How much did MEOW WOLF PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

MEOW WOLF PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION reported 72 grants totaling $689,392 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is MEOW WOLF PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION based?

MEOW WOLF PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION is based in NM.

MEOW WOLF PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

MEOW WOLF PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION

This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.

$689k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$43k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k31 grants · $169k
$10k–50k41 grants · $520k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$54k

Total assets

Largest grants

PERCENTAGE IMPACT FOUNDATION$42,892
NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY TRUST$25,000
THE NEON MUSEUM$20,000
CREATIVE SANTA FE$20,000
FOREST FORWARD$15,000
DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$15,000
MARJORIE BARRICK MUSEUM OF ART$15,000
LEFT OF CENTER ART GALLERY (LOC)$15,000
DALLAS ART THERAPY$15,000
LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER$15,000
OBODO COLLECTIVE$15,000
INDIGENOUSAF (IAF INC)$15,000
REDLINE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER$12,500
ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT$10,000
CLEO PARKER ROBINSON DANCE$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 12%. 86% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

MEOW WOLF PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your field

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.

Taos Art Museum

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North Fourth Art Center

North Fourth Art Center's mission is to cultivate artistic creation and economic development in New Mexico through a wide range of art mediums including live performance, film & digital media, studio art, and more.

Arts & Culture

Site Santa Fe

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

Arts & Culture

Taos Center for the Arts

The TCA provides performing arts facilities and visual arts exhibit space.

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Teatro Hispano De Dallas

Teatro Dallas is committed to the cultural empowerment of the Latino community by representing our varied experiences, voices, and artistic expressions. Through high quality theatrical programming Teatro Dallas employs the power of theater…

Arts & Culture

Arts West

ArtsWest produces artistic events that provoke conversation, incite the imagination, and use live theater as a powerful agent of change.

Arts & Culture

Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities

Provide programs and services that connect and strengthen community through the arts.

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516 Arts

516 ARTS forges connections between art and audiences by being an active partner in developing the cultural landscape of Albuquerque and New Mexico. 516 ARTS offers programs inspiring curiosity, dialogue, risk-taking and creative…

Arts & Culture

Artesia Arts Council Inc

Artesia Arts Council develops and promotes community interest in the arts and enriches life in Southeastern New Mexico through professional artist concerts, fine arts classes, performing arts classes, and art galleries.

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Museo De Las Americas

The Museo De Las Americas is dedicated to educating our community through collecting preserving interpreting and exhibiting the diverse arts and cultures of the Americas from ancient to contemporary through innovative exhibitions and…

Arts & Culture

Durango Arts Center Inc

The Durango Arts Center ("DAC") enriches the community through innovative visual and performing art, and arts education. DAC advances appreciation and participation in the arts as a cultural leader in the region.

Arts & Culture

The Center for Contemporary Arts

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…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative Santa Fe 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 20 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/37

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,528

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.

04the grantee network

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/35

Grantees still filing

28/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$420,892Arts & Culture$166,000Human Services$35,000Health$25,000Youth Development$17,500Community Improvement$15,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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.

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.

Santa Fe Community FoundationNM23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune · Albuquerque Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Caring for Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · Redline

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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DALLAS ART THERAPY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 21.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 822409845 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on DALLAS ART THERAPY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MEOW WOLF PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation?

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MEOW WOLF PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation?

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