New Mexico · Nonprofit
Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc
Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc (New Mexico) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,789,564 to it, the largest being EUGENE V AND CLARE E THAW CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,586,067). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $543k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to preserve, protect and promote the historic properties and diverse cultural heritage of the Santa Fe area, and to educate the public about Santa Fe's history and the importance of preservation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Protecting Historic Properties Historic Preservation (Architectural Conservation)1. Performed conservation work on Foundation-owned property, 545 Canyon Road, and made earth plaster repairs on property wall, restored historic wood screen door elements, reglazed historic window panes, and maintained plumbing and lighting fixtures. Repairs to historic brick paver bedding and rodent intrusion mitigation. Earthen plaster re-coating on areas of the main structures north face. 2. Performed conservation work at the Edwin Brooks House, 553 Canyon Road, including roof repairs and restoration of its William Penhallow Henderson-designed entrance gate. 3. Engaged with the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners for ongoing maintenance of the garden at El Zagun, 545 Canyon Road.4. Continued to refine the process for monitoring and management of all preservation easements held by the Foundation. Annual visits and inspections with owners of existing easements held by the foundation were made.
$250,617 spent$50,309 earned by the program81% of program spendingResearch and Education1. The Member Lecture Series, Salon El Zagun offers monthly informational lectures to our membership base, as well as the general public. For these lectures, we bring in experts in their fields to discuss a variety of topics, related to Santa Fe, New Mexico, History and/or all of the above. This year we had Nicolasa Chavez on the history of chocolate; Julianne Burton-Carvajal on Josefa Bustos; Chuck Wolfe on Urban Observation in Santa Fe; Elizabeth Comer on the Roots of James L Johnson; Sylvia Rodriguez on Acequias and Acequia Culture in New Mexico; Mulham Alkharboutli on discoveries made during his Preservation Internship with HSFF; Lillian Makeda on the History of the Santa Fe Style of Interior design; Tours of La Fonda with a trained Docent; and a docent-led tour of the Gustave Baumann exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Art.2. Presented, along with the City of Santa Fe Historic Preservation Division and the Old Santa Fe Association, the Heritage Preservation Awards in May 2025 at San Miguel Chapel, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail. Produced an advertisement with local paper for the awards. 3. Presented two Architectural Stewardship Awards in 2025. The first was to…
$55,680 spent$1,342 earned by the program18% of program spendingPreservation Trades InternshipThe Faith and John Gaw Meem Preservation Trades Internship was implemented for an 8-week, 320-hour period. Faith and John Gaw Meem Preservation Trades Intern Mulham Alkharboutli conducted hands-on preservation work at El Zagun, 545 Canyon Road. Projects included restoration and replacement of rough timber door jambs and rebuilding of double wooden doors on lower adobe storage space. Additional projects involved replastering the front entrance wall and other areas of El Zagun, and repairs and repainting of wooden floors in resident artists apartments.
$3,577 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $309,874.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.3M to $6.2M (+45%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 17% · 2022 19% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Larry Good
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $9k → $1.6M.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 73% · 2020 31% · 2021 53% · 2022 39% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc?
- Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc (New Mexico) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,789,564 to it, the largest being EUGENE V AND CLARE E THAW CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,586,067). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,789,564 in grants to Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc?
- EUGENE V AND CLARE E THAW CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,586,067 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Historic Santa Fe Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing