· Private foundation
Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $169k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $520k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PERCENTAGE IMPACT FOUNDATION | $42,892 |
| NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY TRUST | $25,000 |
| THE NEON MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| CREATIVE SANTA FE | $20,000 |
| LEFT OF CENTER ART GALLERY (LOC) | $15,000 |
| OBODO COLLECTIVE | $15,000 |
| LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER | $15,000 |
| DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| MARJORIE BARRICK MUSEUM OF ART | $15,000 |
| INDIGENOUSAF (IAF INC) | $15,000 |
| FOREST FORWARD | $15,000 |
| DALLAS ART THERAPY | $15,000 |
| REDLINE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER | $12,500 |
| POEH CULTURAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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 94% of Meow Wolf Philanthropic 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, 37% of the giving stays in NM; read by stated purpose it is 0% — 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.
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.
CelebracinArtstica de lasAmricas(CALA)Alliancecollaborates with artists and arts organizations to nurture artistic talent, focusing onartistsfrom the Latin American diaspora.Through innovative artist residencies, commissions, community…
The Arts Foundation mission is to advance artistic expression, civic participation, and equitable economic growth of our diverse community by supporting, promoting, and advocating for arts and culture in our region.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Luminaria delivers a contemporary arts program that includes a festival of international stature; supports downtown and the urban core; and brings attention to San Antonios multi-arts culture.
The mission of the Cortez Cultural Center is to provide programs that enrich the lives of our community and its visitors by increasing cultural awareness, promoting the arts, and educating about the area's history, diversity and natural…
The Taos Center for the Arts draws on its history as a dynamic leader for arts collaboration and partnership. Originally established by a group of working artists in 1953 and situated in the heart of Taos, the TCA serves and engages…
Mission is to promote, present and preserve hispanic arts & culture of nm. showcasing, encourging & supporting participation of hispanics in local arts economy; and presenting creative & cultural richness of our heritage, including arts &…
516 ARTS is a non-collecting contemporary art museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico that celebrates thought-provoking art in the here and now. At the core of its mission, 516 ARTS seeks to connect contemporary artists and diverse audiences.…
MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana is an inclusive contemporary arts space grounded in the Chicano/Latino experience that incubates new visual, literary and performance art in order to engage people in civic dialogue and…
Through a variety of media created by emerging and established artists, the center for contemporary arts of santa fe, inc. (center) presents the arts of our time as vital elements in the cultural dialogue in santa fe and throughout new…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latino Cultural Arts Center and the most unlike its peers is Kinfolk House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 71 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 COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds THE NEON MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Dallas Art Therapy ↗
- Who funds LEFT OF CENTER ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOREST FORWARD ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEWA WOMEN UNITED ↗
- Who funds ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds Project Row Houses ↗
- Who funds COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SU TEATRO INC ↗
- Who funds CARA MIA THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds ACCESS GALLERY ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds WORKING CLASSROOM INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds LAS VEGAS INDIAN CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds The Orange Show Foundation ↗
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 · Rose Community Foundation · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Redline · National Association of Latino Arts and Culture · Colorado Gives Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc
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 Meow Wolf Philanthropic 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.
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