· Public charity
New Mexico Association of Counties
To strengthen nm counties' ability to govern their own affairs and improve the well-being and quality of life of their constituents.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $385k
- $250k+2 grants · $903k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN JUAN SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION | $527,780 |
| SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAIN RC&D COUNCIL | $374,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $175,000 |
| CUIDAD SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION | $109,824 |
| OTERO COUNTY | $99,997 |
| SANTA FE-POJOAQUE SOIL & WATER | $24,710 |
| GRANT COUNTY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,500 |
| CLAUNCH-PINTO SOILD & WATER | $19,500 |
| DIXON COMMUNITY FIRE DEPARTMENT | $13,527 |
| EAST MOUNTAIN WILDFIRE PREPAREDNESS | $13,090 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 76% of your 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
38 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 5 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $702k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TFTHE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD7× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +226%
- CFCENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT2× · 2022–2024 · $192k · revenue +104%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS3× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- ESEdgewood Soil & Water Conservation Districtone grant, 2023 · $409k
- MDMetropolitan Detention Center Bernalillo Countyone grant, 2024 · $274k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $126k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Rocky mountain youth corps engages young people in the outdoors, inspiring them to use their strengths and potential to lead healthy, productive lives. we teach responsibility for self, community, and environment through teamwork, service,…
Through education, innovation, and collaboration, quivira works in coalition with ranchers, farmers, government agencies, and land stewards to foster resilience on working lands.
Training/create jobs/conversation
Wilderness workshop's mission is to protect the wilderness, water, and wildlife of western colorado's public land.
To promote and protect Wildlife
Natural Resource Stewardship
Works with farmers and ranchers to address water issues around the state impacting agriculture.
San juan resource conservation and development council, inc.'s mission is to protect and improve the natural, cultural, historic and economic resources of the eight county area of southwest colorado.
The San Juan Citizens Alliance advocates for clean air, pure water, and healthy lands - the foundations of resilient communities, ecosystems and economies in the San Juan Basin.
To facilitate conservation of natural resources in new mexico by providing opportunities and quality support to local conservation districts through representation and leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Environmental Health Monitoring and Management and the most unlike its peers is Dixon Community Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 84 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.
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 · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Center for Technology and Civic Life · Institute for Responsive Government Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 New Mexico Association of Counties 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.