Children & Youth

Mission/Giving Statement: To support nonprofits providing or supporting family planning, sex education, reproductive rights, and teen pregnancy prevention. The foundation also supports work on end of life issues, healthy sustainable farming and has become interested in health care reform.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Family Planning; Sex Education; Teen Pregnancy Prevention; Reproductive Right; Healthy Sustainable Farming/Food Growing

Type of Funding/Funding Restrictions: Must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Mission/Giving Statement: The Partners in Education Foundation for the Santa Fe Public Schools is an independent nonprofit organization founded on the conviction that the entire community shares responsibility for the quality of Public Education. Its mission is to marshal resources and create alliances to foster excellence in Santa Fe's public schools.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Education

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Education: Partners in Education provides Teacher Grants for innovative classroom projects; Transportation for educational field trips; and Teacher scholarships for certification and professional development.

Application Instructions: Grant application instructions online.

Mission/ Giving Statement: The Buckaroo Ball Foundation Fund at the New Mexico Community Foundation provides assistance to at-risk children of Santa Fe County, by raising and distributing funds for the benefit of one or more non-profit organizations holding tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or public bodies providing services to at-risk children in Santa Fe County, New Mexico.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Children & Youth

Mission/ Giving Statement: The mission of the Allene and Jerome Lapides Foundation is to support organizations that strive to improve quality of life. Grants are made by invitation only to organizations engaged primarily in arts education, animal welfare and protection, environment and social welfare. The Foundation enables established organizations to maintain and expand their good work, and inspire emerging programs that are creative and solution-based. Foundation trustees will make grants at their discretion to any charitable purpose they deem worthy.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Animal Welfare & Protection; Environment; Women's & Children's Issues

Application Instructions:  Grants are made by invitation only.  Invited applications should include name and address of charity, nature of charity and contact person for charity. There are no submission deadlines, restrictions or limitations on awards.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Food Security; Educational Opportunities; Election Finance Policies 

Grantmaking Program Areas: Concentration in Early Childhood Development.

Type of Funding/Funding Restrictions: The Foundation will not fund individuals, religious purposes or lobbying.

Mission/ Giving Statement: To provide support for programs addressing at-risk children, youth and families, women's issues, protection of the environment and the promotion of peace.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Family, Children & Youth; Women's Issues; Environment; Peace and Security

Mission/ Giving Statement: The mission of the Taos Community Foundation is to improve the quality of life in the communities it serves by encouraging permanent charitable giving. To fulfill that mission, the Foundation creates permanent funds, prudently invests those funds, and makes grants from the investments to nonprofit organizations in Taos and western Colfax Counties.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Healthy Youth & Families; Creativity & Culture; Sustainable Environment; Strengthening Community; Field of Interest Grants

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Healthy Youth & Families: The grants in this focus area play an important role in assisting families with basic needs, education, medical care and mental health. The healthy youth and families grant making strengthens the connection between the personal and the social by providing a sense of belonging and a positive attachment to family, school, peers and the community.

Creativity & Culture: This area invests in key local institutions and nurtures local leadership and talent.

Sustainable Environment: The projects funded help sustain local land-based traditions and culture as well as increase public awareness of the overall benefits of land conservation.

Strengthening Community: Projects in this area emphasized the value of community, place, common interests and communion. The strengthening community grant making philosophy is to better prepare the communities we serve for the increasingly complex social problems we face. TCF believes that a strong community has avenues for strong communication, partnerships between sectors, community leadership, coalitions, and organized capacity-building for non-profits.

Field of Interest Grants: See website for Field of Interest Grant descriptions.

Type of Funding/ Funding Restrictions: Taos Community Foundation awards grants with an overall philanthropic strategy and intentionality to be responsive to the needs of the area. Effective grant making promotes social capital and supports the value of community. The Foundation's funding seeks to impact systemic change, and increase opportunities for people to overcome economic, political and social barriers. The Foundation funds in Taos County and Western Colfax County.

Application Instructions: Grant application instructions available online.

Mission/ Giving Statement: The PNM Resources Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the communities served by the subsidiaries of PNM Resources. The Foundation seeks opportunities for engaged philanthropy through a focus on education, environmental awareness and education, economic vitality, economic disparity and employee engagement.

Grantmaking Program Areas: PNM Reduce Your Use Grants; PNM Energy Exploration Grants; Matching Grants; Volunteer Grants

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

PNM Reduce Your Use Grants:  PNM Reduce Your Use Grants are awarded annually to nonprofits within the PNM service territory to enable nonprofits to take energy efficiency measures, lower energy costs and put more dollars directly into mission-based programs.

PNM Energy Exploration Grants:  PNM Energy Exploration Grants provide resources to teachers who propose innovative ideas to lead students in exploring energy-related topics.

Matching Grants:  When PNM employees and retirees support local charitable and educational organizations, the PNM Fund, a division of the PNM Resources Foundation, will match their donations.  Up to $1,000 annually.

Volunteer Grants: PNM Volunteer Grants turn PNM employees' and retirees' volunteer hours into cash. Through PNM Volunteer Grants, a company employee or retiree can request a contribution of as much as $500 a year on behalf of a New Mexico nonprofit organization with which he or she volunteers.

Application Instructions: Grant application instructions available online. Foundation prefers email inquiries as their Best Method of Contact.