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Prairiefire Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Environment$73kArts & Culture$40kPhilanthropy$11kPublic Benefit$10kEducation$8kHealth$4kReligion$1kInternational$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE INC$11,000
SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO$3,000
NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,000
CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND$3,000
NEW ENERGY ECONOMY INC$3,000
NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE$3,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE ORION SOCIETY: $1k → 12%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $500 → 16%CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO: $3k → 12%CVNM EDUCATION FUND: $3k → 14%TRANSPARENT WATERCOLOR SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $500 → 5%REFUGEEONE: $1k → 14%ORION MAGAZINE: $1k → 12%CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND: $3k → 12%NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $3k → 14%CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%NEW ENERGY ECONOMY: $3k → 12%CVNM EDUCATION FUND: $3k → 14%CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%NEW ENERGY ECONOMY INC: $3k → 12%NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $3k → 14%CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO: $3k → 12%CVNM EDUCATION FUND: $2k → 14%NEW ENERGY ECONOMY: $3k → 12%NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $2k → 14%SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO: $3k → 12%NEW ENERGY ECONOMY: $2k → 12%SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO: $1k → 12%NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $12k → 12%INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE: $12k → 12%NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $12k → 12%INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE INC: $11k → 12%INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE: $9k → 12%NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $9k → 12%1NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $8k → 12%INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE: $7k → 12%NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $4k → 12%NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $3k → 12%NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%IFAM: $1k → 12%IFAM: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$131k · 8 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$131k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+120%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureReligionCivil RightsOther

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

  • NM
    NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
    6× · 2017–2022 · $47k · revenue +133%
  • NE
    NEW ENERGY ECONOMY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +80%
  • NM
    NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • R
    REFUGEEONEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +190%
  • TO
    THE ORION SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +11%

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
Conservation Voters New Mexico

To hold elected officials accountable for their environmental votes and to educate voters on conservation issues.

2
New Mexico Wild Action Fund

New mexico wild action fund is dedicated to advancing policies that protect new mexico's wilderness, wildlife, and water.

Environment
3
Cimarron Watershed Alliance Inc

To restore, maintain, and/or preserve surface and groundwater quality, aquatic resources, and water supplies. serve as a resource on watershed issues and information. to protect, restore, and maintain natural resources (land, water,…

Environment
4
Community Power New Mexico
Community Improvement
5
Northern New Mexicans Protecting Land Water and Rights Inc

Northern new mexicans protecting land water and rights strives to lessen the stress of neighborhood tensions due to lack of information and fair representation. by providing an organization whose main goal is to unite and empower the…

6
Nmc Inc

New mexico consortium (nmc) integrates the needs of new mexico's research universities to build liason research between local universities and organizations. nmc builds strategic connections with scientific institutions throughout the…

Education
7
Natural Resource Governance Institute

Nrgi envisions a world where natural resources enable fair, prosperous and sustainable societies, instead of undermining them. nrgi exists because decisions about how natural resources are governed determine the well-being of people in…

International
8
New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association Inc

The mission of the new mexico rural electric cooperatives (nmrec) is to advance protect and advocate member interests.

9
Northeastern New Mexico Educational Foundation Inc

To provide leadership, build partnerships and enable the innovation necessary to reestablish local food and energy production, strengthen educational systems and establish placemaking in our communities while promoting northeastern new…

Arts & Culture
10
New Mexico Oil & Gas Association

To promote the safe and responsible development of oil and gas resources in new mexico through advocacy, collaboration, and education.

11
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
12
New Mexico Ethics Watch

New mexico ethics watch is dedicated to promoting ethics and accountability in government and public life.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $47,000 · EnvironmentNEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERNEW ENERGY ECONOMY INC — $11,000 · EnvironmentNEW ENERGY ECONOMY INCNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE — $10,750 · EnvironmentNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE INC DBA IFAM — $39,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIAN…+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureSEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO NEWS — $10,000 · OtherSEARCHLIGHT NEW…CVNM EDUCATION FUND — $8,000 · OtherCVNM EDUCATION …IFAM — $2,000 · OtherIFAMIndividual grant recipient — $1,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $11,000 · PhilanthropyCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION — $3,500 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $500 · HealthCONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND — $3,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEEONE — $1,000 · Religion
Environment$69,750Arts & Culture$39,500Other$21,000Philanthropy$11,000Health$4,000Civil Rights$3,000Religion$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $47,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE INC DBA IFAM — $39,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNEW ENERGY ECONOMY INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE — $10,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO NEWS — $10,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ORION SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTransparent Watercolor Society of America — $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation IncNM15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Prairiefire 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • The Orion Society Inc2% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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