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Pond Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Animal Protection of NM | $5,400 |
| Tewa Women United | $5,400 |
| Assert The Second Responder Inc | $5,400 |
| Assistnace Dogs of the West | $5,400 |
| Creative Thought and Action | $5,400 |
| Fyera Foundation | $5,400 |
| Northern Jaguar Project | $5,400 |
| Freedom to Choose Project | $5,400 |
| Chance of a Lifetime | $5,400 |
| Funds For Change | $5,400 |
| Feline Friends of New Mexico | $5,400 |
| Breath of My Heart Birthplace | $5,400 |
| The Path Inc | $4,500 |
| Lightning Boy Foundaiton Inc | $2,700 |
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 (FY22–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- NJNORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT2× · 2022–2023 · $11k · revenue +24%
- BOBREATH OF MY HEART BIRTH PLACE2× · 2022–2023 · $11k · revenue +192%
- ACA CHANCE OF A LIFETIME2× · 2022–2023 · $11k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- VFVeterans For Peace Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +31%
- FFFund for Changeone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -57%
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.
Friends Peace Teams is a Spirit-led organization working around the world to develop long-term relationships with communities in conflict to create programs for peace building, healing & reconciliation based on extensive Quaker experience.
Child mental and physical well-being have been on the decline for over 50 years in the USA, the wealthiest nation on earth. Kindred World began as a grassroots, consciousness-raising organization of parents and professionals in 1996,…
Womanshare Legacy is an educational, financial and cultural resource for women who may be facing challenges because of discrimination, lack of opportunities or scarcity of personal support. Womanshare Legacy works locally with women,…
Healing Bridges works with traditional communities to create audiovisual products about their beliefs, engages in various forms of advocacy and other supporting activities in national and international arenas to protect and strengthen…
Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
To produce, promote, and assist charitable activites that encourage world peace, help underprivileged people (especially women and children), promote environmental preservation, advocate cultural preservation through, but not limited to,…
To promote healing, positive cultural identity, holistic wellness and connection among intergenerational indigenous women and our families by sharing our collective wisdom, traditions, wellness practices and stories. we focus on healing by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tewa Women United and the most unlike its peers is A Chance of a Lifetime. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 TEWA WOMEN UNITED ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Veterans For Peace Inc ↗
- Who funds BREATH OF MY HEART BIRTH PLACE ↗
- Who funds A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME ↗
- Who funds The Path Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTNING BOY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Fyera Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fund for Change ↗
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 · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Pond Foundation 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.