· Private foundation
The Cardinal 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| UNM LOBO CLUB | $2,000 |
| RIO GRANDE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $750 |
| PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS | $500 |
| ARCA | $500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW MEXICO | $500 |
| ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $500 |
| JOY JUNCTION | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION | $300 |
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 (FY19–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
27 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- ULUNM LOBO CLUB8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +94%
- AMALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCORPORATED7× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +77%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW MEXICO INC5× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +45%
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +52%
- BSBOY SCOUTS TROOP 409one grant, 2017 · $800
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 alumni association is a vital partner in the continued excellence of the university of new mexico through the significant engagement of alumni. the alumni association's mission is to serve as a bridge between alumni and the university…
Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Presbyterian exists to ensure all of the patients, members and communities we serve can achieve their best health.
Create powerful engagements and partnerships that lead to increased philanthropy, investment, innovation, and support for the university of new mexico.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Our mission is to inspire excellence in education and learning in northern new mexico through innovative programming, collaboration and advocacy.
Roseman university of health sciences advances the health and wellness of the communities we serve by educating current and future generations of health professionals, conducting research and providing patient care. we actively pursue…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Albuquerque academy is a non-denominational, coeducational, independent day school.
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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.
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 46 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 38 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 UNM LOBO CLUB ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW MEXICO INC ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds Rio Grande Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARCA ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT STEP MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CUIDANDO LOS NIOS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S GRIEF CENTER OF NM ↗
- Who funds Rehoboth Christian School Assoc ↗
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 · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · King-Carpenter Foundation · Merrion Family Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · JF Maddox Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Cardinal 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.
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.