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The Simon Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE AND CAREER PLAZA | $5,000 |
| THINK NEW MEXICO | $5,000 |
| UNITED WORLD COLLEGE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +81% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- YYOUTHWORKS7× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +96%
- TNTHINK NEW MEXICO8× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +255%
THE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER7× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- HSHIGH SCHOOL STIPENDS - VARIOUSone grant, 2017 · $19k
- HSHIGH SCHOOL COMPUTERS - VARIOUSone grant, 2017 · $14k
- SESouthwest Educational Partners for Traininggraduatedone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +387%
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.
The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico serves as a community resource, connects donors to needs, and supports charitable organizations in their work.
The partnership empowers students with quality educational programs, resources and counseling that will make them confident, knowledgeable and help them finish college and contribute to san antonio's future, making the students san…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The greater albuquerque chamber of commerce works every day to make our community a place where businesses can grow and prosper, where people want to raise their families and where tourists want to visit. as the voice of business since…
To improve the health of people living in the culturally diverse communities of northern new mexico through access to the highest quality health care, education, research and advocacy.
To build, invest and manage endowment funds to enhance the quality of new mexico through informed, strategic grantmaking.
Cvnm education fund is a statewide, nonpartisan nonprofit committed to engaging the people of new mexico in our long-standing shared values of protecting our air, land, water, and the health of our communities. we do this by mobilizing…
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,…
To promote a diverse and balanced economy by developing emerging businesses in an effort to provide future income opportunities for santa feans.
Santa fe preparatory school is an independent co-educational college preparatory day school, grades 7 through 12, dedictaed to educational excellence.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southwest Educational Partners for Training. 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 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTHWORKS ↗
- Who funds THINK NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds STREET FOOD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE AND CAREER PLAZA ↗
- Who funds Southwest Educational Partners for Training ↗
- Who funds READING QUEST ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds THREE SISTERS KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITY WORKS ↗
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 · Thornburg Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · New Mexico Community Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation · Center for Educational Initiatives · Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Inc · New Mexico Fund for Women and Girls
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 Simon Charitable 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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