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The Estelle H Yates Foundation at a glance

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The Estelle H Yates 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.

$668k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$216k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$7.1MPublic Benefit$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.0MHealth$988kArts & Culture$946kHuman Services$94kRecreation & Sports$51kPublic Safety & Disaster$51kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $602k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Artesia Public Schools$216,000
Artesia Arts Council$102,368
Little Castle Learning & Development Center$100,000
Pregnancy Help Center$68,200
National Dance Institute$65,914
New Mexico School for the Arts$50,000
New Mexico School for the Deaf$30,000
Assurance Home Inc$12,859
Literacy Coalition of the Permian Basin$6,700
Artesia Arts Council$6,000
Roswell Symphony Orchestra Inc$5,000
Creede Reperatory Theatre Inc$4,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $210k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Pregnancy Help Center of Artesia: $69k → 13%Pregnancy Help Center of Artesia: $59k → 13%Pregnancy Help Center of Artesia: $50k → 13%Pregnancy Help Center of Artesia: $31k → 13%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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 16 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
11

Total granted

$11M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-20%

Still filing today

75%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k 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 & CultureHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • LC
    LITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $245k · revenue +16%
  • AG
    ARTESIA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $223k · revenue +78% · 50% of their budget
  • PH
    PREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF ARTESIA
    4× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +53% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • HO
    HAVEN OF HOPE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -90%
  • AG
    ARTESIA GENERAL HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +52%
  • NS
    NM School for the Arts
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
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2
New Mexico Kids Matter Inc

New mexico kids matter inc., serves as a court appointed special advocate to advocate for the best interest of abused, neglected and high-risk children.

Crime & Legal
3
Escuela Del Sol Montessori Inc

To Inspire a Passion for Life-Long Learning.

Education
4
New Mexico Wine & Grape Growers Association

New mexico wine is a non-profit business association dedicated to promoting and protecting the new mexico wine industry and educating our members, and the community, on proper wine production and appreciation.

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5
New Mexico Childrens Foundation

Grants and expenses for programs serving the physical, mental, educational and social needs of children and their families.

Human Services
6
Association of Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists of New Mexico
Science & Tech
7
Site Santa Fe

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

Arts & Culture
8
Rio Grande Trails and Tales
Education
9
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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10
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation
Arts & Culture
11
New Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children

The New Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children (NMAEYC) is a statewide nonprofit dedicated to advancing early childhood education. We support educators, families, and communities through professional development, advocacy,…

Education
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Dance Institute Nm Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pregnancy Help Center of Artesia. 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

20 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. 20 of the 32 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
9/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Artesia Public Schools: $6,592,952 · OtherArtesia Public SchoolsCity of Artesia: $1,865,081 · OtherCity of ArtesiaArtesia Arts Council Inc: $508,396 · Other+15 more: $581,472 · Other+15 moreHAVEN OF HOPE INC: $1,000,000 · Housing & ShelterHAVEN OF …NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: $300,000 · EducationARTESIA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $223,284 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · EducationIMAGINATION LIBRARY OF GRANT COUNTY INC: $46,000 · Education+1 more: $6,700 · EducationLITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $245,000 · Human ServicesPREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF ARTESIA: $209,800 · Human ServicesARTESIA GENERAL HOSPITAL: $300,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital: $25,000 · HealthGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION OF NEW MEXICO: $90,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $65,914 · Arts & CultureCREEDE REPERTORY THEATRE: $9,000 · Arts & CultureRoswell Symphony Orchestra Inc: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$9,547,901Housing & Shelter$1,000,000Education$725,984Human Services$454,800Health$325,000Philanthropy$90,000Arts & Culture$79,914

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAVEN OF HOPE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetArtesia Arts Council Inc: $508,396 over 6y, 83% of budgetNEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: $300,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetARTESIA GENERAL HOSPITAL: $300,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE CASTLE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $245,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetARTESIA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $223,284 over 2y, 50% of budgetPREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF ARTESIA: $209,800 over 4y, 33% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetASSURANCE HOME INC: $93,659 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION OF NEW MEXICO: $90,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $65,914 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAMP MARY WHITE INC: $50,525 over 5y, 24% of budgetIMAGINATION LIBRARY OF GRANT COUNTY INC: $46,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetARTESIA MAINSTREET INC: $28,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREEDE REPERTORY THEATRE: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY COALITION OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $6,700 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRoswell Symphony Orchestra Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

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.

SP & Estelle Yates Fa…Written in Red IncPY FoundationChase Foundation Mack…John a and Charlotte …Tlc Foundation From t…Frank W Yates Jr Fami…Santa Fe Community Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
SP & Estelle Yates Family FoundationNM28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: SP & Estelle Yates Family Foundation · Written in Red Inc · PY Foundation · Chase Foundation Mack C Chase Trustee · John a and Charlotte G Yates Legacy Foundation · Tlc Foundation From the Heart · Frank W Yates Jr Family Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Estelle H Yates Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Estelle H Yates Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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How do I get to The Estelle H Yates Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Estelle H Yates Foundation 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.

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 32 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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