Grant Recipients

We believe that solutions developed elsewhere may not always be relevant to the diverse peoples and communities that comprise New Mexico’s unique cultural landscape. We value the promise of place-based solutions that are immersed in local knowledge and reflect and respect local cultures. In our search for solutions, we look to our grantees, whose work, communications and lessons learned frequently provide the best answers.

The McCune Charitable Foundation is dedicated to enriching the health, education, environment, cultural and spiritual lives of New Mexicans. Details of the various open application grant opportunities are detailed below. All grants will be unrestricted, general operating grants and must benefit New Mexicans. Organizations can apply for only one grant per year, regardless of category.

The Marshall L. and Perrine D. McCune Charitable Foundation is dedicated to enriching the health, education, environment, cultural, and spiritual life of New Mexicans. The Foundation memorializes its benefactors through proactive grantmaking that seeks to foster positive social change.

Grantee Forms

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- McCUNE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
  345 East Alameda Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

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2026 Grantees

Below are the McCune Charitable Foundation's 2026 grant recipients by Priority Area.
Visit Foundation Priorities to learn more about these categories.

Building Links Between Arts & Community Engagement:

ALMA (Apprenticeships for Leaders in Mosaic Arts) - Albuquerque
APS Education Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Creative Campus Collective - Albuquerque
Arts Hub - Albuquerque
Chama Valley Arts - Chama
Creative Kids - El Paso
Fusion - Albuquerque
Georgia Okeeffe Museum - Santa Fe
Gerard's House - Santa Fe
Good Radio Shows Inc. - Albuquerque
Heartbeat Music Project - Crownpoint
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Inc. - Albuquerque
Lightning Boy Foundation, Inc. - Santa Fe
Littleglobe - Santa Fe
Los Alamos Arts Council - Los Alamos
Moving Arts Espanola - Velarde
National Institute of Flamenco - Albuquerque
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico PBS - Santa Fe
New Mexico Veterans Integration Center - Albuquerque
Oo-Oo-Nah Art & Cultural Center - Taos Pueblo
Performers of the Mesilla Valley - Las Cruces
Queen Bee Music Association - Santa Fe
Tomorrow's Women - Santa Fe
Working Classroom, Inc. - Albuquerque

Capacity Building in the Non-profit Sector:

501(C)PA - Albuquerque
Americans for Indian Opportunity - Albuquerque
Center of Southwest Culture, Inc. - Albuquerque
Center for Civic Policy, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Dream Team - Albuquerque
Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women - Albuquerque
Community Foundation for Southern New Mexico, fiscal sponsor for 100% San Juan Initiative - Las Cruces
El Puente de Encuentros - Albuquerque
gallupARTS - Gallup
Gila Community Foundation - Silver City
Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails Inc. - Albuquerque
Groundworks New Mexico - Albuquerque
Las Cumbres Community Services Inc. - Española
New Mexico Alliance of Health Councils - Santa Fe
New Mexico Black Leadership Council - Albuquerque
New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty - Albuquerque
New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness - Santa Fe
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Generation Justice - Santa Fe
Pueblo of Pojoaque Family and Children Services - Santa Fe
Santa Fe Community Foundation, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Local News Fund - Santa Fe
United Voices for Newcomer Rights - Albuquerque
United Way of Northern New Mexico - Los Alamos

Economic Development & Family Asset Building:

ASLA Foundation - Albuquerque
Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains - Denver
New Mexico Immigrant Law Center - Albuquerque
New Mexico Resiliency Alliance - Albuquerque
Partnership for Community Action - Albuquerque
Players Philanthropy Fund, fiscal sponsor for La Fonda Foundation - Towson
Rio Grande Community Development Corporation, fiscal sponsor for UNIDOS - Albuquerque
Saranam LLC - Albuquerque
Street Food Institute - Albuquerque
The City of Sunland Park, fiscal sponsor for FirstLight Community Foundation - Sunland Park

Education Transformation:

Ascend Advance Inc. - Santa Fe
Best Buddies New Mexico - Albuquerque
Collins Lake Autism Center - Cleveland
Community Partnership for Children - Silver City
Cuidando Los Ninos - Albuquerque
Dual Language Education of New Mexico - Albuquerque
Education Partnership of the Permian Basin - Midland
Environmental Education Association of New Mexico - Albuquerque
Friends of Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks - Las Cruces
Future Focused Education - Albuquerque
Future Forge Inc. - Silver City
Keres Children's Learning Center - Cochiti Pueblo
Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation - Espanola
Nature Friends - Las Cruces
New Mexico Community Trust - Albuquerque
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for River Source - Santa Fe
New Mexico Voices for Children - Albuquerque
NewMexicoKidsCAN - Albuquerque
Ngage New Mexico - Las Cruces
Saad K'idilyé - Albuquerque
Santa Fe Children's Museum - Santa Fe
The Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching - Albuquerque
Tribal Adaptive Organization - Kirtland
Twirl, A Play and Discovery Space - Taos
Zuni Youth Enrichment Project - Zuni

