· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| Northern Jaguar Project | $5,400 |
| Feline Friends of New Mexico | $5,400 |
| Breath of My Heart Birthplace | $5,400 |
| Creative Thought and Action | $5,400 |
| Fyera Foundation | $5,400 |
| Freedom to Choose Project | $5,400 |
| Funds For Change | $5,400 |
| Chance of a Lifetime | $5,400 |
| The Path Inc | $4,500 |
| Lightning Boy Foundaiton Inc | $2,700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
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 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Veterans For Peace Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TEWA WOMEN UNITED ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pond Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pond Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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