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$37,358Education$15,650Housing & Shelter$12,500Human Services$7,000Crime & Legal$5,547Arts & Culture$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOS ALAMOS FAMILY COUNCIL INC: $16,127 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFIRST BORN PROGRAM OF LOS ALAMOS: $7,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Family YMCA: $6,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ALAMOS ARTS COUNCIL: $6,531 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLOS ALAMOS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,650 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSELF HELP INC: $5,547 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDANCE ARTS LOS ALAMOS: $5,500 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

United Way of Northern New Mexico Serving Los Alamos & Rio Arriba CoNM20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Northern New Mexico Serving Los Alamos & Rio Arriba Co · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Battelle Memorial Institute · Anchorum St Vincent · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Los Alamos Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Los Alamos Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 Los Alamos Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Los Alamos Community 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 10 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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