How much does The Sulica Fund Inc give?

The Sulica Fund Inc reported 33 grants totaling $123,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Sulica Fund Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (24%), Arts & Culture (22%), Environment (15%).

Who are The Sulica Fund Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Round House Theatre Inc ($68k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($55k), Capital Area Food Bank Inc ($55k).

Does The Sulica Fund Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Sulica Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Sulica Fund Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, The Frost Foundation, Albuquerque Community Foundation.

Where is The Sulica Fund Inc based?

The Sulica Fund Inc is based in NM.

The Sulica Fund Inc

The Sulica Fund Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Sulica Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$123k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$10k

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

96% of The Sulica Fund Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Sulica Fund Inc named its own grantees at scale: 28 organizations, $123k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$315kArts & Culture$298kEnvironment$193kHealth$91kReligion$80kInternational$74kCivil Rights$73kEducation$52kOther$0

02FY2023 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k31 grants · $103k
$10k–50k2 grants · $20k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK	$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC	$7,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS NEVE SHALOMWAHAT AL-SALAAM	$7,000
ROUND HOUSE THEATRE	$5,000
CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES	$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS	$5,000
FOOD DEPOTTHE	$5,000
FOOD AND FRIENDS	$5,000
MANNA FOOD	$5,000
BREAD FOR THE CITY	$5,000
AMERICAN SOC FOR PROTECT OF NATURE IN ISRAEL	$4,500
SANTA FE JEWISH CENTER-CHABAD	$4,000
AMIGOS BRAVOS	$3,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 48 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +66% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

+66%

Still filing today

71%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthInternationalFood & NutritionCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

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ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $68k · revenue +68%
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SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $55k · revenue +10%
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CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +80%

Funded once

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ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +78%
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THRIVE EAST OF THE RIVER
one grant, 2020 · $4k
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HORTON'S KIDS INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +66%

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.

Northern New Mexicans Protecting Land Water and Rights Inc

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…

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Santa Fe Community Foundation

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,…

Philanthropy

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal

Bold Futures Nm

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,…

Human Services

International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International

The Santa Fe Opera

To further the operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a varied repertoire of new as well as rarely performed and standard works, to ensure excellence of opera's future through its apprentice…

Arts & Culture

Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund

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…

Civil Rights

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports

Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment

Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment

Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for the Aging Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 64 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/43

Grantees still filing

34/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Improvement$824,920Other$756,800Arts & Culture$218,500Health$151,500Food & Nutrition$111,500Crime & Legal$63,000International$58,500

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

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.

Santa Fe Community FoundationNM37.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sulica Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sulica Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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