· Public charity
Sacramento Mountains Foundation Inc
The sacramento mountains foundation is dedicated to enhancing the well-being and quality of life for the residents of otero county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $349,562 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $408,324 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $58,762 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $99,491 |
| ALAMOGORDO PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $42,261 |
| MAINGATE | $41,559 |
| THE COUNSELING CENTER | $28,680 |
| NEW MEXICO STATE FAIR | $24,570 |
| KIDS INC | $20,000 |
| FLICKINGER CENTER | $20,000 |
| JORNADA RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $19,017 |
| THE BASE OTERO | $15,500 |
| OTERO COUNTY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION | $13,500 |
| RUNNERS REFUGE | $9,035 |
| FIRST ROBOTICS NEW MEXICO INC | $8,449 |
| NEW MEXICO RAILS TO TRAILS | $7,500 |
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 (FY24–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
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.
A regional Chamber committed to improving the quality of community life driven by business leadership mentorship advocacy and prosperity.
The center is fully operational treatment facility involving child victims of physical and sexual abuse. Children affected by abuse were provided with therapy and professional guidance through the legal and counseling system which the…
The Center is a single point of entry for people from Otero Bent and Crowley counties with general and emergency needs to find the resources and services available to help them.
Work with law enforcement to document abuse of children and to provide counseling services for those abused children and their parents. over 280 children received services in 2023.
Recreation youth development
Christain Home
Mission: help people affected by domestic violence, sexual violence and other forms of abuse, in otero and lincoln counties, new mexico by providing a comprehensive array of direct services, including crisis intervention, shelter,…
To advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…
Search and rescue of migrants stranded in the dessert providing first aid and water for their survival and guidance for safe arrival
The new mexico housing and community development corporation is successfully promoting the availability and quality of affordable housing for moderate and low income families throughout new mexico through the means of property…
Provide a safe haven (shelter) for persons who have experienced physical, sexual, psychological violence or a combination thereof, color,or sexual orientation without prejudice regarding age, ethnicity,creed,gender or nationalty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters Donation Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kids Inc Child Advocacy Center. 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 13 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 OTERO COUNTY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS DONATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMOGORDO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS INC CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FLICKINGER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds JORNADA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OTERO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RUNNERS REFUGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds New Mexico Rails to Trails Association ↗
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: Otero County Hospital Association · 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 Sacramento Mountains Foundation Inc 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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