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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 FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$87kCrime & Legal$67kHuman Services$63kEducation$54kPhilanthropy$39kFood & Nutrition$30kHousing & Shelter$24kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBUQUERQUE FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER$55,000
UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO$25,000
CNM FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
JOY JUNCTION$7,500
A NEW DAY INC$7,500
FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH FOOD PANTRY$7,500
BARRETT FOUNDATION$7,500
SALVATION ARMY$7,500
ALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$6,000
RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT$6,000
EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS INC$6,000
ALBUQUERQUE CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING$4,000
NATURE NINOS NEW MEXICO$2,500
THINK NEW MEXICO$2,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $2k → 12%ALBUQUERQUE GED INC: $100 → 14%DREAM TREE PROJECT: $200 → 18%OVERLAND MISSIONS: $200 → 10%REALIZE IMPACT: $500 → 10%THINK NEW MEXICO: $1k → 12%REALIZE IMPACT: $500 → 10%THINK NEW MEXICO: $1k → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $500 → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $200 → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $200 → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $200 → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $200 → 12%EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS INC: $6k → 19%EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS INC: $3k → 19%A NEW DAY INC: $8k → 14%EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS INC: $3k → 19%EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS INC: $3k → 19%EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS INC: $1k → 19%EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS INC: $300 → 19%EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS: $100 → 19%A NEW DAY INC: $4k → 14%A NEW DAY INC: $4k → 14%A NEW DAY INC: $3k → 14%A NEW DAY INC: $2k → 14%A NEW DAY INC: $500 → 14%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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$337k · 26 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
15

Total granted

$337k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+163%

Still filing today

42%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther

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

  • CN
    CENTRAL NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +16%
  • BF
    BARRETT FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +212%
  • AN
    A NEW DAY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $20k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • GE
    GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -40%
  • BR
    BAKER RIPLEY HURRICAN HARVEY
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

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
Community Power New Mexico
Community Improvement
2
New Mexico Dream Center of Albuquerque

New mexico dream center's mission is to restore the dreams of the hopeless, the helpless, the hurting and the broken. specifically, albuquerque new mexico has a huge gaping hole in services for homeless youth and trafficked minor children.…

Religion
3
Leadership New Mexico

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

Arts & Culture
4
New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness

To assist communities to create solutions to homelessness from prevention through permanent housing by using action, advocacy, and awareness.

Housing & Shelter
5
Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico

The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico serves as a community resource, connects donors to needs, and supports charitable organizations in their work.

Philanthropy
6
Enlace Comunitario

To work to eliminate domestic violence in the latino immigrant community and to promote healthy families through comprehensive domestic violence intervention services in spanish, preventative community education policy advocacy and…

Community Improvement
7
New Mexico Aids Services Inc

New mexico aids services, inc provides housing, education and nutritional support to the public in response to the aids crisis.

Human Services
8
Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless Inc

To provide caring and comprehensive health and supporting services, linking people experiencing homelessness to individual/collective solutions and to be a leader in creating service delivery models and solutions to homelessness.

Human Services
9
Groundworks New Mexico Kristi Dorr

Groundworks new mexicos mission is to connect, strengthen, and advocate for new mexicos social sector while unleashing its full potential. our core values are racial equity, collaboration, community, and impact. groundworks new mexico…

Education
10
New Mexico Housing & Community Development Corporation

The new mexico housing and community development corporation is successfully promoting the availability and quality of affordable housing for moderate and low income families throughout new mexico through the means of property…

Housing & Shelter
11
New Mexico Foundation for Open Government

To ensure that government is accountable to the voters and taxpayers.

Crime & Legal
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 Albuquerque Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pnm Tnmp Foundation. 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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 44 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALBUQUERQUE FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER — $66,500 · OtherALBUQUERQUE FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTERJOY JUNCTION INC — $60,800 · OtherJOY JUNCTION INCCENTRAL NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherCENTRAL NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCALBUQUERQUE CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING — $25,000 · OtherALBUQUERQUE CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVINGIndividual grant recipient — $12,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMY — $10,000 · Other+23 more — $46,550 · Other+23 moreA NEW DAY INC — $19,500 · Human ServicesA NEW DAY IN…EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS INC — $15,500 · Human ServicesEL RANCHITO …THINK NEW MEXICO — $5,300 · Human ServicesTHINK NEW ME…+4 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO — $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …ALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $14,000 · PhilanthropyALBUQUERQUE…BARRETT FOUNDATION — $22,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $1,400 · Housing & ShelterRIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT — $7,500 · Food & NutritionGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC — $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · InternationalWings For LIFE International — $400 · Health
Other$271,350Human Services$41,800Philanthropy$39,000Housing & Shelter$23,400Food & Nutrition$7,500Public Safety & Disaster$5,000International$5,000Health$400

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 budgetCENTRAL NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetPivotal New Mexico — $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDREAM TREE PROJECT — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlbuquerque Adult Learning Center ABQ-ALC — $100 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.

  • Who funds CENTRAL NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  • Who funds BARRETT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds A NEW DAY INC
  • Who funds EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS INC
  • Who funds ALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT
  • Who funds THINK NEW MEXICO
  • Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC
  • Who funds PNM TNMP FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
  • Who funds Realize Impact
  • Who funds Wings For LIFE International
  • Who funds Pivotal New Mexico

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.

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

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 Foundation for Sustainable Living 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 44 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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