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Smith & Watson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHWEST | $6,000 |
| PALMER DRUG ABUSE PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| GRANBURY CHURCH OF CHRIST | $5,000 |
| MY POWER INC | $4,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,000 |
| NEW MEXICO JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SOUTHWEST SYMPHONY | $1,500 |
| WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| LEA COUNTY MUSEUM | $750 |
| ISAIAHS SOUP KITCHEN | $750 |
| LEA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $500 |
| CONQUISTADOR BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $200 |
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 (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MIMYPOWER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +46%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHWEST9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +38%
- NMNEW MEXICO JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +290%
Funded once
- NHNEW HORIZONS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -52%
- SCSACRAMENTO CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +8%
- TSTAYLOR ST CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
To provide leadership, build partnerships and enable the innovation necessary to reestablish local food and energy production, strengthen educational systems and establish placemaking in our communities while promoting northeastern new…
New mexico interfaith housing pursues its charitable purpose through the development, production, and management of high quality affordable housing in stable communities. to provide supportive services at no cost to residents for…
To deliver the highest quality care to sustain the health and well-being of every patient through the variety of healthcare services we provide.
We are the mesilla valley habitat for humanity (an affiliate of habitat for humanity international), serving the greater las cruces are in dona ana county, new mexico. we have given a hand up (rather than a hand out) to 88 new home owners…
The mission of the new mexico rural electric cooperatives (nmrec) is to advance protect and advocate member interests.
To promote the safe and responsible development of oil and gas resources in new mexico through advocacy, collaboration, and education.
Administer grants from various sources for the purpose of identifying, assisting, and eliminating the causes of poverty within northern new mexico.
Increase the quantity and quality of housing in newton, iowa
The mission of southwest creations collaborative is to create dignified living wage jobs for women in new mexico through a sustainable manufacturing social enterprise that engages its employees, customers and the community in building…
To promote excellence in national and international environmental management. the center supports initiatives in protection of human health and the environment while advancing economic development through applied technology.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Albuquerque Habitat for Humanity and the most unlike its peers is New Horizons Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 22 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 MYPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ENCORE ENTERTAINMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH'S SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds LEA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HOBBS NM ↗
- Who funds LEADERS INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER 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: JF Maddox Foundation · The Veteto Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Smith & Watson 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.
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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