New Mexico · Private foundation
The Frost Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 69
- Grants FY2024
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $260,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 73
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $34M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations The Frost Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $277k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 69 | $1.3M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $940k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $830k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $1.2M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 58 | $1.3M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $1.6M | 42% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $1.6M | 48% |
| FY2017 | 73 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Vincent Hospital Foundation | $1,866,668 | 6 | 54% |
| New Mexico School for the Arts - Arts Institute | $525,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Espanola Valley Humane Society | $479,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Growing Up New Mexicoinc | $295,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Kindred Spirits Animal Sanctuary | $161,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Think New Mexico | $155,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Eden Centers | $125,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Community Renewal International Inc | $111,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Saint Elizabeth Shelter Corporation | $106,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Bernal Community Center | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 154 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Frost Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 139 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Nusenda Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Brindle Foundation · Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · St Vincent Hospital
How this is measured
About The Frost Foundation
- How much does The Frost Foundation give?
- The Frost Foundation reported 69 grants totaling $1,326,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 73 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Frost Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (23%), Education (18%), Animals (10%).
- Who are The Frost Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Vincent Hospital Foundation ($1.9M), New Mexico School for the Arts - Arts Institute ($525k), Espanola Valley Humane Society ($479k).
- Does The Frost Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Frost Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Frost Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc, Albuquerque Community Foundation.
- Where is The Frost Foundation based?
- The Frost Foundation is based in NM.
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