New Mexico · Private foundation
The James N Cost 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.
- $22k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 11
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $184k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The James N Cost Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $22k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $23k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $21k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $25k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $23k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $274k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth Companions Community Center | $16,450 | 4 | 2% |
| La Familia Medical Center | $15,121 | 5 | 0% |
| Hekab Be Biblioteca Inc | $11,000 | 5 | 5% |
| The Food Depot | $9,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the World Food Program Inc | $9,450 | 3 | 0% |
| Many Mothers Inc | $5,250 | 2 | 1% |
| Rape Crisis Center of Central New Mexico | $4,792 | 2 | 0% |
| Access Reproductive Justice | $4,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Tewa Women United | $2,542 | 1 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth Companions Community Center | $16,450 | 4 | 2% |
| La Familia Medical Center | $15,121 | 5 | 0% |
| Hekab Be Biblioteca Inc | $11,000 | 5 | 5% |
| The Food Depot | $9,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the World Food Program Inc | $9,450 | 3 | 0% |
| Many Mothers Inc | $5,250 | 2 | 1% |
| Rape Crisis Center of Central New Mexico | $4,792 | 2 | 0% |
| Access Reproductive Justice | $4,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Tewa Women United | $2,542 | 1 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society Inc | $2,271 | 1 | 0% |
| Pine Ridge Girls School Inc | $2,271 | 1 | 0% |
| Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women | $2,271 | 1 | 0% |
| Growing Up New Mexicoinc | $1,900 | 1 | 0% |
| Youth Shelters & Family Services Inc | $1,900 | 1 | 0% |
| Reunity Resources | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| The Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($294k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The James N Cost Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · Hanuman Foundation · Brindle Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation Inc · New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Novo Foundation
How this is measured
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About The James N Cost Foundation
- How much does The James N Cost Foundation give?
- The James N Cost Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $22,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The James N Cost Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (76%), Health (10%), Food & Nutrition (5%).
- Who are The James N Cost Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Birth Companions Community Center ($16k), La Familia Medical Center ($15k), Hekab Be Biblioteca Inc ($11k).
- Does The James N Cost Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The James N Cost Foundation 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 James N Cost Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, Hanuman Foundation, Brindle Foundation.
- Where is The James N Cost Foundation based?
- The James N Cost Foundation is based in NM.
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