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The Jennifer Riordan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$42kYouth Development$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kHealth$12kHuman Services$6kFood & Nutrition$4kHousing & Shelter$500Animals$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN OF LIGHT: $500 → 11%LIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $500 → 19%YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $8k → 14%DVRC INC: $258 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
NM
SC
MS
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52k · 5 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
22

Total granted

$52k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+33%

Still filing today

40%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterEducationAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $26k
  • T8
    Ten 82
    2× · 2021–2022 · $13k · revenue +39%
  • CH
    COLCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $8k

Funded once

  • YD
    YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +43%
  • MA
    MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
  • HS
    HORIZONS STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES AND RESULTS FOR NEW MEXICO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +69%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Food Depot

The food depot fosters healthy communities by engaging a network of partners and developing solutions to create a hunger-free new mexico.

Human Services
2
Cooking With Kids Inc

Cooking with kids educates and empowers children and families to make healthy food choices through hands-on nutrition education with fresh, affordable foods.

Youth Development
3
Alianza of New Mexico

Alianza's mission is to empower hard-to-reach, vulnerable, and underserved populations through education and supportive services aimed at working with everyone we serve to achieve better outcomes and higher quality of life.

Human Services
4
New Mexico Out-of School Time Network

To cultivate enriching experiences for children and youth beyond the school day. vision: all children and youth in new mexico have access to high quality out-of-school time (ost) opportunities regardless of zip code and income. the new…

Education
5
Healthy Nevada
Health
6
Help-New Mexico Inc

Help-new mexico, inc. exists to empower positive action through sustainable social services. inspire and motivate through effective community improvement programs and to educate families and communities through innovative coaching.

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7
Disability Rights New Mexico

To protect, promote, and expand the legal and civil rights of persons with disabilities.

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8
New Mexico Voices for Children

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…

Civil Rights
9
Feed the Hungry San Miguel Inc

Fthsm is a non-governmental organization that raises funds for feed the hungry, a.c. a mexican not-for-profit corporation which provides free meals for the poor of san miguel de allende, gto, mexico.

Food & Nutrition
10
Unica

We empower and support our community by providing trauma-informed comprehensive care across the lifespan.

Human Services
11
La Familia Medical Center

Our mission is to foster community well-being in partnership with our patients by providing excellent, accessible, family-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care. our vision is "healthy lives for all in a healthy santa fe"…

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12
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of New Mexico; the most unlike its peers is Pnm Tnmp Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT INC: $25,975 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT INCCOLCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL: $7,500 · OtherCOLCHESTER HIGH SCHOOLMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $7,000 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONFAMILY OF BENNIE HARGROVE: $4,200 · OtherFAMILY OF BENNIE HARGROVEMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW MEXICO: $3,700 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW MEXICOCOLCHESTER SCHOOL: $2,500 · OtherPNM TNMP FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherPINK WARRIORS INC: $2,053 · Other+2 more: $2,000 · OtherTen 82: $13,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTen 82YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $7,727 · Human ServicesYOUTH DEVEL…RIO GRANDE DOWN SYNDROME NETWORK: $1,000 · Human ServicesRIO GRANDE …Children of Light: $500 · Human ServicesLIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $500 · Human Services+1 more: $258 · Human ServicesHORIZONS STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES AND RESULTS FOR NEW MEXICO INC: $6,000 · EducationAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 · HealthNEW MEXICO FARM AND LIVESTOCK BUREAU FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI CHARTERED: $1,000 · HealthTHE SAVILA COLLABORATIVE: $750 · HealthHitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc: $500 · HealthSTOREHOUSE NEW MEXICO: $1,000 · Food & NutritionMeals on Wheels New Mexico: $1,000 · Food & NutritionROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $500 · Animals
Other$57,428Public Safety & Disaster$13,000Human Services$9,985Education$6,000Health$5,750Food & Nutrition$3,000Philanthropy$500Animals$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTen 82: $13,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $7,727 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES AND RESULTS FOR NEW MEXICO INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW MEXICO: $3,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPNM TNMP FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTOREHOUSE NEW MEXICO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIO GRANDE DOWN SYNDROME NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMeals on Wheels New Mexico: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO FARM AND LIVESTOCK BUREAU FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI CHARTERED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAVILA COLLABORATIVE: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOPEWORKS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHT HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDVRC INC: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Albuquerque Community…Pnm Tnmp FoundationAkerson Family Founda…Arnia FoundationNancy Ann Mellen Foun…Nusenda FoundationCarl C Anderson Sr an…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Albuquerque Community FoundationNM23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albuquerque Community Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Akerson Family Foundation · Arnia Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Jennifer Riordan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jennifer Riordan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 74%
  • Light Health and Wellness Comprehensive Services Inc: 74% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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