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The Foundation for Sustainable Living

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.

$182k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$55,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$5.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations The Foundation for Sustainable Living funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$151k6%
FY202315$53k27%
FY202216$69k25%
FY202114$25k21%
FY202015$23k13%
FY201913$16k46%
FY201813$8k23%
FY201719$11kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$87kCrime & Legal$67kHuman Services$63kEducation$54kPhilanthropy$39kFood & Nutrition$30kHousing & Shelter$24kInternational$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of The Foundation for Sustainable Living by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Joy Junction Inc$60,8008n/a
Central New Mexico Community College Foundation Inc$50,00041%
Barrett Foundation$22,00080%
A New Day Inc$19,50060%
El Ranchito de Los Ninos Inc$15,50071%
Rio Grande Food Project$7,50020%
Think New Mexico$5,30080%
Global Empowerment Mission Inc$5,00010%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central New Mexico Inc$4,00030%
Pnm Tnmp Foundation$2,50041%
Enhance Fund$1,5003n/a
Greater Albuquerque Habitat for Humanity$1,40040%
Realize Impact$1,00020%
Wings For LIFE International$40020%
Dream Tree Project$20010%
Pivotal New Mexico$20010%
Overland Missions Inc$2001n/a
Albuquerque Adult Learning Center ABQ-ALC$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($152k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Foundation for Sustainable Living supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentral New Mexico Community College Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBarrett Foundation: $22,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetA New Day Inc: $19,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEl Ranchito de Los Ninos Inc: $15,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetRio Grande Food Project: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThink New Mexico: $5,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Empowerment Mission Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Central New Mexico Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPnm Tnmp Foundation: $2,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGreater Albuquerque Habitat for Humanity: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRealize Impact: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWings For LIFE International: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDream Tree Project: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPivotal New Mexico: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlbuquerque Adult Learning Center ABQ-ALC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Pnm Tnmp FoundationNM28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Corio Foundation · Arnia Foundation · Akerson Family Foundation · King-Carpenter Foundation · Don & Colletta McMillian 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.

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About The Foundation for Sustainable Living

How much does The Foundation for Sustainable Living give?
The Foundation for Sustainable Living reported 18 grants totaling $181,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Foundation for Sustainable Living fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (22%), Crime & Legal (17%), Human Services (16%).
Who are The Foundation for Sustainable Living's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Joy Junction Inc ($61k), Central New Mexico Community College Foundation Inc ($50k), Barrett Foundation ($22k).
Does The Foundation for Sustainable Living fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Foundation for Sustainable Living accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Foundation for Sustainable Living?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pnm Tnmp Foundation, Albuquerque Community Foundation, Nusenda Foundation.
Where is The Foundation for Sustainable Living based?
The Foundation for Sustainable Living is based in NM.

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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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