New Mexico · Private foundation
Waterfall 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.
- $48k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,003
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,003
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $476k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Waterfall Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $48k | 71% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $67k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $33k | 78% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $35k | 82% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $30k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $30k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $30k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $27k | 89% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amador Health Center Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Life Transition Meditation Center | $22,916 | 2 | 13% |
| Ohmyjaw Inc | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Four Paws and a Wake Up Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Earthpercent Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Her Justice Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Health Freedom Defense Fund Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rio Grande Honor Flight | $10,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Action Program for Animals | $9,800 | 3 | 1% |
| The Weston a Price Foundation | $8,003 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($105k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Waterfall Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico · Carroll Petrie Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Waterfall Foundation
- How much does Waterfall Foundation give?
- Waterfall Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $48,013 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Waterfall Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Animals (17%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Waterfall Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Amador Health Center Inc ($35k), Life Transition Meditation Center ($23k), Ohmyjaw Inc ($12k).
- Does Waterfall Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Waterfall Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Waterfall Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico, Carroll Petrie Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is Waterfall Foundation based?
- Waterfall Foundation is based in NM.
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