· Private foundation
The Melville Hankins Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2022.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER | $50,000 |
| SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS | $50,000 |
| NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS | $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 |
| KINDRID SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $20,000 |
| PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| THE COMING HOME CONNECTION | $10,000 |
| THE MOUNTAIN CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Melville Hankins Family Foundation Inc’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 70% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA6× · 2017–2022 · $2.1M · revenue +53%
- ADASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST6× · 2017–2022 · $460k · revenue +166%
- SFSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- 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.
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.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Santa fe pro musica brings together outstanding musicians to inspire and educate audiences of all ages through the performance of great music.
Provide educational and residential opportunities for native american children in grades 7-12.
Through a variety of media created by emerging and established artists, the center for contemporary arts of santa fe, inc. (center) presents the arts of our time as vital elements in the cultural dialogue in santa fe and throughout new…
Mission is to promote, present and preserve hispanic arts & culture of nm. showcasing, encourging & supporting participation of hispanics in local arts economy; and presenting creative & cultural richness of our heritage, including arts &…
Santa fe playhouse creates community on stage and off by holding space for unexpected conversations through intriguing and vital programming. we create community by: -connecting artists with audiences through theatre. this includes: new…
The santa fe institute is a transdisciplinary research community that expands the boundaries of scientific understanding. its aim is to discover, comprehend, and communicate the common fundamental principles in complex physical,…
The mission of nif is to preserve and promote flamenco's artistry, history, and culture by presenting the finest flamenco in the world and by educating the american family in this art form while emphasizing the positive influence of art on…
Performance Santa Fe (PSF) was dedicated to support performing arts by bringing world-class performing artists to Santa Fe and provided excellent arts education to the youth in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Santa Fe Opera and the most unlike its peers is Santa Fe High School Choir Booster. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 23 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 THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds THE HORSE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR BOOSTER ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FIRST SERVE-NM INC ↗
- Who funds KINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds COMING HOME CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE MOUNTAIN CENTER INC ↗
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 · The Frost Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Allene & Jerome Lapides Foundation · Jm Lazarus Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Hankins Foundation · Livingry Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · Carroll Petrie Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · The Mark and Suzanne Vollette Cft
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 Melville Hankins Family Foundation Inc 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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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