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Southwest Organizing Project
The mission of swop is to empower the disenfranchised in the southwest to realize racial and gender equality, and social and economic justice.
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 |
|---|---|
| LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE | $90,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $306k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +132% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LPLA PLAZITA INSTITUTE4× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +125%
- SUSOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO2× · 2017–2018 · $64k · revenue +321%
- ECEL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS2× · 2017–2018 · $63k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY ACTIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $23k · revenue +609%
- TOTHE OLE EDUCATION FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +178%
- SASWOP ACTION FUNDone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
CAFE is a faith based Non Profit community organization with the purpose of training and organizing low and moderate income families to shape public policy.
The casa program is a community-based program that recruits, trains and supports citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in courtrooms and communities. the organization serves children in…
To improve the status, well-being and racial/ethnic equity of new mexicos children, families, and communities in the areas of health, education, and economic security by promoting public policies through credible research and effective…
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,…
El centro poder y accion is an albuquerque-based civil rights and workers' justice organization that advocates for just working conditions and policies that ensure all new mexicans' have the opportunity to thrive. we focus on growing the…
Provide respectful high quality legal advice, counsel, brief services and referral to low-income New Mexicans and help remove barriers to the civil justice system.
To work to eliminate domestic violence in the latino immigrant community and to promote healthy families through comprehensive domestic violence intervention services in spanish, preventative community education policy advocacy and…
Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.
The svila collaborative dba centro savila is a treatment program devoted to the recovery and healing of individuals, families, and communities experiencing emotional and psychological distress. our vision is to create a healthy, engaged,…
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…
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Somos Un Pueblo Unido and the most unlike its peers is Frontline Resurrection. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 20 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 LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS ↗
- Who funds WORKING CLASSROOM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds THE OLE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds Keshet Dance Company ↗
- Who funds Frontline Resurrection ↗
- Who funds YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Pegasus Legal Services for Children ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO REENTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds EARTH CARE INTERNATIONAL EARTH CARE NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER ↗
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: Albuquerque Community Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Santa Fe Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Center for Civic Policy · New Mexico Community Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · La Plazita Institute
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 Southwest Organizing Project 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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