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· Private foundation
THE MELVILLE HANKINS FAMILY
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$1.1M
Granted FY2022
15
Grants
2
Communities
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0171% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2022.
Arts & Culture$3.4MAnimals$690kHuman Services$520kEducation$405kPhilanthropy$180kHealth$25kOther$2.1M
02FY2022 · 15 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k8 grants · $186k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $570k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- SANTA FE OPERA$300,000
- ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET$220,000
- MANDELA INTERNATIONAL MAGNET SCHOOL PTA$140,000
- ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST$60,000
- NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS$50,000
- SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS$50,000
- SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER$50,000
- THE HORSE SHELTER$40,000
- FIRST SERVE NEW MEXICO$30,500
- LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$30,000
- ESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY$25,000
- PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$20,000
- KINDRID SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY$20,000
- THE COMING HOME CONNECTION$10,000
- THE MOUNTAIN CENTER$10,000
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 7%. 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.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of THE MELVILLE HANKINS FAMILY’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in NM; read by stated purpose it is 71% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
THE MELVILLE HANKINS FAMILYlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.2M · 22 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
22
2
Total granted
$7.2M
$185k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+31%
+5%
Still filing today
50%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
AnimalsEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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
- SFSANTA FE OPERA6× · 2017–2022 · $2.1M · revenue +25%
- ADASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST6× · 2017–2022 · $460k · revenue +61%
- SFSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER6× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +21%
Funded once
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $135k · revenue +5%- NMNEW MEXICO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
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New Mexico Ballet Company
To create and promote professional and innovative dance productions for New Mexico audiences while providing the highest caliber of education and training for young artists in the community.
Arts & Culture
2
Santa Fe Concert Association
Performance santa fe (psf) is dedicated to support performing arts by bringing world-class performing artists to santa fe and providing excellent arts education to the youth in the community.
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3
Taos Art Museum
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4
Albuquerque Academy
Albuquerque academy is a non-denominational, coeducational, independent day school.
Education
5
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
6
Denver Center for the Performing Arts
We engage and inspire through the transformative power of live theatre.
Arts & Culture
7
Faculty Physicians & Surgeons of Llusm
The employment of the clinical faculty of Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Faculty Physicians and Surgeons assists in the formation of Christian Physicians educated to serve as generalists and specialists providing competent…
Health
8
Colorado Ballet
Presenting classical ballet & innovative dance that enhances the cultural life of our community.
Arts & Culture
9
Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities
Provide programs and services that connect and strengthen community through the arts.
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10
Tucson Museum of Art
The tucson museum of art and historic block connects art to life through meaningful, engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding.
Arts & Culture
11
San Angelo Civic Ballet
To foster the creativity, self-esteem, and discipline, through dance, while encouraging participants toward joy in their art. to help people reach their full potential in dance. to reduce barriers to invlovement in the art of dance. to…
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12
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
The conservatory offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate musical education.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Fe Mountain Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is President and Fellows of Harvard College. 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
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$3,420,000Other$2,130,500Animals$690,000Human Services$520,000Education$405,000Philanthropy$180,000Health$25,000
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 SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds MANDELA INTERNATIONAL MAGNET SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds THE HORSE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE COMING HOME CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE MOUNTAIN CENTER ↗
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 FoundationNM26.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Allene & Jerome Lapides Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Jm Lazarus Foundation · St Vincent Hospital · The Bessemer Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good
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 MELVILLE HANKINS FAMILY 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 · 0–15%
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: ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 841150857 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 ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Melville Hankins Family?
Find your warmest path to The Melville Hankins Family 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines