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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.

$90k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
78%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$90,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$90,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$4.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 78% of the organizations Southwest Organizing Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsHealthCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$90k0%
FY20249$100k78%
FY20231$6k100%
FY20187$149k29%
FY20179$221kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$178kCrime & Legal$175kYouth Development$75kPhilanthropy$70kEducation$63kHuman Services$33kCommunity Improvement$23kArts & Culture$14kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
La Plazita Institute$174,92644%
Somos Un Pueblo Unido$63,72424%
El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos$62,584210%
Working Classroom Inc$44,7592n/a
New Mexico Asian Family Center$42,99632%
Partnership for Community Action$22,55514%
The Ole Education Fund$22,20512%
Swop Action Fund$19,5001n/a
Partnership for Community Action Inc$17,87410%
Center of Southwest Culture Inc$14,46412%
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All grantees of Southwest Organizing Project by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
La Plazita Institute$174,92644%
Somos Un Pueblo Unido$63,72424%
El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos$62,584210%
Working Classroom Inc$44,7592n/a
New Mexico Asian Family Center$42,99632%
Partnership for Community Action$22,55514%
The Ole Education Fund$22,20512%
Swop Action Fund$19,5001n/a
Partnership for Community Action Inc$17,87410%
Center of Southwest Culture Inc$14,46412%
Keshet Dance Company$10,00010%
Youth Development Inc$10,00010%
Frontline Resurrection$10,00011%
T Net LLC$10,0001n/a
Southwest Organizing Project$10,00011%
New Mexico Reentry Center$10,00011%
Pegasus Legal Services for Children$10,00011%
Earth Care International Earth Care New Mexico$6,00011%
New Mexico Immigrant Law Center$5,0421n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Southwest Organizing Project supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLa Plazita Institute: $174,926 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetSomos Un Pueblo Unido: $63,724 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetEl Centro de Igualdad y Derechos: $62,584 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetNew Mexico Asian Family Center: $42,996 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetPartnership for Community Action: $22,555 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetThe Ole Education Fund: $22,205 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPartnership for Community Action Inc: $17,874 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter of Southwest Culture Inc: $14,464 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKeshet Dance Company: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Development Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrontline Resurrection: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSouthwest Organizing Project: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNew Mexico Reentry Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPegasus Legal Services for Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEarth Care International Earth Care New Mexico: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Albuquerque Community FoundationNM32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Southwest Organizing Project?

Find your warmest path to Southwest Organizing Project through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Southwest Organizing Project

How much does Southwest Organizing Project give?
Southwest Organizing Project reported 1 grants totaling $90,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Southwest Organizing Project fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (28%), Crime & Legal (27%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are Southwest Organizing Project's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: La Plazita Institute ($175k), Somos Un Pueblo Unido ($64k), El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos ($63k).
Does Southwest Organizing Project fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Southwest Organizing Project?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albuquerque Community Foundation, Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc, Santa Fe Community Foundation.
Where is Southwest Organizing Project based?
Southwest Organizing Project is based in NM.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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