Influencing Planning of Built Environments:

Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice, fiscal sponsor for Participatory Budgeting Albuquerque - Albuquerque
Barelas Community Coalition - Albuquerque
Chainbreaker Collective - Santa Fe
New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light - Albuquerque
Southwest Educational Partners for Training (SWEPT) - Albuquerque
StreetVision Housing Strategies - Albuquerque

Leveraging Opportunities in Health Care:

Community Against Violence, Inc. - Taos
End of Life Options New Mexico - Albuquerque
Enlace Comunitario - Albuquerque
Espanola Pathways Shelter - Espanola
Family Caregiver Center of New Mexico - Albuquerque
Gallup Community Health, fiscal sponsor for McKinley Community Health Alliance - Gallup
Inhora - Albuquerque
La Plaza de Encuentro Gathering Place - Albuquerque
Rocky Mountain Youth Corps - Ranchos de Taos
Southwest Resource and Information Center, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Community AIDS Partnership - Albuquerque
The Savila Collaborative d.b.a. Centro Savila - Albuquerque
Tides Center, fiscal sponsor for Strong Families - Los Angeles

Local Food Industry Development:

2nd Harvest Foundation - Farmington
Brighter Bites - Houston
Casa De Peregrinos Inc. - Las Cruces
Cruces Creatives - Las Cruces
Farm to Table, Inc. - Santa Fe
La Semilla Food Center - Anthony
MoGro Mobile Grocery - Albuquerque
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Seed & Bloom - Santa Fe
Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area - Espanola
Pueblo of San Felipe - San Felipe Pueblo
Regents of the University of New Mexico - Department of Geography - Sustainability Studies - Albuquerque
Rio Grande Community Development Corporation - Albuquerque
Rio Grande Food Project - Albuquerque
Taos County Economic Development Corporation - Taos
The National Center for Frontier Communities - Silver City
Three Sisters Kitchen - Albuquerque
Yes Housing, Inc. - Albuquerque

Stewardship in Community:

ACCESS - Arts Community Culture Education Sports and Science - Albuquerque
Amigos Bravos - Taos
Amigos Bravos, fiscal sponsor for Communities for Clean Water - Taos
Amigos Bravos, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Mining Watch - Taos
Animal Protection of New Mexico, Inc. - Albuquerque
Conservation Legacy - Durango
Continental Divide Trail Coalition - Golden
Earth Care International - Santa Fe
Earth Care International, fiscal sponsor for Nihi K'è Baa-For Our Relatives - Santa Fe
Four Corners Rising - Albuquerque
National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) - Washington
New Mexico Environmental Law Center - Albuquerque
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for YAKANAL - Santa Fe
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance - Albuquerque
Quivira Coalition - Santa Fe
Renewable Taos, fiscal sponsor for Public Power New Mexico - Taos
San Juan Citizens Alliance - Durango
Sierra Club Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Sierra Club, Rio Grande Chapter - Oakland
Southwest Research and Information Center, fiscal sponsor for Greenroots Institute - Albuquerque
Sovereign Energy - Albuquerque
Trees, Water & People - Fort Collins

Strategies for Rural Development:

ATD Fourth World Movement - Gallup
Clovis Economic Development Corporation - Clovis
Contigo Immigrant Justice - Santa Fe
Cornerstones Community Partnerships - Santa Fe
El Raton Media Works - Raton
Ke’yah Advanced Rural Manufacturing Alliance - Flagstaff
Las Vegas NM Community Foundation - Las Vegas
Partnership for Community Action, fiscal sponsor for NM Eviction Prevention & Diversion - Albuquerque
Regents of the University of New Mexico, fiscal sponsor for UNM-Taos - Albuquerque

NM Collaborative Zone Grant Stories

Launched as a pilot program in 2019, the first NMCZG cohort of collaboratives is concluding nearly three years of building initiatives that responded to New Mexico’s challenges and also extended beyond the mission of any single participating organization.

The collaboratives began their work within a framework of questions – open-ended to both encourage learning and inspire transformational change among sectors, as well as ignite shared work among dozens of organizations throughout the state. Flexible funding from multiple local and national foundations was provided to develop, prove and support innovative responses to these questions.

We invite you to read about the collaboratives. These are the stories of everyday New Mexicans at the heart of the work. Each story tells of the unique outcomes, program development and relationships in the community that resulted.