· Private foundation
The Sulica Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD DEPOTTHE | $15,000 |
| TOMORROW'S WOMEN | $7,000 |
| AXLE PROJECTS | $6,000 |
| LA FAMILIA HEALTH | $5,000 |
| SANTA FE JEWISH CENTER CHABAD | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN SOC FOR PROTECT OF NATURE IN ISRAEL | $2,000 |
| RACHEL LYON FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE | $1,500 |
| READING QUEST CENTER | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
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, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +68% since the first grant, against +66% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- RHROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $68k · revenue +68%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $55k · revenue +10%
- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +78%
- TETHRIVE EAST OF THE RIVERone grant, 2020 · $4k
- HKHORTON'S KIDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +66%
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.
Northern new mexicans protecting land water and rights strives to lessen the stress of neighborhood tensions due to lack of information and fair representation. by providing an organization whose main goal is to unite and empower the…
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
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,…
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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 International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 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. 40 of the 59 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 ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR THE AGING INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOMWAHAT AL-SALAM INC ↗
- Who funds TOMORROW'S WOMEN ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds WILDEARTH GUARDIANS ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds SITE SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Amigos Bravos Inc ↗
- Who funds Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE CAMPS FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GERARD'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds REEL FATHERS LTD ↗
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 · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Gale Family Foundation · Harris Finch Foundation % Walter Brodie Burwell Jr · Bolene Charitable Trust · Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation Inc · The Abeles Foundation
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 Sulica Fund 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.
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Arts for the Aging Inc — 2% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% 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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