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NEW MEXICO ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES
The Association exists to be a united voice for the Counties of New Mexico and to provide services to the Counties in the areas of Public Policy Legislative Oversight Education for County elected officials and employees grants opportunities and information dissemination.
$1.1M
Granted FY2023
33
Grants
2
Communities
$409k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of NEW MEXICO ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
illegal dumping
2023
infectious diseasedisease preventionillegal dumping
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 33 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k14 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $319k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $328k
- $250k+1 grant · $409k
$13,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Edgewood Soil & Water Conservation District$408,682
- MDC Bernalillo County$126,088
- South Central Mountain RC&D$87,727
- Ciudad SWCD$61,967
- San Juan County$51,820
- Forest Stewards Guild$41,818
- Dona Ana County$36,943
- Eddy County Detention Center$33,263
- Dona Ana County$33,018
- Luna County$32,500
- Lea County$21,292
- Santa Fe County$21,179
- Valencia County$18,813
- Dixon Community Fire Department$15,267
- Taos County$14,982
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 15%. 76% of your 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.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 17 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
17
18
Total granted
$2.4M
$699k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+23%
+472%
Still filing today
18%
17%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $867k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentYouth DevelopmentReligionCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterScience & TechOther
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
- SCSouth Central Mountain RCD6× · 2018–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +18% · 53% of their budget
- FSForest Stewards Guild5× · 2018–2023 · $186k · revenue +226%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS2× · 2018–2019 · $68k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- GSGrant Soil & Water Conservation Disone grant, 2022 · $321k
- LCLea County New Mexicoone grant, 2022 · $91k
- UHUPPER HONDO SOIL WATER CONSERV DISone grant, 2020 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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.
1
Santa Fe Forest Coalition
Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico
Environment
2
Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute
The mission of the Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute is to promote public awareness, appreciation, and concern for nature generally and the natural diversity of the Chihuahuan Desert region specifically, through education, the visitor…
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3
Unm Rainforest Innovations
Supporting the university of new mexico as the source of innovation management, patent prosecution and licensing of technologies developed at the university of new mexico.
Education
4
San Juan Resource Conservation and
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.
Environment
5
Rocky Mountain Wild
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…
Environment
6
Chile-California Council
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
International
7
Center for Natural Lands Management
Perpetual protection and stewardship of lands, native species and their habitats, especially those natural resources that are sensitive, rare, or endangered.
Environment
8
Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc
To protect and enhance agricultural land, wildlife habitat and scenic lands in western colorado to benefit the community at large, enrich lives, and provide opportunities for outdoor recreation for future generations.
Environment
9
Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition
Working collaboratively, the Colville National Forest (CNF) and the Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition (NEWFC) focus on forest restoration, designing innovative stewardship through ecologically sound forest treatments that also…
Environment
10
Colorado Canyons Association
Colorado canyons association fosters community stewardship of our national conservation lands with a focus on dominguez-escalante, gunnison gorge and mcinnis canyons national conservation areas in western colorado. we are a non-partisan,…
Recreation & Sports
11
Cuenca Los Ojos
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
Environment
12
New Mexico Acequia Association
To protect new mexico's water and acequias, grow healthy food for local families and communities, and to honor new mexico's cultural heritage.
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Environmental Health 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.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$2,487,597Environment$1,147,164Youth Development$185,865Community Improvement$69,961Religion$67,813Science & Tech$36,364Public Safety & Disaster$15,267
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 FoundationNM15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · 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 organisation 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.
05Through 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: South Central Mountain RCD.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 850392844 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 South Central Mountain RCD, 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
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 53% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- 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 New Mexico Association of Counties?
Find your warmest path to New Mexico Association of Counties 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.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines