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The Taos Community Foundation Inc
See schedule othe foundation's mission is to improve the quality of life for people in taos and western colfax counties by building and managing endowment funds, by awarding grants to local nonprofit organizations, by convening area residents to discuss issues of critical importance to the community, and by providing leadership for key…
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.
The 65 grants below total $2,030,232 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,288,433 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $258,201 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $154k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $715k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $488k
- $250k+2 grants · $673k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAOS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $423,453 |
| TAOS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP | $250,000 |
| AMIGOS BRAVOS | $214,073 |
| DREAMTREE PROJECT | $117,569 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO | $103,000 |
| NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE | $53,400 |
| RIVERS & BIRDS | $45,873 |
| LIONS CLUB OF TAOS INC | $38,000 |
| VISTA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| TAOS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE - TEC | $30,000 |
| BRIDGES PROJECT FOR EDUCATION | $28,983 |
| FIELD INSTITUTE OF TAOS (FIT) | $28,296 |
| NORTH CENTRAL FOOD PANTRY | $25,000 |
| YOUTH HEARTLINE | $24,094 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS | $23,728 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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 +51% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 12 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $412k 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
- DTDREAM TREE PROJECT8× · 2018–2025 · $745k · revenue +232%
- TCTaos Center for the Arts9× · 2017–2025 · $596k · revenue +88%
- TSTAOS SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC8× · 2017–2025 · $454k · revenue +149% · 52% of their budget
Funded once
- BBBlue Barn Theatreone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -14%
- VOVILLAGE OF QUESTAone grant, 2022 · $67k
- LMLA MERCED DE SANTA BARBARAone grant, 2023 · $65k
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.
Promote awareness, understanding, and appreciation of all creative arts in Taos County and the northern NM area.
To protect the air, water and soils of Tesuque Valley and Tesuque Village in New Mexico. The goal is to protect the Little Tesuque River, the Tesuque River and the Historic Village of Tesuque, New Mexico against threats that large-volume…
To support animals, save lives, and spread compassion.
Primary Rural Health Care
To promote the protection, appreciation, sustainable management, appropriate recreational use, and economic benefits of outdoor natural areas in new mexico, and promote educational and workforce development activities that advance these…
Shows the culture of the American southwest
Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico
It is the mission of the Taos Volunteer Fire Department to protect the lives and property of the citizens of Taos and the surrounding areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Taos Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Questa Economic Development Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 153 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 DREAM TREE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Taos Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds TAOS SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF TAOS ↗
- Who funds Amigos Bravos Inc ↗
- Who funds Youth Heartline ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAOS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds TAOS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Rivers & Birds Inc ↗
- Who funds NOT FORGOTTEN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds MAS COMUNIDAD ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Bridges Project for Education ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Field Institute of Taos ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Taos Inc dba Stray Hearts Animal Shelter ↗
- Who funds LAS CUMBRES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LOCALOGY ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds SHUTER LIBRARY OF ANGEL FIRE ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico ↗
- Who funds TAOS HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds Taos Coalition To End Homelessness Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE KIDS 1 ↗
- Who funds Rotary International Taos Milagro ↗
- Who funds Golden Willow Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds Society of the Muse of the Southwest ↗
- Who funds EQUINE SPIRIT SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds NONVIOLENCE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Barn Theatre ↗
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.
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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 Taos Community 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.
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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