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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…

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$423k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.6MHousing & Shelter$1.5MEducation$1.3MEnvironment$924kHuman Services$744kHealth$527kReligion$520kYouth Development$470kOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 65 grants below total $2,030,232, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,288,433 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $258,201 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $154k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $715k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $488k
  • $250k+2 grants · $673k
$13,344
Median grant
2
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TAOS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE - TEC$30,000
VISTA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PUERTO SEGURO SAFE HARBOR INC: $6k → 25%THE FOOD DEPOT: $30k → 12%LAS CUMBRES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $58k → 18%FOOD DEPOT: $28k → 12%LAS CUMBRES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 18%THE FOOD DEPOT: $25k → 12%LAS CUMBRES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $14k → 18%LAS CUMBRES: $13k → 18%THE FOOD DEPOT: $14k → 12%LAS CUMBRES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 18%THE FOOD DEPOT: $13k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $10k → 12%DREAMTREE PROJECT: $369k → 18%NOT FORGOTTEN OUTREACH INC: $123k → 18%DREAMTREE PROJECT: $118k → 18%DREAMTREE PROJECT: $102k → 18%NOT FORGOTTEN OUTREACH INC: $76k → 18%DREAMTREE PROJECT: $68k → 18%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $67k → 18%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $50k → 18%DREAMTREE PROJECT: $46k → 18%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $27k → 18%DREAMTREE PROJECT: $22k → 18%TAOS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $21k → 18%DREAMTREE PROJECT: $20k → 18%TAOS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $18k → 18%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE: $17k → 18%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE: $17k → 18%NOT FORGOTTEN OUTREACH INC: $13k → 18%ENSUENOS Y LOS ANGELITOS DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $13k → 18%TAOS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $12k → 18%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $11k → 18%NONVIOLENCE WORKS: $11k → 18%NOT FORGOTTEN OUTREACH: $10k → 18%ENSUENOS Y LOS ANGELITOS DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 18%TAOS BEHAVIORAL HEALTHNONVIOLENCE WORKS: $9k → 18%NONVIOLENCE WORKS INC: $9k → 18%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE: $7k → 18%PAUL BASCH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $6k → 18%INSIDE OUT RECOVERY: $9k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MT
IL
MA
OR
OH
PA
CO
NE
NM
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 74 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
65

Total granted

$8.1M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+8%

Still filing today

73%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $412k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • DT
    DREAM TREE PROJECT
    8× · 2018–2025 · $745k · revenue +232%
  • TC
    Taos Center for the Arts
    9× · 2017–2025 · $596k · revenue +88%
  • TS
    TAOS SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $454k · revenue +149% · 52% of their budget

Funded once

  • BB
    Blue Barn Theatre
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -14%
  • VO
    VILLAGE OF QUESTA
    one grant, 2022 · $67k
  • LM
    LA MERCED DE SANTA BARBARA
    one grant, 2023 · $65k
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.

1
Community Power New Mexico
Community Improvement
2
Taos Arts Council

Promote awareness, understanding, and appreciation of all creative arts in Taos County and the northern NM area.

Unclassified
3
Friends of the Pecos River
Environment
4
Association of Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists of New Mexico
Science & Tech
5
Protect Tesuque

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…

Environment
6
Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society Inc

To support animals, save lives, and spread compassion.

Animals
7
El Pueblo Health Services Inc

Primary Rural Health Care

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8
Outdoor New Mexico

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…

Environment
9
Recursos de Santa Fe

Shows the culture of the American southwest

Arts & Culture
10
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
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11
Santa Fe Forest Coalition

Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico

Environment
12
Taos Volunteer Fire Department Inc

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Taos Land Trust; 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.
04the grantee network

100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/100
Grantees still filing
71/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Taos Center for the Arts: $595,733 · OtherTaos Center for the ArtsAmigos Bravos Inc: $267,877 · OtherMAS COMUNIDAD: $213,600 · OtherTAOS MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS: $198,961 · OtherYouth Heartline: $251,806 · Other+101 more: $3,769,754 · Other+101 moreDREAM TREE PROJECT: $744,876 · Human ServicesDREAM TREE PROJECTNOT FORGOTTEN OUTREACH INC: $222,760 · Human ServicesNOT FORGOTTEN OUTR…COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $194,550 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY AGAINST …LAS CUMBRES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $124,500 · Human ServicesLAS CUMBRES COMMUN…THE FOOD DEPOT: $119,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD DEPOTNONVIOLENCE WORKS INC: $79,250 · Human ServicesNEW MEXICO IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER: $72,000 · Human Services+5 more: $66,000 · Human ServicesTAOS SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC: $454,249 · Arts & CultureBlue Barn Theatre: $75,000 · Arts & CultureOO-OO-NAH ART & CULTURAL CENTER: $71,350 · Arts & CultureThe Paseo Project Inc: $64,500 · Arts & CultureSTEMARTS LAB: $40,500 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $80,685 · Arts & CultureHEART OF TAOS: $329,850 · Housing & ShelterTAOS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterTaos Coalition To End Homelessness Inc: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterVETERANS OFFGRID INC: $26,500 · Housing & ShelterTAOS LAND TRUST: $248,606 · EnvironmentRivers & Birds Inc: $229,766 · EnvironmentNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $53,400 · EnvironmentSANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST: $47,215 · EnvironmentBridges Project for Education: $189,636 · EducationSHUTER LIBRARY OF ANGEL FIRE: $111,698 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC: $94,667 · EducationTHE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING: $27,500 · EducationDALLAS AFTERSCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationEMBUDO VALLEY TUTORING ASSOCIATION: $19,000 · Education+4 more: $44,000 · EducationAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of Southern New Mexico: $103,000 · PhilanthropyQUESTA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND: $57,850 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS RESEARCH: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$5,297,731Human Services$1,622,936Arts & Culture$786,284Housing & Shelter$701,350Environment$578,987Education$506,501Philanthropy$430,850

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDREAM TREE PROJECT: $744,876 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetTaos Center for the Arts: $595,733 over 9y, 23% of budgetTAOS SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC: $454,249 over 8y, 52% of budgetHEART OF TAOS: $329,850 over 8y, 66% of budgetAmigos Bravos Inc: $267,877 over 7y, 16% of budgetYouth Heartline: $251,806 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetTAOS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $250,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAOS LAND TRUST: $248,606 over 7y, 25% of budgetRivers & Birds Inc: $229,766 over 8y, 61% of budgetNOT FORGOTTEN OUTREACH INC: $222,760 over 4y, 24% of budgetMAS COMUNIDAD: $213,600 over 6y, 40% of budgetCOMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $194,550 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetBridges Project for Education: $189,636 over 8y, 25% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOME HEALTH CARE INC: $173,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetField Institute of Taos: $170,796 over 6y, 18% of budgetHumane Society of Taos Inc dba Stray Hearts Animal Shelter: $151,574 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetLAS CUMBRES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $124,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLOCALOGY: $123,834 over 5y, 22% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS: $123,411 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $119,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSHUTER LIBRARY OF ANGEL FIRE: $111,698 over 2y, 33% of budgetTAOS HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $96,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTaos Coalition To End Homelessness Inc: $95,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC: $94,667 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE KIDS 1: $89,500 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetGolden Willow Retreat Inc: $82,663 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetSociety of the Muse of the Southwest: $80,621 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetEQUINE SPIRIT SANCTUARY: $80,575 over 8y, 17% of budgetNONVIOLENCE WORKS INC: $79,250 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBlue Barn Theatre: $75,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNEW MEXICO IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER: $72,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTwirl A Play and Discovery Space Inc: $71,505 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetOO-OO-NAH ART & CULTURAL CENTER: $71,350 over 3y, 25% of budgetTALPA COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $70,048 over 6y, 13% of budgetThe Paseo Project Inc: $64,500 over 5y, 22% of budgetTAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS: $57,950 over 4y, 14% of budgetQUESTA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND: $57,850 over 2y, 58% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $53,400 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTAOS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $52,900 over 4y, 14% of budgetSANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST: $47,215 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetLIONS CLUB OF TAOS INC: $44,700 over 3y, 19% of budgetTAOS FEEDS TAOS INC: $43,100 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetSearch and Rescue Taos Inc: $40,550 over 4y, 27% of budgetSTEMARTS LAB: $40,500 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetAIRE: $34,438 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetTaos Sports Associates Inc: $33,169 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetI4TL CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION INC: $31,940 over 1y, 63% of budget
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.

  • 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 TAOS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Marshall L and Perrin…Santa Fe Community Fo…Los Alamos National L…Reed Family Foundatio…Lor Foundation IncPlanet in Peace Found…Robert T Keeler Found…JF Maddox FoundationCon Alma Health Found…The Moore Charitable …New Mexico Community …Grace Family Foundati…
Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation IncNM63.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation · Reed Family Foundation Inc · Lor Foundation Inc · Planet in Peace Foundation · Robert T Keeler Foundation · JF Maddox Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · The Moore Charitable Foundation Inc · New Mexico Community Foundation · Grace Family Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    Find your warmest path to The Taos Community Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 153 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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