· Private foundation
Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Exodus Ensemble | $10,250 |
| NM School for the Arts | $10,000 |
| Restless Books | $8,000 |
| Reel Fathers | $7,500 |
| Partners in Education Foundation | $6,700 |
| Vox Press | $6,000 |
| Bay Area Creative | $6,000 |
| Urbanite Arts Film Festival | $5,000 |
| St Thomas Parish | $5,000 |
| Santa Fe Girl's School | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,600 |
| LaMama Experimental Theater Clud | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,150 |
| Gavialidae | $3,750 |
| Gerard's House | $3,000 |
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, $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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- TSTHE SANTA FE GIRLS' SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +65%
- PIPARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS7× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +35%
- EEEXODUS ENSEMBLE3× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESSone grant, 2017 · $10k
- PHPecos High Schoolone grant, 2022 · $9k
- ENEAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -11%
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.
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
Through publications, events, and active community participation, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word.…
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…
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…
Publication of nonprofit literary works. Education in literature and the arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Santa Fe Girls' 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 27 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) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 15% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 65 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 THE SANTA FE GIRLS' SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REEL FATHERS LTD ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds EXODUS ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds WHITE PINE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds COPPER CANYON PRESS ↗
- Who funds TEATRO PARAGUAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds Society of the Muse of the Southwest ↗
- Who funds MANZANO MOUNTAIN ART COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds RESTLESS BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
- Who funds IN THE FAMILY WAY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA BOOKFESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHWORKS ↗
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 · 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
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 Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Inc 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.
- Restless Books Inc — 5% of income from government
- Lesley University — 1% of income from government
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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