· Public charity
Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation
Our mission is to inspire excellence in education and learning in northern new mexico through innovative programming, collaboration and advocacy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $836,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,837,276 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,001,076 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $704k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING | $75,000 |
| PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| PUEBLO OF JEMEZ | $42,000 |
| BRIDGES PROJECT FOR EDUCATION | $30,000 |
| PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER (PEEC) | $27,400 |
| STEMARTS LAB | $27,400 |
| PUEBLO OF POJOAQUE | $27,000 |
| MORA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| PUEBLO OF TESUQUE | $25,000 |
| TWIRL A PLAY AND DISCOVERY SPACE INC | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| SANTA FE MOUNTAIN CENTER | $25,000 |
| TRUE KIDS 1 | $25,000 |
| CLIMATE ADVOCATES VOCES UNIDAS (CAVU) | $25,000 |
| COLLEGE AND CAREER PLAZA | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in NM; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- GAGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING4× · 2021–2024 · $269k · revenue +93%
- PIPARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS5× · 2018–2024 · $253k · revenue +49%
- SFSANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL4× · 2018–2022 · $197k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- NMNEW MEXICO IMMIGRANT LAW CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +192%
- NMNEW MEXICO APPLESEEDone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue -56%
- CCCULTIVATING CODERS INCone grant, 2017 · $58k · revenue -52%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Chama Arts Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
109 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. 109 of the 141 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 NEW MEXICO IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO APPLESEED ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MOVING ARTS ESPANOLA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NMC INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE AND CAREER PLAZA ↗
- Who funds PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Bridges Project for Education ↗
- Who funds YOUTHWORKS ↗
- Who funds KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE ADVOCATES VOCES UNIDAS ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STEMARTS LAB ↗
- Who funds LAS CUMBRES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO MESA INC ↗
- Who funds The Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds TRUE KIDS 1 ↗
- Who funds COOKING WITH KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS NEW MEXICO KRISTI DORR ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds STEM Santa Fe ↗
- Who funds READING QUEST ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds LOCALOGY ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER SCIENCE ALLIANCE ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · New Mexico Community Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Thornburg Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · Nusenda Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · The Taos Community Foundation Inc · The Frost 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 Los Alamos National Laboratory 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.