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The Capitol Ford Charitable 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Santa Fe Children's Museum | $15,000 |
| St Vincent Hospital Foundation | $10,000 |
| Lensic Performing Arts | $5,000 |
| Santa Fe Animal Shelter | $5,000 |
| Rotary Club of Santa Fe | $3,500 |
| Cooking With Kids | $2,500 |
| Santa Fe Watershed Association | $1,500 |
| Rotary Club of Santa del Sur | $1,500 |
| Arbor Day Foundation | $1,000 |
| St Michaels High School | $750 |
| Sons of American Legion | $500 |
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 (FY19–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- EVESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2018–2024 · $29k · revenue +337%
THE FOOD DEPOT3× · 2019–2022 · $12k · revenue +51%- NANATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- LPLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +66%
- BGBoys & Girls Clubone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SESAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +105%
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.
The santa fe botanical garden celebrates, cultivates and conserves the rich botanical heritage and biodiversity of our region. in partnership with nature, we demonstrate our commitment through education, science, conservation, community…
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Mission is to promote, present and preserve hispanic arts & culture of nm. showcasing, encourging & supporting participation of hispanics in local arts economy; and presenting creative & cultural richness of our heritage, including arts &…
Santa fe international literary festival (sfilf, or the festival) was incorporated as a nonprofit corporation in new mexico in 2023. the mission of sfilf is to connect writers, readers, and thinkers from around the world and close to home…
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…
Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico
The improvement of santa fe's economy through collaborative creativity in art, crafts, industry, and science.
Santa fe pro musica brings together outstanding musicians to inspire and educate audiences of all ages through the performance of great music.
The santa fe chamber of commerce's mission is to strengthen the local economy and serve as the voice of business in community affairs.
To advocate for farmers, ranchers and other land-based producers; provide equitable access to fresh, local food; own and operate a year-round venue for the santa fe farmers' market; and manage programs to help sustain a profitable,…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Fe Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cooking With Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 39 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 ESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Santa Fe ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COOKING WITH KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOVING ARTS ESPANOLA INCORPORATED ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Livingry Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Brindle Foundation · Jm Lazarus Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · C & I Roybal Charitable Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent
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 Capitol Ford Charitable 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.
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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