Las Vegas New Mexico Community Foun
Las Vegas, NM · EIN 82-1340450. Reported 67 grants totalling $1,026,472 to 48 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Las Vegas New Mexico Community Foun, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for community improvement (NTEE S12).
- How spread out its giving is. 48 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 37% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $6,100 and the largest $53,240. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luna Community College Foundation | Las Vegas, NM | $92,150 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mora Creative Council | Mora, NM | $78,240 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mora County Water Alliance | Holman, NM | $65,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hermits Peak Watershed Alliance | Sapello, NM | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Food Depot | Santa Fe, NM | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rotary Club of Las Vegas | Las Vegas, NM | $45,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Somos Familia Family Institute | Las Vegas, NM | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Samaritan House Inc | Las Vegas, NM | $42,198 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Our Lady of Sorrows Parish | Las Vegas, NM | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rociada Baptist Church | Rociada, NM | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Other - Less Than 5000 | $30,843 | 2 | 2 | 2024 | |
| Hermits Peak Watershed Alliance | Sapello, NM | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Mexico Community Foundation | Santa Fe, NM | $22,500 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Animal Welfare Coalition of Northeastern New Mexico | Las Vegas, NM | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| First Born | Las Vegas, NM | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mainstreet Las Vegas Inc | Las Vegas, NM | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sunrise Clinics | Santa Rosa, NM | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Penderies Village Mutual Domestic | Rociada, NM | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Donorschoose Org | New York, NY | $16,100 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation | Espanola, NM | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Las Vegas Arts Council | Las Vegas, NM | $13,580 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Amistad Y Resolana | Las Vegas, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Armand Hammer United World College of the American West | Montezuma, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Collaborative Visions | Mora, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Collins Lake Autism Center | Cleveland, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Comedor De San Pascual | Las Vegas, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cooking With Kids Inc | Santa Fe, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cornerstones Community Partnerships | Santa Fe, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| El Centro Family Health | Espanola, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| El Valle Community Center | Villanueva, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Montezuma Hot Springs | Montezuma, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heart of David Worship Center | Las Vegas, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Help-New Mexico Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Las Vegas City Schools | Las Vegas, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Las Vegas First Community Service Foundation | Las Vegas, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Las Vegas Nm Media Marketing | Las Vegas, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little League Baseball Inc | Las Vegas, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mora County Economic Development Corporation | Mora, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mora Valley Community Health Services Inc | Mora, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Vistas | Santa Fe, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rio Grande Alcoholism Treatment Center Incorporated | Taos, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Safe Space | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Miguel County | Las Vegas, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas Nm Community Service Foundation | Las Vegas, NM | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Reading Quest | Santa Fe, NM | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Castellano Foundation | Pecos, NM | $8,955 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| West Las Vegas Schools | Las Vegas, NM | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Mexico Cares Foundation Incorporated | Santa Fe, NM | $6,906 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
11 of 48 (23%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 48 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | $30,000 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 28 | $431,601 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 13 | $252,788 | $17,440 |
| 2024 | 24 | $312,083 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
98% of its giving went to organizations in New Mexico. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New Mexico.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Las Vegas New Mexico Community Foun's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1002, Las Vegas, NM, 87701.
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