· Private foundation
Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k20 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Exodus Ensemble | $14,500 |
| NM School for the Arts | $13,000 |
| Santa Fe International Literary Fes | $9,500 |
| Partners in Education Foundation | $9,410 |
| Copper Canyon Press | $8,000 |
| Vox Press | $7,120 |
| Terrain Publishing | $6,000 |
| Warehouse 505 | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,110 |
| Center for Contemporary Arts | $5,000 |
| The Outdoor Academy | $5,000 |
| Teatro Paraguas | $5,000 |
| Georgia O'Keeffe Museum | $4,750 |
| Santa Fe Girl's School | $4,500 |
| White Pine Press | $4,000 |
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, $33k) 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2026, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SANTA FE GIRLS' SCHOOL9× · 2017–2026 · $41k · revenue +65%
- EEEXODUS ENSEMBLE4× · 2023–2026 · $37k · revenue +68%
- PIPARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2026 · $37k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESSone grant, 2017 · $10k
- PHPecos High Schoolone grant, 2022 · $9k
- RBRESTLESS BOOKS INCone grant, 2025 · $8k · revenue -6%
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.
To present, in a rotating repertory, the finest latin american, spanish, and latino usa theatre and to serve as a catalyst for cultural exchange between spanish and english speaking americans.
Poetry flash builds community through literature
Culture advance and literature
The figge art museum actively serves the public by promoting appreciation and creation of visual art through education and by collecting, conserving, and exhibiting art. as a vital, responsive institution, the museum brings art and people…
Santa fe international literary festival (sfilf, or the festival) was incorporated as a nonprofit corporation in new mexico in 2023. the mission of sfilf is to connect writers, readers, and thinkers from around the world and close to home…
To provide education, feedback, educational resources, and instructional support to writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror to help them improve their work.
To identify, nurture and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.
Mission is to promote, present and preserve hispanic arts & culture of nm. showcasing, encourging & supporting participation of hispanics in local arts economy; and presenting creative & cultural richness of our heritage, including arts &…
Dzanc Books was hailed as the future of publishing in Publishers Weekly in December 2007. Beginning with modest goals of publishing 4-6 titles each year, the house now publishes between 10-15 books annually. Notable and award-winning…
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 72 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 THE SANTA FE GIRLS' SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EXODUS ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds COPPER CANYON PRESS ↗
- Who funds REEL FATHERS LTD ↗
- Who funds WHITE PINE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds TEATRO PARAGUAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds MANZANO MOUNTAIN ART COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Society of the Muse of the Southwest ↗
- Who funds RESTLESS BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds WAREHOUSE 505 ↗
- Who funds YOUTHWORKS ↗
- Who funds EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
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 · Thornburg Foundation · Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation Inc · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation · Lannan Foundation · The Simon Charitable Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · St Vincent Hospital · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Restless Books Inc: 5% of income from government
- Lesley University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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