Grant Recipients

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.




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Grantee Forms

PLEASE READ BEFORE SELECTING FORM:

  • Complete and return only the forms that the Foundation has requested that you complete and return (see your Grant Award Letter).

  • Return the completed form(s) by:  email, ernesto@nmmccune.org; fax, 505.983.7887; or mail:

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

  • Forms specific to the online Final Report are provided here for preparation in advance of submission online as an attachment to the report.

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2024 Grantees

Below are the McCune Charitable Foundation's 2024 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 Any Given Child ABQ - Albuquerque
Arts Hub - Albuquerque
Duke City Repertory Theatre - Albuquerque
Keshet Dance Company - Albuquerque
Moving Arts Espanola - Velarde
Partnership for Community Action, fiscal sponsor for Risolana - Albuquerque
Santa Fe Art Institute - Santa Fe
The NM Black Cat Cultural Enterprises, fiscal sponsor for Viiizon Academy - Albuquerque
Two Worlds - Albuquerque
Wise Fool New Mexico - Santa Fe
Working Classroom, Inc. - Albuquerque

Capacity Building in the Non-profit Sector:

100% Otero - Alamogordo
501(C)PA - Albuquerque
Americans for Indian Opportunity - Albuquerque
Center for Civic Policy - Albuquerque
Center of Southwest Culture, Inc. - Albuquerque
Grant County Community Foundation - Silver City
New Mexico Black Leadership Council - Albuquerque
New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty - Albuquerque
Pueblo of Pojoaque Family and Children Services - Santa Fe
Santa Fe Community Foundation, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Local News Fund - Santa Fe
Semilla Project - Albuquerque

Economic Development & Family Asset Building:

Albuquerque Community Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Healthy Neighborhoods Albuquerque - Albuquerque
New Mexico Immigrant Law Center - Albuquerque
New Mexico Resiliency Alliance - Albuquerque
Partnership for Community Action - Albuquerque
Rio Grande Community Development Corporation, fiscal sponsor for Color Theory - Albuquerque
Street Food Institute - Albuquerque

Education Transformation:

Collins Lake Autism Center - Cleveland
Cuba Independent School District - Cuba
Cuidando Los Niños - Albuquerque
Future Focused Education - Albuquerque
Keres Children's Learning Center - Cochiti Pueblo
LAB Learning and Action Buffet - Las Cruces
NACA Inspired Schools Network - Albuquerque
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Tribal Language Consortium - Santa Fe
Ngage New Mexico - Las Cruces
Partnership for Research & Education, fiscal sponsor for One Generation - Albuquerque
Saad K'idilyé - Albuquerque
Southwest Organizing Project, fiscal sponsor for Youth Agricultural Cooperative - Albuquerque
Zuni Youth Enrichment Project - Zuni

Influencing Planning of Built Environments:

Barelas Community Coalition - Albuquerque
Chainbreaker Collective - Santa Fe
Code for America - San Francisco
Cornerstones Community Partnerships - Santa Fe
Earth Care International - Santa Fe
Homewise Inc. - Santa Fe

Leveraging Opportunities in Health Care:

Enlace Comunitario - Albuquerque
Indigenous Lifeways, fiscal sponsor for McKinley Community Health Alliance - Gallup
La Plaza de Encuentro Gathering Place - Albuquerque
MAS Comunidad - Penasco
National Indian Youth Leadership Development Project Inc. - Albuquerque
New Mexico Alliance of Health Councils - Santa Fe
Southwest Resource and Information Center, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Community AIDS Partnership - Albuquerque
The Savila Collaborative d.b.a. Centro Savila - Albuquerque
Youth Heartline - Taos

Local Food Industry Development:

Center of Southwest Culture, Inc., fiscal sponsor for Cooperative Development Center (CODECE) - Albuquerque
Cruces Creatives - Las Cruces
La Semilla Food Center - Anthony
NACA Inspired Schools Network, fiscal sponsor for Indigenous Farm Hub - Albuquerque
New Mexico Farmers' Marketing Association - Santa Fe
Pueblo of San Felipe - San Felipe Pueblo
Rio Grande Community Development Corporation - Albuquerque
Taos Land Trust, fiscal sponsor for De la Tierra a la Cosecha - Taos
The National Center for Frontier Communities - Silver City
Three Sisters Kitchen - Albuquerque

Stewardship in Community:  

Animal Protection of New Mexico, Inc. - Albuquerque
Center for Social Sustainable Systems - Albuquerque
Center of Southwest Culture, fiscal sponsor for Pueblo Resurgents - Albuquerque
Conservation Legacy - Durango
Earth Care International, fiscal sponsor for Nihi K'è Baa-For Our Relatives - Santa Fe
Fundamental Needs - Cortez
New Mexico Environmental Law Center - Albuquerque
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Communities for Clean Water - Santa Fe
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for YAKANAL - Santa Fe
San Juan Citizens Alliance - Durango
Southwest Research and Information Center - Albuquerque
Taos Land Trust, fiscal sponsor for Rio Fernando de Taos Revitalization Collaborative - Taos
Trees, Water & People - Fort Collins
Western Environmental Law Center - Eugene

Strategies for Rural Development:  

Alliance for Local Economic Prosperity - Santa Fe
ATD Fourth World Movement - Gallup
Chaves County CASA Program - Roswell
Cibola Arts Council - Grants
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Greenroots Institute - Santa Fe
Outdoor New Mexico - Las Cruces



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2023 Grantees

Below are the McCune Charitable Foundation's 2023 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
Flamenco Works, Inc. - Albuquerque
Friends of the Orphan Signs - Albuquerque
Fusion - Albuquerque
IndigenousWays - Santa Fe
Keshet Dance Company - Albuquerque
Littleglobe Productions Inc. - Santa Fe
Millicent Rogers Museum - Taos
Moving Arts Espanola - Velarde
National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation - Albuquerque
National Institute of Flamenco - Albuquerque
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Arts Hub - Santa Fe
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Bernalillo Community Museum - Santa Fe
North Fourth Art Center - Albuquerque
Puha Hubiya - Albuquerque
Regents of the University of New Mexico - College of Fine Arts, Department of Music - Albuquerque
Santa Fe Art Institute - Santa Fe
Teatro Nuevo Mexico dba AfroMundo - Albuquerque
The Paseo Project, Inc. - Taos
Tomorrow's Women - Santa Fe
Working Classroom, Inc. - Albuquerque

Capacity Building in the Non-profit Sector:

501(C)PA - Albuquerque
Center for Social Sustainable Systems - Albuquerque
Center of Southwest Culture, Inc. - Albuquerque
Colorado Plateau Foundation - Flagstaff
Groundworks New Mexico - Albuquerque
New Mexico Black Leadership Council - Albuquerque
New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty - Albuquerque
New Mexico Community Capital, fiscal sponsor for The Semilla Project - Albuquerque
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Generation Justice - Santa Fe
Open Collective Foundation, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Health Equity Partnership - Covina
Pueblo Development Commission - Zia Pueblo
Santa Fe Community Foundation, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Local News Fund - Santa Fe
The Savila Collaborative dba Centro Savila, fiscal sponsor for Transformar Consulting, LLC - Albuquerque

Economic Development & Family Asset Building:

Albuquerque Community Foundation, fiscal sponsor for International District Economic Development
- Albuquerque
El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos - Albuquerque
New Mexico Resiliency Alliance - Albuquerque
Partnership for Community Action - Albuquerque
Prosperity Works - Albuquerque
Rio Grande Community Development Corporation - Albuquerque
Rio Grande Community Development Corporation, fiscal sponsor for Color Theory - Albuquerque
Santa Fe Community Foundation, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Impact Investing Collaborative - Santa Fe
Saranam - Albuquerque
Street Food Institute - Albuquerque
TenderLove Community Center - Albuquerque

Education Transformation:

Cañones Early Childhood Center - Cañones
CommUNITY Learning Network - Santa Fe
Cottonwood Gulch Expeditions - Albuquerque
Cuidando Los Niños - Albuquerque
Dual Language Education of New Mexico - Albuquerque
Environmental Education Association of New Mexico - Albuquerque
Explora Science Center & Children's Museum of Albuquerque - Albuquerque
Future Focused Education - Albuquerque
Gallina Research Institute for Indigenous Technology - Albuquerque
Homewise Inc. - Santa Fe
Keres Children's Learning Center - Cochiti Pueblo
La Academia Dolores Huerta - Las Cruces
LAB Learning and Action Buffet - Las Cruces
Las Cumbres Community Services Inc. - Española
Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation - Española
NACA Inspired Schools Network - Albuquerque
National Indian Youth Leadership Development Project Inc. - Albuquerque
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Out-of- School Time Network - Santa Fe
New Mexico Holocaust Museum and Gellert Center for Education - Albuquerque
New Mexico Wildlife Federation - Albuquerque
Ngage New Mexico - Las Cruces
OLÉ Education Fund - Albuquerque
Partners in Education Foundation for the Santa Fe Public Schools, fiscal sponsor for River Source - Santa Fe
Regents of the University of New Mexico - Department of Linguistics - Albuquerque
Robert F. Kennedy Charter School - Albuquerque
Southwest Creations Collaborative (SCC) - Albuquerque
Southwest Organizing Project, fiscal sponsor for Youth Agricultural Cooperative - Albuquerque
Teach For America New Mexico - Rio Rancho
Teach Plus, Inc. - Boston

