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Van Essen Family 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $18,000 |
| SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC | $5,000 |
| ST MICHAEL'S HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TRINITY UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| DUKE FUQUA BUSINESS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| SANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST | $5,000 |
| THINK NEW MEXICO | $5,000 |
| ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR CANCER | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| LAP DOG RESCUE OF NM INC | $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 (FY18–25, $41k) 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.
47 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 5 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- SFSANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +47%
- SFSANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC8× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +152%
- SFSANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST8× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +171%
Funded once
- SVST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +52%
- PPCone grant, 2021 · $5k
- GUGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +51%
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.
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,…
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,…
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
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…
New mexico consortium (nmc) integrates the needs of new mexico's research universities to build liason research between local universities and organizations. nmc builds strategic connections with scientific institutions throughout the…
The mission of new mexico state university foundation is to foster long-term relationships with our alumni, supporters, and community in order to secure, manage, steward, and protect a sustainable source of private resources that will…
To support the university of new mexico as the source of innovation management, patent prosecution, and licensing of technologies developed at the university.
To preserve new mexico's land heritage by helping people conserve the places they love. nmlc works with landowners and others to protect wildlife habitat, agricultural lands, scenic open space, cultural and historic resources, and…
The new mexico humanities council (nmhc) supports and conducts innovative and imaginative programs throughout the state that lead to a greater understanding of, and motivate interest in, the richness of our human experience and heritage.…
The santa fe botanical garden celebrates, cultivates and conserves the rich botanical heritage and biodiversity of our region. in partnership with nature, we demonstrate our commitment through education, science, conservation, community…
To build, invest and manage endowment funds to enhance the quality of new mexico through informed, strategic grantmaking.
To deliver accessible world-class student experiences by providing quality programs and services that ensure student success through meaningful learning. to be an inclusive and innovative university serving life-long learners who…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of New Mexico Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southwest Mn Christian High School. 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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 61 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 INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE INC DBA IFAM ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds St Michaels High School Foundation ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
- Who funds THINK NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds ESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EL PORVENIR ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE ↗
- Who funds Lap Dog Rescue of NM Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW MEXICO INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Thornburg Foundation · Bolene Charitable Trust · The Abeles Foundation · Brindle Foundation · Lannan Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · Feinberg Foundation · Enterprise Bank & Trust Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute
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 Van Essen Family 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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