New Mexico · Private foundation
Slf Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $524k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 67
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 72
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Slf Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 64 | $515k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $435k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $674k | 69% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $653k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $265k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $512k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Johns College in Santa Fe | $690,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Kids Excel El Paso Inc | $372,500 | 6 | 10% |
| St John's College | $329,050 | 3 | 0% |
| School for Advanced Research | $270,000 | 2 | 6% |
| The New School | $270,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Dance Institute | $90,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $64,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Tom Lea Institute | $49,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Israel Policy Forum Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Rio Grande School | $32,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 80 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 92 recipients with no EIN on record ($511k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Slf Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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How do I get to Slf Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Slf 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.
About Slf Foundation
- How much does Slf Foundation give?
- Slf Foundation reported 67 grants totaling $524,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 72 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Slf Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Arts & Culture (24%), Social Science (11%).
- Who are Slf Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Johns College in Santa Fe ($691k), Kids Excel El Paso Inc ($373k), St John's College ($329k).
- Does Slf Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Slf Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Slf Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, Feinberg Foundation, Gale Family Foundation.
- Where is Slf Foundation based?
- Slf Foundation is based in NM.
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