Influencing Planning of Built Environments:

Barelas Community Coalition - Albuquerque
Chainbreaker Collective- Santa Fe
Mass Design Group - Santa Fe - Boston

Leveraging Opportunities in Health Care:

Compostela Community & Family Cultural Institute - Arroyo Seco
Española Public Schools- Española
Justice, Access, Support, and Solutions for Health dba Casa de Salud - Albuquerque
La Plaza de Encuentro Gathering Place - Albuquerque
New Mexico Voices for Children - Albuquerque
Southwest Resource and Information Center, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Community AIDS Partnership - Albuquerque

Local Food Industry Development:

BEN Initiative, fiscal sponsor for Bidii Baby Foods LLC - Gallup
Center of Southwest Culture, Inc., fiscal sponsor for Cooperative Development Center (CODECE) -
Albuquerque
Center of Southwest Culture, Inc., fiscal sponsor for Pueblo Resurgents - Albuquerque
Cruces Creatives - Las Cruces
La Semilla Food Center - Anthony
Partnership for Community Action, fiscal sponsor for Together for Brothers - Albuquerque
Reunity Resources - Santa Fe
Santa Fe Farmers' Market Institute - Santa Fe
The Tides Center, fiscal sponsor for One Generation - San Francisco
Three Sisters Kitchen - Albuquerque
Work in Beauty, Inc. dba El Morro Feed and Seed - Gallup

Stewardship in Community:  

Amigos Bravos - Taos
Animal Protection of New Mexico, Inc. - Albuquerque
Conservation Legacy - Durango
Gila Resources Information Project - Silver City
Hermit's Peak Watershed Alliance - Sapello
National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) - Washington, DC
National Wildlife Federation - Reston
New Mexico Environmental Law Center - Albuquerque
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Communities for Clean Water - Santa Fe
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Mining Act Network - Santa Fe
New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light - Albuquerque
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance - Albuquerque
Quivira Coalition - Santa Fe
Rio Grande Agricultural Land Trust - Albuquerque
Sierra Club Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Sierra Club, Rio Grande Chapter - Oakland
Southwest Research and Information Center - Albuquerque
Southwest Research and Information Center, fiscal sponsor for Coalition for Clean Affordable Energy
- Albuquerque
Taos Land Trust, fiscal sponsor for Rio Fernando de Taos Revitalization Collaborative - Taos
Trees, Water and People - Fort Collins
Western Environmental Law Center - Taos

Strategies for Rural Development:  

ATD Fourth World Movement - Gallup
Embudo Valley Library and Community Center - Dixon
Valencia Community Action Network (VCAN) - Los Lunas



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2022 Grantees

Below are the McCune Charitable Foundation's 2022 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
Escuela del Sol Montessori Inc. / Harwood Art Center - Albuquerque
Intersection for the Arts, fiscal sponsor for Dancing Earth Creations - San Francisco
Littleglobe Productions Inc. - Santa Fe
Moving Arts Espanola - Velarde
Museum of New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Museum of International Folk Art - Santa Fe
Partnership for Community Action, fiscal sponsor for Together for Brothers - Albuquerque
Rio Grande Community Development Corporation, fiscal sponsor for Arts Hub - Albuquerque
Santa Fe Art Institute - Santa Fe
Tomorrow's Women - Santa Fe
Wildlife Conservation Society Rockies Program - Santa Fe
Working Classroom, Inc. - Albuquerque

Capacity Building in the Non-profit Sector:

