The Taos Community Foundation Inc
Taos, NM · EIN 85-0425147. Reported 329 grants totalling $8,455,160 to 142 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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 The Taos Community Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 142 distinct organizations, with 8% 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. 56% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $12,500. Half of what it reported fell between $8,500 and $24,500; the smallest was $5,111 and the largest $423,453. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
65 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $1,149,794 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dreamtree Project Inc | Taos, NM | $672,726 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Taos Center for the Arts | Taos, NM | $553,261 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Amigos Bravos Inc | Taos, NM | $258,366 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| New Mexico Community Trust | Albuquerque, NM | $255,301 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Endowment Foundation | Hudson, OH | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Taos Housing Partnership | Taos, NM | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rivers and Birds Inc | Arroyo Seco, NM | $239,072 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Taos Land Trust | Taos, NM | $229,211 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Youth Heartline | Taos, NM | $216,031 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Not Forgotten Outreach Inc | Taos, NM | $212,760 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mas Comunidad | Penasco, NM | $208,600 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Community Against Violence Inc | Taos, NM | $167,200 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Bridges Project for Education | Taos, NM | $164,983 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Heart of Taos | Taos, NM | $163,950 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Localogy | Questa, NM | $163,856 | 15 | 5 | 2024 |
| St James Episcopal Church | Taos, NM | $159,400 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Mountain Home Health Care Inc | Taos, NM | $153,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Taos El Pueblito United Methodist Church | El Prado, NM | $146,003 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| True Kids 1 | Taos, NM | $140,000 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Humane Society of Taos Inc | Taos, NM | $137,974 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Rocky Mountain Youth Corps | Taos, NM | $136,211 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Shuter Library of Angel Fire | Angel Fire, NM | $111,698 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Field Institute of Taos | El Prado, NM | $110,296 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico | Las Cruces, NM | $103,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of New Mexico Foundation Incorporated | Albuquerque, NM | $95,650 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Twirl Inc | Taos, NM | $88,255 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Taos Feral Feline Friends | Rnch De Taos, NM | $84,813 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Central Food Pantry | Cerro, NM | $83,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Food Depot | Santa Fe, NM | $81,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Paseo Project Inc | Taos, NM | $76,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Roots and Wings Community School | Questa, NM | $76,050 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Talpa Community Center Association Inc | Rnch De Taos, NM | $76,025 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Taos Health Systems Inc Holy Cross Hospital | Taos, NM | $75,800 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nonviolence Works Inc | Taos, NM | $73,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| New Mexico Immigrant Law Center | Albuquerque, NM | $72,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Taos Coalition to End Homelessnessinc | Taos, NM | $70,950 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Roots and Wings Community School | Questa, NM | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St James Episcopal Church | Del Rio, TX | $69,031 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Las Cumbres Community Services Inc | Espanola, NM | $68,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Village of Questa | Questa, NM | $67,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lions Club of Taos Inc | Taos, NM | $65,700 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| La Merced De Santa Barbara | Peasco, NM | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Equine Spirit Sanctuary | Rnch De Taos, NM | $60,575 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| New Mexico Wilderness Alliance | Albuquerque, NM | $58,650 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Questa Economic Development Fund | Questa, NM | $57,850 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Golden Willow Retreat Inc | Arroyo Hondo, NM | $53,743 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of Questa Public Library | Questa, NM | $48,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Stemarts Lab | El Prado, NM | $47,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Society of the Muse of the Southwest | Taos, NM | $46,949 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Taos Municipal Schools | Taos, NM | $45,221 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Taos County Chamber of Commerce | Taos, NM | $44,900 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Taos School of Music Incorporated | Taos, NM | $43,300 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Taos Elders and Neighbors Together | Taos, NM | $40,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Taos Feeds Taos Inc | Taos, NM | $39,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Taos County | Taos, NM | $37,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Questa Creative Council | Questa, NM | $36,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Veterans Offgrid Inc | Carson, NM | $36,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Always Loving Mankind Food Pantry Incorporated | Angel Fire, NM | $36,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Pauls Peace Church Inc | Las Vegas, NM | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vista Grande High School | Taos, NM | $35,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Taos Sports Associates Incorporated | Taos, NM | $33,308 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Search and Rescue Taos Inc | Taos, NM | $32,550 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Red Willow Center | Taos, NM | $32,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| I4TL Center for Research and Innovation | Reading, PA | $31,940 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Oo-Oo-Nah Art & Cultural Center | Taos, NM | $31,650 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Animal Humane Association of New Mexico Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Embudo Valley Tutoring Association | Dixon, NM | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Agriculture Implementation Research & Education | Taos, NM | $24,438 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Taos Valley Acequia Association | Taos, NM | $23,800 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Alianza Agri-Cultura De Taos | Taos, NM | $23,300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ensuenos Y Los Angelitos Development Center | Taos, NM | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Taos Community Cares | Taos, NM | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Music at Angel Fire Inc | Angel Fire, NM | $21,358 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Unm Taos Tecc | Ranchos De Taos, NM | $21,059 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Art Up Northern New Mexico | Angel Fire, NM | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dallas Afterschool | Dallas, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| May Center for Learning | Santa Fe, NM | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Jewish Health | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Taos High School | Taos, NM | $17,863 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lower Des Montes Mutual Domestic Water Consumer Assoc (ldmmdwca) | Arroyo Seco, NM | $17,625 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region | Santa Fe, NM | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Crossroads Community Health Clinic Inc | Taos, NM | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Casting for Recovery Inc | Bozeman, MT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation | Espanola, NM | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Taos Alive | Taos, NM | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Taos Immigrant Allies | Taos, NM | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Living Word Ministries of New Mexico | Questa, NM | $13,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Penasco Independent School District | Penasco, NM | $13,476 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Couse Foundation | Taos, NM | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Metta Theatre | El Prado, NM | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Enos Garcia Elementary School | Taos, NM | $12,836 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Assistance Dogs of the West | Santa Fe, NM | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Taos County Economic Development Corporation | Taos, NM | $11,250 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Village of Eagle Nest | Eagle Nest, NM | $11,025 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rotary Club of Angel Fire Nm | Angel Fire, NM | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Taos Pueblo Central Management System (cms) | Taos, NM | $10,166 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Taos Middle School | Taos, NM | $10,017 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Afghan Scout Relief Fund | Rnch De Taos, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Animal Balance | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| B Nai Shalom Havurah | Taos, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charles Cisneros VFW Post 9516 | Cerro, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Downtown Taos | Taos, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| First Presbyterian Church of Taos | Taos, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| First United Methodist Church | Raton, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Inside Out | Espanola, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Latir Volunteer Fire Department Inc | Questa, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Moreno Valley High School | Angel Fire, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Non-Violence International | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Picuris Pueblo | Penasco, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Raton Hunger Pantry | Raton, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rio Grande Alcoholism Treatment Center Incorporated | Taos, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Santa Fe Preparatory School | Santa Fe, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kit Carson Electric Cooperative Inc | Taos, NM | $9,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Donorschoose Org | New York, NY | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Film Prize Foundation Inc | Shreveport, LA | $8,660 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cancer Foundation for New Mexico | Santa Fe, NM | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Millicent Rogers Museum Inc | Taos, NM | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sagebrush Inn | Taos, NM | $8,480 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Santa Fe Dreamers Project | Santa Fe, NM | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Unm Taos | Ranchos De Taos, NM | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 100 Taos County Initiative | Taos, NM | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Freedom Center Church | Questa, NM | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Questa Independent School District | Questa, NM | $7,245 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ranchos Elementary | Ranchos De Taos, NM | $7,140 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| De La Tierra a La Cosecha | Taos, NM | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Taos Historic Museums Inc | Taos, NM | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Artstreams From the Well of Memory | Ranchos De Taos, NM | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Los Ninos Del Teatro | Rnch De Taos, NM | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Mexico Legal Aid Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Puerto Seguro Inc | Socorro, NM | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Questa Independent School District | Questa, NM | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Questa Youth Sports League | Questa, NM | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sala Reach a Program of Localogy | Questa, NM | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Taos Entrepreneurial Network | Taos, NM | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Taos Youth Hockey Association | Taos, NM | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Catholic Daughters Court Sangre De Cristo #2229 | Questa, NM | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Taos, NM | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Knights of Columbus | Questa, NM | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mesa Vista Consolidated School District | Espanola, NM | $5,313 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
69 of 142 (49%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 82 of 142 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 68 | $1,475,164 | $13,865 |
| 2021 | 65 | $1,556,640 | $12,500 |
| 2022 | 66 | $2,243,330 | $15,776 |
| 2023 | 65 | $1,149,794 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 65 | $2,030,232 | $13,344 |
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
94% 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.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
4 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 18 grants totalling $202,618 to The Taos Community Foundation Inc. That is 16% of the 25 funders we can see giving to it. Those 4 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a community foundation.
3 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Wallace Foundation | New York | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation | Massachusetts | $17,000 | 8 | 3 | 2023 |
| Reed Family Foundation Inc | Wisconsin | $10,500 | 6 | 5 | 2025 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $118 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $12,500 -- 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 The Taos Community Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 77 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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 1925, Taos, NM, 87571.
EIN 85-0425147 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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