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New Mexico Coalition for Literacy
The mission of the NEW MEXICO COALITION FOR LITERACY is to coordinate, expand, and enhance new mexico programs so adults can read and write to achieve their goals.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $300,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $496,697 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $196,197 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIO ARRIBA ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM | $28,500 |
| READWEST | $28,000 |
| READ WRITE ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM | $28,000 |
| LITERACY LINK - LEAMOS | $28,000 |
| DEMING LITERACY PROGRAM | $28,000 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOCORRO COUN | $27,000 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SANTA FE | $23,000 |
| READING WORKS | $23,000 |
| TAOS EDUCATION AND CAREER CENTER | $23,000 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY ADULT LITERACY | $23,000 |
| HIDALGO COUNTY LITERACY PROGRAM | $21,000 |
| CARLSBAD LITERACY PROGRAM | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those 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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RIREADWEST INC4× · 2017–2020 · $113k · revenue +82% · 29% of their budget
- RWREAD WRITE ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM4× · 2017–2020 · $102k · revenue +19% · 88% of their budget
- LLLITERACY LINK - LEAMOS4× · 2017–2020 · $96k · revenue +39% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
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.
To provide adults with accessible and customized tutoring in English skills.
Tutoring for adults in reading, writing, speaking, and comprehending the English language
Develop local adult's reading, writing, speaking, and math skills. dedicated and trained tutors, work one-on-one with students using personalized lesson plans at a pace that is comfortable for the student.
Literacy training
Free literacy and numeracy tutoring for adults, free GED classes for adults.
Volunteer tutors teach individual and group classes
The mission of The Literacy Center is to provide literacy services and educational support to individuals and families seeking to acquire the skills needed to attain personal and employment goals.
To create/maintain/organize a network of volunteer tutors to teach adults (or young adults aged 16 or older, who have been removed from formal schooling) who perform below a 9th grade level to complete basic literacy tasks including, but…
To promote and foster increased literacy in laredo and the surrounding areas. operations are directed by a local voluntary board.
To identify, develop, promote and coordinate comprehensive programs & resources that will measurably reduce functional adult illiteracy in the corpus christi/coastal bend area.
Empowering adults to achieve literacy and improve their quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe and the most unlike its peers is Family Promise of Albuquerque Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 15 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.
- Who funds READWEST INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READ WRITE ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LITERACY LINK - LEAMOS ↗
- Who funds DEMING LITERACY PROGRAM LVA ↗
- Who funds Ethos Literacy ↗
- Who funds Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe ↗
- Who funds Valencia County Literacy Council ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF ALBUQUERQUE INC ↗
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: Albuquerque Community Foundation · Dollar General Literacy 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 organization New Mexico Coalition for Literacy 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.
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