· Private foundation
Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $250k+1 grant · $780k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BOSTON FOUNDATION THE JEROME AVENUE FUND | $780,000 |
| THE BOSTON FOUNDATION THE JEROME AVENUE FUND | $12,142 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
85 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 85 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $792k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER3× · 2018–2020 · $675k · revenue +52%- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $62k · revenue +189%
- GUGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC7× · 2018–2024 · $51k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS NMone grant, 2021 · $5k
- RMROCKY MTN YOUTH CORPSone grant, 2021 · $5k
- HOHEART OF TAOSone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -57%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To assist communities to create solutions to homelessness from prevention through permanent housing by using action, advocacy, and awareness.
The casa program is a community-based program that recruits, trains and supports citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in courtrooms and communities. the organization serves children in…
New mexico dream center's mission is to restore the dreams of the hopeless, the helpless, the hurting and the broken. specifically, albuquerque new mexico has a huge gaping hole in services for homeless youth and trafficked minor children.…
The new mexico housing and community development corporation is successfully promoting the availability and quality of affordable housing for moderate and low income families throughout new mexico through the means of property…
Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.
To provide permanent housing and stabilizing support services to people exiting homelessness and managing mental health challenges.
Provide emergency shelter care for adult persons and their children who are victims of domestic violence, and educate the community about the problems related to domestic violence is all its forms.
To provide leadership, build partnerships and enable the innovation necessary to reestablish local food and energy production, strengthen educational systems and establish placemaking in our communities while promoting northeastern new…
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 &…
The mission of nif is to preserve and promote flamenco's artistry, history, and culture by presenting the finest flamenco in the world and by educating the american family in this art form while emphasizing the positive influence of art on…
Bold futures nm leads policy change, research, place-based organizing, and culture shift by and for women and people of color in new mexico. bold futures nm centers the lived experiences and expertise of those most impacted by an issue,…
How this is measured
86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 86 of the 134 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds SOLACE SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMING HOME CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TAOS HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM TREE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Esperanza Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds MANDY'S SPECIAL FARM ↗
- Who funds SAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION FOR NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds THE TAOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS ↗
- Who funds COOKING WITH KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE EARTH CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPEWORKS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MOUNTAIN REGION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO VETERANS INTEGRATION CENTERS ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW MEXICO ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Lineberry Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · St Vincent Hospital · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Abeles Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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