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The Bingaman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$256k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$386kInternational$297kArts & Culture$215kPhilanthropy$115kHuman Services$80kCrime & Legal$70kAnimals$15kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $136k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIO GRANDE SCHOOL$50,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$50,000
OMAHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$21,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$20,000
LEGAL OUTREACH INC$20,000
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL$20,000
MALARIA CONSORTIUM US$10,000
SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL$10,000
NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NEW MEXICO INC$10,000
RIO GRANDE SCHOOL$5,000
BULL TERRIER RESCUE MISSION INC$5,000
THINK NEW MEXICO$5,000
EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOLDEN STATE OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 14%THINK NEW MEXICO: $5k → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $5k → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $5k → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $5k → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $5k → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $5k → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $5k → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $5k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
NE
MD
NM
NC
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$913k · 20 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
12

Total granted

$913k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+42%

Still filing today

85%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • WN
    WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND
    6× · 2017–2024 · $152k · revenue ×21
  • ND
    NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +43%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADOgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +157%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +154%
  • GS
    Golden State Opportunitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +341%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Leadership New Mexico

Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.

Arts & Culture
2
New Mexico Voices for Children

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…

Civil Rights
3
Northern New Mexicans Protecting Land Water and Rights Inc

Northern new mexicans protecting land water and rights strives to lessen the stress of neighborhood tensions due to lack of information and fair representation. by providing an organization whose main goal is to unite and empower the…

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4
New Mexico Perinatal Collaborative

The mission of the new mexico perinatal collaborative is to convene stakeholders to achieve health equity through the promotion of evidence- based reproductive and perinatal health practices that: increase collaboration with communities…

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5
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
6
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
7
Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation

Our mission is to inspire excellence in education and learning in northern new mexico through innovative programming, collaboration and advocacy.

Education
8
Future Focused Education

Future focused education's mission is to co-create systems of equity to sustain healthier and more prosperous communities for those who need it the most. we envision schools as sites of innovation and opportunity, where young people become…

Education
9
New Mexico Community Development Loan Fund Inc

See schedule othe loan fund was formed to encourage and facilitate the investment of capital in low-income new mexico communities through individuals, religious and community organizations, foundations, government entities, lending…

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10
Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce

The greater albuquerque chamber of commerce works every day to make our community a place where businesses can grow and prosper, where people want to raise their families and where tourists want to visit. as the voice of business since…

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11
Latino Media Collaborative

Latino Media Collaborative's mission is to leverage the power of Latino and community news media to impact policy, change narratives, and promote civic engagement, while also supporting advancement of the sector through capacity building,…

Arts & Culture
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Dance Institute Nm Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bull Terrier Rescue Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-8 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsEducation Equity LeadershipAnimal Rescue and AdoptionFood Pantries & AssistanceDevelopmental Disabilities …Elementary Literacy TutoringCommunity Arts OrganizationsProfessional Ballet Compani…Public University Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,531

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
26/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND — $152,000 · EducationWESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSIT…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $100,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Har…READING QUEST — $25,000 · EducationREADING QUESTCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO — $10,000 · EducationSigma Chi Foundation — $10,000 · EducationLEGAL OUTREACH INC — $70,000 · OtherLEGAL OUTREACH INCTHE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL — $68,500 · OtherTHE RIO GRANDE SCHOOLMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT — $35,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES…SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL — $20,000 · OtherSIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOLLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO — $15,000 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES…BREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATI — $10,000 · OtherUKRAINIAN NAT'L WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 · OtherBULL TERRIER RESCUE MISSION — $15,000 · OtherBULL TERRIER RESCUE MISS…NETWORK FOR GOOD — $10,000 · Other+3 more — $11,380 · OtherNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC — $110,750 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL DANCE …EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureEL RANCHO DE LA…SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $7,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $7,000 · Arts & CultureOmaha Community Foundation — $50,000 · PhilanthropyOmaha Communit…LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $50,000 · PhilanthropyLENSIC PERFORM…SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $45,400 · PhilanthropySANTA FE COMMU…GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyGROWING UP NEW…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $70,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SAN…HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $60,000 · InternationalHELEN KELLER…+1 more — $2,000 · InternationalThe Against Malaria Foundation — $65,000 · HealthThe Against…MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC — $55,000 · HealthMALARIA CON…+1 more — $1,500 · HealthTHINK NEW MEXICO — $40,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES — $15,000 · Human ServicesGolden State Opportunity — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human Services
Education$297,000Other$264,880Arts & Culture$165,250Philanthropy$155,400International$132,000Health$121,500Human Services$66,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND — $152,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC — $110,750 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL OUTREACH INC — $70,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL — $68,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation — $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOmaha Community Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $45,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHINK NEW MEXICO — $40,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetEL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS INC — $40,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetREADING QUEST — $25,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBULL TERRIER RESCUE MISSION — $15,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolden State Opportunity — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUKRAINIAN NAT'L WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSigma Chi Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO APPLESEED — $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROSPERITY WORKS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOMINICAN REPUBLIC EDUCATION AND MENTORING PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN SANTA FE BALLET — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC — $1,380 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Santa Fe Community Fo…Thornburg FoundationNancy Ann Mellen Foun…Pnm Tnmp FoundationAlbuquerque Community…Gale Family FoundationAnchorum St VincentNusenda FoundationBolene Charitable Tru…Slf FoundationBrindle FoundationLos Alamos National L…
Santa Fe Community FoundationNM33.9× affinity14 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 · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Nusenda Foundation · Bolene Charitable Trust · Slf Foundation · Brindle Foundation · Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation

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 The Bingaman Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring Project Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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