· Private foundation
Slf Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k58 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $328k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN'S COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $64,750 |
| KIDS EXCEL EL PASO | $63,500 |
| MD ANDERSON CENTER | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,300 |
| ISRAEL POLICY FORUM | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TOM LEA INSTITUTE | $8,000 |
| PASO DEL NORTE FNDN | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATER | $4,000 |
| SANTA FE INTL LITERARY FESTIVAL | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
68 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KEKIDS EXCEL EL PASO INC6× · 2020–2025 · $373k · revenue +10%
- SJST JOHN'S COLLEGE3× · 2022–2025 · $329k · revenue +18%
- 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
- LCLE COLLECTIF L'ENGRENAGE INCone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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.
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To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
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How this is measured
80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 178 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 KIDS EXCEL EL PASO INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds TOM LEA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds AMP Concerts ↗
- Who funds EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Slf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Slf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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