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New Gold Mesquite Foundation Inc

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.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$68kHuman Services$40kArts & Culture$33kYouth Development$27kCrime & Legal$25kEducation$24kRecreation & Sports$18kPhilanthropy$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRAWLEY CATTLE CALL RODEO COMMITTEE$7,500
IMPERIAL VALLEY REGIONAL OCCUPATION$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$5,000
IMPERIAL VALLEY DESERT MUSEUM SOCIE$5,000
IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK$5,000
SURE HELPLINE CENTER$5,000
IVC FOUNDATION$5,000
MANA DE IMPERIAL VALLEY$3,000
CENTRAL UNION HIGH SCHOOL$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
BRAWLEY AMERICAN CITIZENS CLUB$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 21%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 21%BEST STEP FORWARD: $2k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$244k · 11 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +127% since the first grant, against +102% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$244k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+127%
+102%

Still filing today

55%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IV
    IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK
    7× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +127%
  • SH
    SURE HELPLINE CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +154%
  • MD
    MANA DE IMPERIAL VALLEY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +440%

Funded once

  • SH
    SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • BW
    Between Women Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -75%
  • BS
    BEST STEP FORWARDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +102%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Imperial Valley Wellness Foundation

IVWF partners with local non-profit organizations to address pressing health issues for Imperial County's most vulnerable populations. IVWF provides funding for efforts addressing healthy eating, active living: community prevention linked…

Health
2
Imperial County Historical Society

To procure, restore, reconstruct, preserve and protect the history of imperial county in the state of california.

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3
United Way of Imperial County

The United Way of Imperial County raises money in Imperial County from People in the work place, businesses, and individuals to help support agencies that serve the community.

Philanthropy
4
Inland Empire Rescue Mission Inc

Serve the least, the last and lost in the Inland Empire

—
5
Imperial Regional Alliance Inc

IRA has a mission to improve the quality of life of low to moderate income populations of Imperial Valley by providing a link between education, job training and employment opportunities. This organization develops and pursues initiatives…

Community Improvement
6
Women Strenghtening Women

Charitable Benevolence Outreach

Community Improvement
7
Irwindale Educational Foundation
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8
Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Collective

The Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Collective creates a safe space for immigrant youth to express themselves and achieve their full potential and their identity that intersects with being undocumented. Through grassroots organizing, our…

Human Services
9
California Federation of Women Dba Womans Club of Vista

Organization is dedicated to the education and wellness of the community, providing services, charitable contributions, and scholarships.

—
10
Inland Valleys Association of Realtors

The core purpose of IVAR is to help its members become more professional and profitable, while promoting and protecting real property rights.

Membership Benefit
11
Imperial Valley Lgbt Resource Center Inc

The purpose of this corporation is to provide charitable and educational programs that promote health & well-being for all individuals, including LGBTQ+ community members & allies. We are dedicated to serving everyone through compassionate…

Civil Rights
12
Kern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

To create, promote and enhance business opportunities for our membership, and provide business, cultural and resource linkages, with special emphasis on the Hispanic community.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Imperial Valley Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Brawley Cattle Call Rodeo Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK: $67,500 · OtherIMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANKCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $40,000 · OtherCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside CountiesSURE HELPLINE CENTER: $25,000 · OtherSURE HELPLINE CENTERIMPERIAL VALLEY DESERT MUSEUM SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · OtherIMPERIAL VALLEY DESERT MUSEUM SOCIETY INCIMPERIAL VALLEY REGIONAL OCCUPATION: $17,500 · OtherIMPERIAL VALLEY REGIONAL OCCUPATIONIndividual grant recipient: $15,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIMPERIAL VALLEY DESERT MUSEUM: $12,500 · OtherDONORS OF VALLEY ENDEAVORS: $10,500 · OtherCITY OF BRAWLEY PARKS AND RECREATIO: $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF IMPERIAL VAL: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $18,000 · Other+5 moreMANA DE IMPERIAL VALLEY: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRAWLEY CATTLE CALL RODEO COMMITTEE INC: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsImperial Valley Community Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBEST STEP FORWARD: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$246,500Youth Development$15,000Recreation & Sports$7,500Philanthropy$5,000Human Services$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK: $67,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSURE HELPLINE CENTER: $25,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetIMPERIAL VALLEY DESERT MUSEUM SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMANA DE IMPERIAL VALLEY: $15,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetDONORS OF VALLEY ENDEAVORS: $10,500 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetBRAWLEY CATTLE CALL RODEO COMMITTEE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetImperial Valley Community Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBetween Women Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBEST STEP FORWARD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
  • Who funds SURE HELPLINE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds IMPERIAL VALLEY DESERT MUSEUM SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MANA DE IMPERIAL VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds DONORS OF VALLEY ENDEAVORS ↗
  • Who funds BRAWLEY CATTLE CALL RODEO COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds Imperial Valley Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Between Women Inc ↗
  • Who funds BEST STEP FORWARD ↗

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.

Citizens Energy CorporationMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Citizens Energy Corporation · Berkshire Hathaway Energy Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization New Gold Mesquite Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Gold Mesquite Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to New Gold Mesquite Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to New Gold Mesquite Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 19 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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