· Private foundation
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 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 |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,390 |
| Individual grant recipient | $234 |
| Wegrowecoorg | $53 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Some Serious Business’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 49 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Some Serious Business funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Some Serious Business. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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