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The Abeles 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.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$164kHealth$63kCommunity Improvement$57kArts & Culture$52kFood & Nutrition$50kPhilanthropy$48kYouth Development$30kHousing & Shelter$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIKE EAST BAY$20,000
UC BERKELEY$10,000
UC BERKELEY SCHOOL FUND$10,000
GOFUNDMEORG$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
LONGFELLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL$5,000
BERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT$5,000
BERKELEY FOOD NETWORK$5,000
WIKIPEDIA$2,500
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS$2,500
NAYSO$1,000
PROPUBLICA$1,000
BIG GIVE UC BERKELEY$650
AMHERST COLLEGE$500
TEXAS LIONS CAMP$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ROSSMOOR FUND: $500 → 9%INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 14%ROSSMOOR FUND: $130 → 9%THINK NEW MEXICO: $1k → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $1k → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $1k → 12%BERKELEY FOOD AND HOUSING PROJECT: $1k → 10%BERKELEY FOOD AND HOUSING PROJECT: $500 → 10%BERKELEY FOOD AND HOUSING PROJECT: $500 → 10%BERKELEY FOOD AND HOUSING PROJECT: $500 → 10%FOOD DEPOT: $10k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $1k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $1k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
NM
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$419k · 88 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +62% for those funded once.

88 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 80 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
52

Total granted

$419k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+62%

Still filing today

73%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BP
    Berkeley Public Schools Fund
    6× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +120%
  • EB
    East Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay
    6× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +70%
  • DA
    Destiny Arts Center
    5× · 2018–2024 · $26k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • IC
    INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +48%
  • SF
    SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CA BERKELEY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund

Cvnm education fund is a statewide, nonpartisan nonprofit committed to engaging the people of new mexico in our long-standing shared values of protecting our air, land, water, and the health of our communities. we do this by mobilizing…

Civil Rights
4
Santa Fe Conservation Trust

The santa fe conservation trust partners with our community to keep northern new mexico's living lands and people flourishing together. we protect culturally and environmentally significant landscapes, ignite people's passion for nature…

Environment
5
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
6
Santa Fe Business Incubator

To promote a diverse and balanced economy by developing emerging businesses in an effort to provide future income opportunities for santa feans.

Community Improvement
7
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
8
Bold Futures Nm

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,…

Human Services
9
University of New Mexico Foundation Inc

Create powerful engagements and partnerships that lead to increased philanthropy, investment, innovation, and support for the university of new mexico.

Education
10
The Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe Inc

Through a variety of media created by emerging and established artists, the center for contemporary arts of santa fe, inc. (center) presents the arts of our time as vital elements in the cultural dialogue in santa fe and throughout new…

Arts & Culture
11
Santa Fe Playhouse

Santa fe playhouse creates community on stage and off by holding space for unexpected conversations through intriguing and vital programming. we create community by: -connecting artists with audiences through theatre. this includes: new…

Arts & Culture
12
Santa Fe Watershed Association

To build a thriving, resilient santa fe river watershed through collaboration, stewardship, and education that inspires us all to care for our land, water, and each other.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Fe Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Camp Nebagamon Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

87 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. 87 of the 153 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/87
Grantees still filing
74/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

East Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay: $51,500 · OtherEast Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East BayLONGFELLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherLONGFELLOW MIDDLE SCHOOLUC BERKELEY: $20,000 · OtherUC BERKELEYLA FAMILIA MEDICAL CENTER: $14,500 · OtherUC BERKELEY SCHOOL FUND: $10,000 · OtherBerkeley Food Network: $15,000 · OtherBerkeley Food Network+96 more: $148,392 · Other+96 moreBerkeley Public Schools Fund: $57,500 · EducationBerkeley Public School…SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $17,500 · EducationSANTA FE COMMUNITY COL…NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: $6,000 · EducationNEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR …Francis W Parker School: $5,600 · EducationFrancis W Parker Schoo…AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $3,900 · Education+13 more: $11,875 · Education+13 moreLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $11,340 · PhilanthropyGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC: $11,000 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORG: $7,500 · PhilanthropySANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,800 · PhilanthropyBerkeley Public Library Foundation: $3,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropySANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $10,680 · Arts & CultureWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS: $1,500 · Arts & CultureRETHINK THE CONVERSATION LTD: $1,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $1,480 · Arts & CultureSANTA FE PRO MUSICA INC: $1,400 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $2,550 · Arts & CultureST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $9,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,750 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $3,000 · HealthPresbyterian Healthcare Foundation: $2,500 · HealthSANTA FE MOUNTAIN CENTER INC: $2,300 · HealthCANCER FOUNDATION FOR NEW MEXICO: $1,250 · HealthTEXAS LIONS CAMP INC: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthDestiny Arts Center: $25,500 · Recreation & SportsFIRST SERVE-NM INC: $1,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $153 · Recreation & SportsTHE FOOD DEPOT: $13,000 · Human ServicesTHINK NEW MEXICO: $3,000 · Human ServicesInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project: $2,500 · Human ServicesINDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCE CENTER: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $630 · Human Services
Other$279,392Education$102,375Philanthropy$38,140Arts & Culture$31,110Health$28,050Recreation & Sports$27,153Human Services$20,130

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBerkeley Public Schools Fund: $57,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetEast Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay: $51,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDestiny Arts Center: $25,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBerkeley Food Network: $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLA FAMILIA MEDICAL CENTER: $14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $12,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $11,340 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $10,680 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $5,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKITCHEN ANGELS INC: $5,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $3,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHANGING WORLDS: $3,205 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $3,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBerkeley Public Library Foundation: $3,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHINK NEW MEXICO: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SANTA FE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHORUS INC: $2,850 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University: $2,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian Healthcare Foundation: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOSS Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE MOUNTAIN CENTER INC: $2,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $2,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $2,050 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTHWORKS: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST SERVE-NM INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCYCLES OF CHANGE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRETHINK THE CONVERSATION LTD: $1,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $1,480 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE PRO MUSICA INC: $1,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION FOR NEW MEXICO: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Fe Music Collective Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 1.7% of budget
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 Berkeley Public Schools Fund ↗
  • Who funds East Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay ↗
  • Who funds Destiny Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Berkeley Food Network ↗
  • Who funds LA FAMILIA MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
  • Who funds SAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds KITCHEN ANGELS INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds CHANGING WORLDS ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds Berkeley Public Library Foundation ↗

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.

Santa Fe Community Fo…Thornburg FoundationNancy Ann Mellen Foun…The Frost FoundationAlbuquerque Community…Gale Family FoundationAnchorum St VincentMarshall L and Perrin…John H Hart FoundationSt Vincent HospitalLannan FoundationPnm Tnmp Foundation
Santa Fe Community FoundationNM74.5× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · John H Hart Foundation · St Vincent Hospital · Lannan Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Abeles Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Abeles Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 153 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-PF 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home