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Luther A Sizemore 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Congregation Albert | $2,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,153 |
| Steelbridge Ministries | $750 |
| Joy Junction | $750 |
| Good Shepherd Center | $750 |
| The Salvation Army | $750 |
| Children's Cancer Fund of NM | $500 |
| NM Special Olympics | $500 |
| UNM Foundation - Lobo Food Pantry | $500 |
| Landmark Musicals | $500 |
| UNM Foundation - UNM Tennis Foundat | $500 |
| Meals on Wheels - Albuquerque | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +70% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- SSSANDIA SCHOOL5× · 2017–2021 · $37k · revenue +27%
- LMLANDMARK MUSICALS4× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +346%
- SMSTEELBRIDGE MINISTRIES FKA ALBUQUERQUE RESCUE MISSION3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +27%
- MDMANZANO DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $750 · revenue +16%
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.
Northern new mexicans protecting land water and rights strives to lessen the stress of neighborhood tensions due to lack of information and fair representation. by providing an organization whose main goal is to unite and empower the…
To strengthen the local food system by supporting new mexico's agricultural producers and creating strong networks for a healthier state. this involves educating the public about eating healthy, locally grown and produced food; engaging…
Create powerful engagements and partnerships that lead to increased philanthropy, investment, innovation, and support for the university of new mexico.
Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.
Cooking with kids educates and empowers children and families to make healthy food choices through hands-on nutrition education with fresh, affordable foods.
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,…
The cnm foundation is committed to the principle that no central new mexico community college student should be denied the opportunity for an education or vocational training due solely to a lack of financial resources. the cnm foundation…
The food depot fosters healthy communities by engaging a network of partners and developing solutions to create a hunger-free new mexico.
The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico serves as a community resource, connects donors to needs, and supports charitable organizations in their work.
The alumni association is a vital partner in the continued excellence of the university of new mexico through the significant engagement of alumni. the alumni association's mission is to serve as a bridge between alumni and the university…
The mission of the new mexico perinatal collaborative is to convene stakeholders to achieve health equity through the promotion of evidence- based reproductive and perinatal health practices that: increase collaboration with communities…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Cancer Fund of New Mexico and the most unlike its peers is Pnm Tnmp Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 42 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 SANDIA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK MUSICALS ↗
- Who funds STEELBRIDGE MINISTRIES FKA ALBUQUERQUE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PNM TNMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND OF NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels New Mexico ↗
- Who funds MANZANO DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
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: Albuquerque Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Luther A Sizemore 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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