· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Food Depot | $5,500 |
| Birth Companions Community Center | $5,500 |
| Many Mothers | $3,000 |
| World Food Program USA | $2,750 |
| Hekab Be Biblioteca | $2,750 |
| St Elizabeth Shelters | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- LFLA FAMILIA MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +37%
- HBHEKAB BE BIBLIOTECA INC5× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +156%
THE FOOD DEPOT3× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- ERExpenditure responsibilty grant to The Charles Piper Cost Foundationone grant, 2020 · $255k
- TWTEWA WOMEN UNITEDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +79%
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +8%
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.
Women's resource medical centers of southern nevada (wrmcsn) is a community-based, faith-driven not for profit 501 (c) 3 organization that exists to support pregnant women with medical care and resources to ensure healthy and thriving…
To improve the status, well-being and racial/ethnic equity of new mexicos children, families, and communities in the areas of health, education, and economic security by promoting public policies through credible research and effective…
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
Earth care works to equip our youth and families with the tools we need to secure a healthy, just, and equitable future. we recruit and train grassroots leaders from the ground up we invest in the vision, voices, and power of our…
The mission of the new mexico perinatal collaborative is to convene stakeholders to achieve health equity through the promotion of evidence- based reproductive and perinatal health practices that: increase collaboration with communities…
Project milk mission is at the forefront of a vital mission - reducing infant mortality rates by championing breastfeeding, with a special focus on supporting low-income african american mothers. through comprehensive services spanning the…
To protect animals by creating systemic change resulting in the humane treatment of all animals. we create policies, infrastructure, and services that protect animals and strengthen our communities, and we design and implement humane and…
Since 2020, Free Flow NM has been dedicated to reducing period poverty and stigma around menstruation through seven key programs focused on education and distribution of menstrual supplies. Period poverty means that millions of individuals…
The svila collaborative dba centro savila is a treatment program devoted to the recovery and healing of individuals, families, and communities experiencing emotional and psychological distress. our vision is to create a healthy, engaged,…
Breath of my heart birthplace embodies community wellness and healing to support all families living within the tewa basin, and provides safe and accessible birth and reproductive health services, while seeding the proliferation of…
To improve the health and well being of the community by providing health education and outreach programs as well as grants to non-profit organizations, schools, and government agencies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Shelters & Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Birth Companions Community Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 24 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
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 Birth Companions Community Center ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILIA MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEKAB BE BIBLIOTECA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Many Mothers Inc ↗
- Who funds RAPE CRISIS CENTER OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds TEWA WOMEN UNITED ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN ↗
- Who funds GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds REUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds THE TRANSGENDER RESOURCE CENTER OF 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.
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
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 James N Cost 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.
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.
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