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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.

$408k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$99k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$1.5MYouth Development$115kArts & Culture$52kEducation$51kCommunity Improvement$42kCrime & Legal$20kEnvironment$19kReligion$9k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $349,562, the rows itemized in this filing. The $408,324 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $58,762 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $99k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$269M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $99k → 20%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.
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 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
Otero County Economic Development Council
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2
Rio Rancho Chamber of Commerce

A regional Chamber committed to improving the quality of community life driven by business leadership mentorship advocacy and prosperity.

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3
Childrens Advocacy Center of Laredo-Web

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…

Health
4
Tri-County Family Care Center Inc

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.

Human Services
5
Gonzales Regional Children's Advocacy Center Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
6
Boys & Girls Club of Las Cruces

Recreation youth development

Youth Development
7
Christian Home of Pecos

Christain Home

Crime & Legal
8
Center of Protective Environment Inc

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,…

Human Services
9
Guadalupe County Children's Advocacy Center

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…

Crime & Legal
10
Armadillos Search and Rescue O

Search and rescue of migrants stranded in the dessert providing first aid and water for their survival and guidance for safe arrival

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11
New Mexico Housing & Community Development Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
Crisis Center of Northern New Mexico

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters Donation Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OTERO COUNTY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $1,513,500 · HealthOTERO COUNTY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION+1 more: $28,680 · HealthALAMOGORDO PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $42,261 · OtherALAMOGORD…ALAMOGORDO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $41,559 · OtherALAMOGORD…TARRANT COUNTY JR LIVESTOCK SHOW: $24,570 · OtherTARRANT C…FLICKINGER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $20,000 · OtherFLICKINGE…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OTERO COUNTY: $15,500 · OtherBOYS AND …FIRST ROBOTICS NEW MEXICO INC: $8,449 · OtherFIRST ROB…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS DONATION CENTER INC: $99,491 · Human ServicesKIDS INC CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $20,000 · Crime & LegalJORNADA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $19,017 · EnvironmentRUNNERS REFUGE MINISTRIES: $9,035 · ReligionNew Mexico Rails to Trails Association: $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Health$1,542,180Other$152,339Human Services$99,491Crime & Legal$20,000Environment$19,017Religion$9,035Arts & Culture$7,500

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 budgetOTERO COUNTY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $1,513,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS DONATION CENTER INC: $99,491 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetALAMOGORDO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $41,559 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE COUNSELING CENTER INC: $28,680 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKIDS INC CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetFLICKINGER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetJORNADA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $19,017 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetNew Mexico Rails to Trails Association: $7,500 over 1y, 6.9% 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.

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.

Otero County Hospital…Amazonsmile Foundation
Otero County Hospital AssociationNM13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otero County Hospital Association · Amazonsmile 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 Sacramento Mountains Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sacramento Mountains Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Sacramento Mountains Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Sacramento Mountains Foundation Inc 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 13 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 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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