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S B 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.

$465k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.1MHealth$269kHuman Services$245kAnimals$158kHousing & Shelter$85kFood & Nutrition$80kPhilanthropy$60kCivil Rights$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $440k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIO GRANDE RETURN$40,000
BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK$20,000
AWARE$15,000
STANDEARTH$15,000
DISCOVERY SOUTHEAST$15,000
THE GLORY HALL$15,000
TIDELINES INSTITUTE$10,000
WILD SALMON CENTER$10,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$10,000
PROTECT OUR WINTERS$10,000
THINK NEW MEXICO$10,000
LA FAMILIA-HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS SANTA FE$10,000
CONSERVATION VOTERS NM EDUCATION FUND$10,000
INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK$10,000
GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE PARTNERS$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 11%GUSTAVUS COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 18%THINK NEW MEXICO: $10k → 12%BOLD FUTURES: $10k → 14%THINK NEW MEXICO: $10k → 12%BOLD FUTURES: $10k → 14%BOLD FUTURES: $10k → 14%THINK NEW MEXICO: $5k → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $5k → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $10k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $10k → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $10k → 12%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $10k → 12%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $10k → 12%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $10k → 12%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
ID
MT
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
CA
UT
CO
AZ
NM
KS
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 65 repeat orgs$454k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +52% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
48

Total granted

$2.0M
$379k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+52%

Still filing today

68%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsCivil RightsScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RG
    RIO GRANDE RETURN
    4× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +265%
  • CV
    CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +98%
  • BR
    BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK
    6× · 2019–2024 · $75k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • WG
    WILDEARTH GUARDIANS
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -1%
  • CS
    CIUDAD SWCD
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
2
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
3
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
4
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
5
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

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6
Santa Fe Forest Coalition

Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico

Environment
7
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
8
Wild Earth Society Incorporated

Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.

Arts & Culture
9
Water Protector Legal Collective

The water protector legal collective is an indigenous-led legal nonprofit that provides support and advocacy for indigenous peoples and original nations, the earth, and climate justice movements.

Crime & Legal
10
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
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
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Save Our Bosque Task Force. 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

68 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. 68 of the 122 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/68
Grantees still filing
54/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UPLIFT YOUTH CLIMATE CONFERENCE: $55,000 · OtherAWARE Inc: $50,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS SANTA FE: $45,000 · OtherTIDELINES INSTITUTE: $47,000 · Other+73 more: $1,052,000 · Other+73 moreRIO GRANDE RETURN: $135,000 · EnvironmentRIO GRANDE RETURNBORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK: $75,000 · EnvironmentBORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWOR…Black Mesa Trust inc: $55,000 · EnvironmentBlack Mesa Trust incSan Juan Citizens Alliance: $55,000 · EnvironmentSan Juan Citizens AllianceSTAND: $50,000 · EnvironmentSTANDALASKA DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentALASKA DISCOVERY FOUNDATION IN…GRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PA…THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentSITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $35,000 · EnvironmentECOFLIGHT: $25,000 · Environment+12 more: $141,500 · Environment+12 moreTHINK NEW MEXICO: $50,000 · Human ServicesTEWA WOMEN UNITED: $40,000 · Human ServicesBOLD FUTURES NM: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD DEPOT: $10,000 · Human ServicesGUSTAVUS COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $57,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $30,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $17,500 · HealthPresbyterian Healthcare Foundation: $17,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 · HealthJuneau Family Birth Center: $5,000 · HealthCONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND: $85,000 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $25,000 · Civil RightsTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsJUNEAU ANIMAL RESCUE: $24,000 · AnimalsWYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · AnimalsANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC: $17,000 · AnimalsESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 · AnimalsWILD SALMON CENTER: $10,000 · AnimalsDefenders of Wildlife: $5,000 · AnimalsTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $55,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $30,000 · International
Other$1,249,000Environment$686,500Human Services$145,000Health$137,000Civil Rights$135,000Animals$86,000International$85,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIO GRANDE RETURN: $135,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND: $85,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetBORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK: $75,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $57,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Mesa Trust inc: $55,000 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSan Juan Citizens Alliance: $55,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHINK NEW MEXICO: $50,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetAWARE Inc: $50,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSTAND: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTIDELINES INSTITUTE: $47,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetALASKA DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTEWA WOMEN UNITED: $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC: $40,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $37,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $35,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOLD FUTURES NM: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $30,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOLACE SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES: $30,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHOPEWORKS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetECOFLIGHT: $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJUNEAU ANIMAL RESCUE: $24,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHermits Peak Watershed Alliance: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTRAIL MIX INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Land Institute: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian Healthcare Foundation: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAlaska Heat Smart: $16,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDurango Nature Studies: $15,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budget350ORG: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE OUR BOSQUE TASK FORCE: $15,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTree New Mexico Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetALASKA MARINE COMMUNITY COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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 RIO GRANDE RETURN ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds Black Mesa Trust inc ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds San Juan Citizens Alliance ↗
  • Who funds THINK NEW MEXICO ↗
  • Who funds AWARE Inc ↗
  • Who funds STAND ↗
  • Who funds TIDELINES INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TEWA WOMEN UNITED ↗
  • Who funds GRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNEAU COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds BOLD FUTURES NM ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY ↗
  • Who funds RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds SOLACE SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWORKS ↗
  • Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ECOFLIGHT ↗

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.

Santa Fe Community Fo…Carroll Petrie Founda…Rasmuson FoundationPatagoniaorgMarshall L and Perrin…Resources Legacy FundJuneau Community Foun…National Forest Found…The Alaska Community …The Pew Charitable Tr…Nusenda FoundationBrindle Foundation
Santa Fe Community FoundationNM38.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Carroll Petrie Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Resources Legacy Fund · Juneau Community Foundation · National Forest Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Nusenda Foundation · Brindle Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization S B Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from S B Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to S B Foundation?

Find your warmest path to S B Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 122 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home