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Some Serious Business
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 |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,390 |
| Individual grant recipient | $234 |
| Wegrowecoorg | $53 |
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 (FY21–21, $103) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Some Serious Business’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- NYNORTHERN YOUTH PROJECT6× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +60%
- TOThe Operating System Inc2× · 2020–2023 · $600 · revenue +28%
- NMNEW MEXICO FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS5× · 2017–2024 · $408 · revenue +98%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
As part of the network of national chapters, the new mexico committee of the national museum of women in the arts enhances the mission of the national museum of women in the arts bringing recognition to the achievements of women artists by…
Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.
To cultivate enriching experiences for children and youth beyond the school day. vision: all children and youth in new mexico have access to high quality out-of-school time (ost) opportunities regardless of zip code and income. the new…
The new mexico humanities council (nmhc) supports and conducts innovative and imaginative programs throughout the state that lead to a greater understanding of, and motivate interest in, the richness of our human experience and heritage.…
Bold futures nm leads policy change, research, place-based organizing, and culture shift by and for women and people of color in new mexico. bold futures nm centers the lived experiences and expertise of those most impacted by an issue,…
To protect new mexico's water and acequias, grow healthy food for local families and communities, and to honor new mexico's cultural heritage.
To increase access to justice by supporting and expanding free civil legal services for low-income new mexicans. for 35 years, equal access to justice has been providing unrestricted, noncompetitive funds to legal aid organizations who…
New mexico community capital's mission is to give rise to a more equitable future by providing culturally appropriate tools for success to emerging native american owned businesses, native families, and tribal enterprises. we provide…
Aclu-nm is the state affiliate of the aclu, the nation's premier civil rights and civil liberties organization. the purpose of aclu-nm is to protect and advance justice, liberty and equity as guaranteed by the constitutions of new mexico…
Aclu of nm foundation is the state affiliate of alcu, the nation's premier civil rights and civil liberties organization. our purpose is to protect and advance justice, liberty, and equity.
Gender equity in media access, representation, employment and ownership and a world in which a just media is considered essential to a just society. women, action & the media (wam) connects and supports media makers, activists, academics…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Operating System Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 49 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 NORTHERN YOUTH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Operating System Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PUEBLO DE ABIQUIU LIBRARY AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds TEWA WOMEN UNITED ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
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 · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · New Mexico Community Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Some Serious Business 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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