GrantmakersNew Mexico

New Mexico Community Trust

Albuquerque, NM · EIN 85-4395064. Reported 141 grants totalling $21.7M to 71 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

71organizations funded
$91,903median reported grant
$21.7Mgranted, 2022-2024
72%of grantees funded again the next year
12%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 71 distinct organizations, with 12% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 72% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $91,903. Half of what it reported fell between $40,909 and $162,718; the smallest was $2,056 and the largest $2,035,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Under $5,000
2 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
15 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
25 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
32 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
48 grants
$250,000 Or More
18 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Torres Legal Solutions LLCAlbuquerque, NM$2,602,935222023
New Mexico Legal Aid IncAlbuquerque, NM$1,860,791222024
Unm Pathways - the Regents of the University of New MexicoAlbuquerque, NM$1,156,176222024
Tenderlove Community CenterAlbuquerque, NM$1,058,976332024
Albuquerque Community FoundationAlbuquerque, NM$963,621332024
Esperanza Shelter IncSanta Fe, NM$825,781112022
Center of Southwest Culture IncAlbuquerque, NM$659,250332024
Nm Department of Workforce SolutionsAlbuquerque, NM$606,535222023
The Life LinkSanta Fe, NM$578,340332024
Saint Elizabeth Shelter CorporationSanta Fe, NM$513,048332024
Silver Consolidated SchoolsSilver City, NM$500,000222024
New Mexico Black Leadership CouncilAlbuquerque, NM$447,749332024
Savila CollaborativeAlbuquerque, NM$434,008222023
New Mexico Immigrant Law CenterAlbuquerque, NM$405,394332024
Carmichael ConsultantsLos Alamos, NM$392,000112022
LevadoAlbuquerque, NM$378,000332024
Enlace ComunitarioAlbuquerque, NM$368,620322023
Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico TerritoryLas Cruces, NM$340,214332024
HopeworksAlbuquerque, NM$313,262332024
Yes Housing IncAlbuquerque, NM$303,810332024
Cultivating CodersAlbuquerque, NM$300,000222024
CASA MilagroSanta Fe, NM$295,572332024
NaevaAlbuquerque, NM$294,500112024
Dreamtree Project IncTaos, NM$276,856332024
New Mexico Coalition to End HomelessnessSanta Fe, NM$276,704222023
Moving Arts EspanolaVelarde, NM$267,756222024
Arizona Native Asset Coalition CorporationTempe, AZ$255,360332024
San Juan County Partnership IncFarmington, NM$234,302332024
Nm Public Education DepartmentSanta Fe, NM$226,500112023
Computer Science AllianceSanta Fe, NM$220,000222024
East Central Ministries IncAlbuquerque, NM$204,168112022
New Mexico Association for the Education of Young ChildrenAlbuquerque, NM$200,000222024
Partnership for Community ActionAlbuquerque, NM$200,000112022
Tides CenterSan Francisco, CA$200,000222024
Las Cumbres Community Services IncEspanola, NM$196,219332024
United Way of Lea County IncHobbs, NM$175,830332024
R4CREATINGRio Rancho, NM$175,000112023
Innovate-EducateSanta Fe, NM$159,500112023
AmparoAlbuquerque, NM$157,672222024
Cuidando Los Ninos IncAlbuquerque, NM$142,480332024
Supportive Housing Coalition of New MexicoAlbuquerque, NM$138,565332024
Nm Administrative Office of the CourtsSanta Fe, NM$135,198112023
Advocacy IncAlbuquerque, NM$133,000112023
New Mexico Workforce Solutions DeptAlbuquerque, NM$130,125112024
Adelante Development Center IncAlbuquerque, NM$125,000112023
Mandys Special FarmAlbuquerque, NM$125,000112023
Chainbreaker CollectiveSanta Fe, NM$118,340332024
La CASA IncLas Cruces, NM$112,065222023
Crisis Center of Northern New MexicoEspanola, NM$110,878332024
Youth HeartlineTaos, NM$105,686332024
Center for Civic PolicyAlbuquerque, NM$102,436222023
Albuquerque Adult Learning Center Alc IncAlbuquerque, NM$100,500112023
Marshall L and Perrine D Mccune Charitable FoundationSanta Fe, NM$100,000112022
New Mexico Tech FoundationSocorro, NM$100,000112023
Site Santa FeSanta Fe, NM$100,000222024
Veterans Offgrid IncCarson, NM$95,647332024
New Mexico Center for Housing LawAlbuquerque, NM$79,000112024
Rio Rancho Public SchoolsRio Rancho, NM$78,000222024
Health Equity Alliance for Lgbtq New MexicansAlbuquerque, NM$75,000112023
STEM Is Childs Play FoundationAlbuquerque, NM$75,000112024
Albuquerque Affordable Housing CoalitionAlbuquerque, NM$65,852222023
El Camino Real Housing AuthoritySocorro, NM$58,670332024
Self Help IncLos Alamos, NM$57,844332024
Behavioral Healthcare Services IncOwensboro, KY$55,000112024
New Mexico Mesa IncAlbuquerque, NM$50,000112023
Help-New Mexico IncAlbuquerque, NM$40,000112024
Explora Science Center & Childrens Museum of AlbuquerqueAlbuquerque, NM$39,000112023
Santa Fe Community FoundationSanta Fe, NM$25,000112023
La CASA Healing House Formerly Luna County Healing HouseDeming, NM$24,387112024
Los Alamos National Laboratory FoundationEspanola, NM$10,000112024
Crossroads for WomenAlbuquerque, NM$4,982112022

44 of 71 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 51 of 71 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.

Human Services
16 orgs
Education
6 orgs
Housing & Shelter
5 orgs
Crime & Legal
4 orgs
Arts & Culture
4 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 orgs
Public & Societal Benefit
2 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202241$8,953,633$98,161
202356$7,854,712$100,577
202444$4,928,759$61,788

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.

New Mexico
$21.2M
Arizona
$255K
California
$200K
Kentucky
$55K

Down to the city

Albuquerque, NM
$14.3M
Santa Fe, NM
$3.6M
Silver City, NM
$500K
Las Cruces, NM
$452K
Los Alamos, NM
$450K
Taos, NM
$383K

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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.

Albuquerque Community Foundation30 shared recipientsSanta Fe Community Foundation26 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund24 shared recipientsMarshall L and Perrine D Mccune20 shared recipientsNusenda Foundation20 shared recipientsNew Mexico Community Foundation19 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $91,903 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New Mexico.
  4. 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 New Mexico Community Trust'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 44 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 624 Tijeras Ave Nw, Albuquerque, NM, 87102.

EIN 85-4395064 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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