· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| DUKE FUQUA BUSINESS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC | $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 |
| ST MICHAEL'S HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ESPANOLA HUMANE | $5,000 |
| TRINITY UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER & HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THINK NEW MEXICO | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- GUGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +51%
- SVST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +52%
- PPCone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 61 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 THINK NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW MEXICO INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Lap Dog Rescue of NM Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR CANCER ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Van Essen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Van Essen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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