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Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$689k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
72
Grants FY2024
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$42,892
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$54k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New Mexico Community Trust$28,00011%
The Neon Museum$20,00010%
Creative Santa Fe$20,00014%
Latino Cultural Arts Center$15,00011%
Left of Center Art Gallery$15,000111%
Dallas Art Therapy$15,000118%
Forest Forward$15,00010%
Discovery Children's Museum$15,00010%
La Semilla Food Center$10,00010%
Colorado Business Committee for the Arts$10,00012%
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All grantees of Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New Mexico Community Trust$28,00011%
The Neon Museum$20,00010%
Creative Santa Fe$20,00014%
Latino Cultural Arts Center$15,00011%
Left of Center Art Gallery$15,000111%
Dallas Art Therapy$15,000118%
Forest Forward$15,00010%
Discovery Children's Museum$15,00010%
La Semilla Food Center$10,00010%
Colorado Business Committee for the Arts$10,00012%
Las Vegas Indian Centerinc$10,00012%
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$10,00010%
Tewa Women United$10,00010%
Su Teatro Inc$10,00010%
Project Row Houses$10,00010%
Resource Center$10,0001n/a
The Orange Show Foundation$10,00010%
Sun Valley Youth Center Inc$10,00010%
Working Classroom Inc$10,00012%
Opportunity Village$10,00010%
Zuni Youth Enrichment Project$10,00010%
Cara Mia Theatre Co$10,00011%
Access Gallery$10,00011%
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts$10,00011%
The Paseo Project Inc$7,50012%
Denver Art Society$7,50014%
Teatro Paraguas Inc$7,50014%
Museo de Las Americas$7,50011%
Sacred Voices$7,500116%
Reunity Resources$7,50010%
Denvers Art District on Santa Fe$7,500113%
Think 360 Arts for Learning$7,50011%
Keshet Dance Company$7,50010%
Axle Projects Inc$5,0001n/a
Make Santa Fe Inc$5,00012%
House of Shine Inc$5,00011%
New Mexico School for the Arts - Arts Institute$5,00010%
YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth$5,00010%
City of the World Inc$5,00017%
Moving Arts Espanola Incorporated$5,00011%
Nevada School of the Arts$5,00010%
Kinfolk House$1,50012%
Opera Southwest$1,00010%
Arts Connect Houston$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($275k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Mexico Community Trust: $28,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Neon Museum: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCreative Santa Fe: $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetLatino Cultural Arts Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLeft of Center Art Gallery: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDallas Art Therapy: $15,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetForest Forward: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDiscovery Children's Museum: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLa Semilla Food Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetColorado Business Committee for the Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLas Vegas Indian Centerinc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTewa Women United: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSu Teatro Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetProject Row Houses: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Orange Show Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSun Valley Youth Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWorking Classroom Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOpportunity Village: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZuni Youth Enrichment Project: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCara Mia Theatre Co: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAccess Gallery: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDowntown Aurora Visual Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Paseo Project Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDenver Art Society: $7,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTeatro Paraguas Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMuseo de Las Americas: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSacred Voices: $7,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetReunity Resources: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDenvers Art District on Santa Fe: $7,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetThink 360 Arts for Learning: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKeshet Dance Company: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMake Santa Fe Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHouse of Shine Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNew Mexico School for the Arts - Arts Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity of the World Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetMoving Arts Espanola Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNevada School of the Arts: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKinfolk House: $1,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOpera Southwest: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 41.

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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.

Santa Fe Community Fo…Rose Community Founda…Bonfils-Stanton Found…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Marshall L and Perrin…The Andrew W Mellon F…RedlineNational Association …Colorado Gives Founda…Communities Foundatio…Latino Community Foun…
Santa Fe Community FoundationNM24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation

How much does Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation give?
Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation reported 72 grants totaling $689,392 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (51%), Philanthropy (10%), Human Services (7%).
Who are Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: New Mexico Community Trust ($28k), The Neon Museum ($20k), Creative Santa Fe ($20k).
Does Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation.
Where is Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation based?
Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundation is based in NM.

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 71 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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