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Slf Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $268k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN'S COLLEGE | $210,000 |
| KIDS EXCEL EL PASO | $57,500 |
| RIO GRANDE SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHALOM | $18,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| TOM LEA INSTITUTE | $10,500 |
| TEMPLE MOUNT SINAI | $10,000 |
| CENTER FUND FOR ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| ISRAEL POLICY FORUM | $10,000 |
| GULL ISLAND INSTITUTE | $7,500 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATER | $4,000 |
| EPHS CLASS OF 1962 | $3,700 |
| EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN CANCER FUND OF NM | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SJST JOHN'S COLLEGE2× · 2022–2023 · $328k · revenue +18%
- KEKIDS EXCEL EL PASO INC5× · 2020–2024 · $309k · revenue +10%
- SFSCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH2× · 2022–2023 · $270k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- TNThe New Schoolone grant, 2022 · $270k · revenue +1%
- EPEL PASO MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2023 · $38k
- MAMD ANDERSON CENTERone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Between 2024 and 2025, the committee on freedom of the press and information, together with its subcommittees on impunity and chapultepecsalta, participated in approximately nine activities. these included a panel discussion entitled…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Council of the americas is a business organization whose members share a common commitment to economic and social development, open markets, the rule of law, and democracy throughout the americas. the council's membership consists of…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Dance Institute Nm Inc 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
69 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. 69 of the 152 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 ST JOHN'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KIDS EXCEL EL PASO INC ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TOM LEA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMP Concerts ↗
- Who funds EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD ↗
- Who funds AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds GULL ISLAND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Feinberg Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Thornburg Foundation · Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation · Enterprise Bank & Trust Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Slf 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- St John's College — 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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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