· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +40% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 22 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 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 ↗
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: JF Maddox Foundation · The Veteto Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smith & Watson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smith & Watson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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