How much did The James N Cost Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of The James N Cost Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

santa

2021

womencrisissanta

2022

crisis

2023

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2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,500

Median grant

States reached

$443k

Total assets

Largest grants

World Food Program USA$4,500
Birth Companions Community Center$4,500
La Familia Medical Center$4,500
Planned Parenthood of New Mexico$4,500
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center$2,250
Many Mothers$2,250

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$83k · 9 repeat orgs$282k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$83k

$280k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+93%

Still filing today

56%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalAnimalsInternationalOther

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

LF
La Familia Medical Center
5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +27%
HB
Hekab Be Biblioteca
4× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +597%
RC
Rape Crisis Center of Central New Mexico
2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +94%

Funded once

ER
Expenditure responsibilty grant to The Charles Piper Cost Foundation
one grant, 2020 · $255k
TW
Tewa Women Unitedgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +46%
Direct Reliefgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +93%

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.

New Mexico Child Advocacy Networks

Nmcan partners with young people to build community, promote equity and lead change.

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Thrive in Southern New Mexico

Funding to local impact partners as part of the organization's multi-year community plan focused on achieving outcomes in the four specific areas determined to be essential in improving people's lives and strengthening our community: 1)…

Philanthropy

Womens Resource Medical Centers

Women's resource medical centers of southern nevada exists to save the lives of unborn children by sharing the love of jesus christ through spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational support to our clients.

Health

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

Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide

Philanthropy

New Mexico Voices for Children

To improve the status, well-being and racial/ethnic equity of new mexico's children, families, and communities in the areas of health, education, and economic security by promoting public policies through credible research and effective…

Civil Rights

New Mexico Perinatal Collaborative

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…

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Felines & Friends New Mexico

Felines & friends is a "second chance" rescue and placement organization focusing on providing vet care and socialization for cats and kittens who might not otherwise find homes through animal shelters. since 2002, we have placed over…

Animals

Santa Fe Birth Center

Santa fe birth center's mission is to increase good outcomes and positive birth experiences by expanding place-of-birth choices. santa fe birth center is a non profit 501c3 organization providing a vital choice for the transformative…

Health

Unm Rainforest Innovations

Supporting the university of new mexico as the source of innovation management, patent prosecution and licensing of technologies developed at the university of new mexico.

Education

La Casa Inc

Provide emergency shelter care for adult persons and their children who are victims of domestic violence, and educate the community about the problems related to domestic violence is all its forms.

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Doula Co-Op of Reno

To cultivate diverse comunity of doulas

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Familia Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Direct Relief. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/15

Grantees still filing

14/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$320,069Human Services$24,663Education$8,250Crime & Legal$4,792International$2,500Animals$2,271Philanthropy$1,900Environment$1,200

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.

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.

Santa Fe Community FoundationNM24.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Brindle Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson · New Mexico Coalition of Sexual · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Hekab Be Biblioteca.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 7.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 262750810 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Hekab Be Biblioteca, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The James N Cost Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The James N Cost Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The James N Cost Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The James N Cost Foundation?

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The James N Cost Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The James N Cost Foundation?

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