· Private foundation
The Frost Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $595k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $404k
- $250k+1 grant · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ESPANOLA HUMANE | $260,000 |
| LABORATORIES FOUNDATION | $144,000 |
| ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| TIBETAN ASSOC OF SANTA FE | $60,000 |
| BLUE SKYE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN CNT | $50,000 |
| KINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $26,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $25,000 |
| THE FOOD DEPOT | $21,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR ARTS | $20,000 |
| EDEN HOUSE | $20,000 |
| PAWS AND STRIPES | $17,000 |
| ST ELIZABETH SHELTER | $16,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $411k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
99 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 30 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k 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
- SVST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +55% · 54% of their budget
- EVESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY7× · 2018–2024 · $479k · revenue +337%
- GUGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC6× · 2017–2022 · $295k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- BCBERNAL COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $100k
- TMTHE MAY CENTERone grant, 2018 · $50k
- TMTHE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNINGgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +66%
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.
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,…
Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.
The santa fe botanical garden celebrates, cultivates and conserves the rich botanical heritage and biodiversity of our region. in partnership with nature, we demonstrate our commitment through education, science, conservation, community…
The casa program is a community-based program that recruits, trains and supports citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in courtrooms and communities. the organization serves children in…
To support animals, save lives, and spread compassion.
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is integral to human development and education. Through reliable developmental relationships, young people learn who they are and imagine who they might become as healthy, contributing adults in their…
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico
To protect new mexico's water and acequias, grow healthy food for local families and communities, and to honor new mexico's cultural heritage.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Fe Playhouse and the most unlike its peers is Dlk Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
149 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. 149 of the 239 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC ↗
- Who funds KINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds THINK NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds EDEN CENTERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TIBETAN ASSOCIATION OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds TOMORROW'S WOMEN ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMBUDO VALLEY TUTORING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL STUDY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds BLUE SKY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT PERSONAL SAFETY ↗
- Who funds SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO NEWS ↗
- Who funds CHIMP HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE SKYE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Frost 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.
- Champlain College Incorporated — 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.