501(C)PA - Albuquerque
Center for Health Innovation - Silver City
Colorado Plateau Foundation - Flagstaff
New Mexico Association of Grantmakers dba Groundworks New Mexico - Albuquerque                          New Mexico Black Leadership Council - Albuquerque
New Mexico CASA Association - Albuquerque
New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty - Albuquerque
New Mexico Community Capital, fiscal sponsor for The Semilla Project - Albuquerque
NMCAN - Albuquerque
Rio Grande Community Development Corporation, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Social Justice and Equity Institute - Albuquerque
Roadrunner Food Bank - Albuquerque
Santa Fe Community Foundation, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Local News Fund - Santa Fe

Economic Development & Family Asset Building:

New Mexico Community Capital, fiscal sponsor for Native Women Lead - Albuquerque
New Mexico Immigrant Law Center - Albuquerque
New Mexico Resiliency Alliance - Edgewood
Prosperity Works - Albuquerque
Rio Grande Community Development Corporation - Albuquerque
Rio Grande Community Development Corporation, fiscal sponsor for Color Theory - Albuquerque
Rio Grande Community Development Corporation, fiscal sponsor for International District Economic Development - Albuquerque
Street Food Institute - Albuquerque
YouthWorks - Santa Fe

Education Transformation:

Albuquerque Interfaith - Albuquerque
APS Education Foundation - Albuquerque
APS Education Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Any Given Child ABQ - Albuquerque
Center of Southwest Culture, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Out-of-School Time Network - Albuquerque
Climate Advocates Voces Unidas dba CAVU - Santa Fe
CommUNITY Learning Network - Santa Fe
Cottonwood Gulch Expeditions - Albuquerque
Cuidando Los Niños - Albuquerque
Environmental Education Association of New Mexico - Albuquerque
Explora Science Center & Children's Museum of Albuquerque - Albuquerque
Future Focused Education - Albuquerque
Gallina Research Institute for Indigenous Technology - Albuquerque
Keres Children's Learning Center - Cochiti Pueblo
LAB Learning and Action Buffet - Las Cruces
Las Cumbres Community Services Inc. - Española
NACA Inspired Schools Network - Albuquerque
National Indian Youth Leadership Project - Albuquerque
New Mexico Wildlife Federation - Albuquerque
Ngage New Mexico - Las Cruces
Partners in Education Foundation for the Santa Fe Public Schools, fiscal sponsor for River Source - Santa Fe
Partnership for Community Action, fiscal sponsor for Cooperativa Korimi - Albuquerque
Regents of the University of New Mexico / Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies - Albuquerque
Regents of the University of New Mexico / Department of Linguistics - Albuquerque
Rio Grande Community Development Corporation, fiscal sponsor for UNM Community Engagement Center - Albuquerque
Southwest Creations Collaborative (SCC) - Albuquerque
Teach For America New Mexico - Thoreau
Teach Plus, Inc. - Boston
Zuni Youth Enrichment Project - Zuni

Influencing Planning of Built Environments:

Chainbreaker Collective - Santa Fe
Cornerstones Community Partnerships - Santa Fe
International Center for Appropriate and Sustainable Technology - Denver
Mass Design Group - Santa Fe
Santa Fe Community Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Santa Fe Housing Action Coalition - Santa Fe

Leveraging Opportunities in Health Care:

Bridge to Health NM - Santa Fe
Compostela Community & Family Cultural Institute - Arroyo Seco
Enlace Comunitario - Albuquerque
La Plaza De Encuentro Gathering Place - Albuquerque                                                                                                            Rio Grande Community Development Corporation, fiscal sponsor for Doña Ana Communities United - Albuquerque
The Savila Collaborative d.b.a. Centro Savila - Albuquerque

Local Food Industry Development:

Alianza Agri-Cultura de Taos - Taos                                                                                                                                            Farm to Table, Inc. - Santa Fe
La Semilla Food Center - Anthony
New Mexico Farmers' Marketing Association - Santa Fe
San Juan College Foundation / Harvest Food Hub & Kitchen - Farmington
The Tides Center, fiscal sponsor for One Generation - San Francisco

Stewardship in Community:  

Amigos Bravos - Taos
Animal Protection of New Mexico, Inc. - Albuquerque
Conservation Legacy - Durango
Earth Care International - Santa Fe
Gila Resources Information Project - Silver City
National Audubon Society Inc. - Audubon New Mexico - Santa Fe
National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) - Washington, DC
New Mexico Environmental Law Center - Santa Fe
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Communities for Clean Water - Santa Fe
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for New Mexico Mining Act Network - Santa Fe
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance - Albuquerque
Rio Grande Agricultural Land Trust - Albuquerque
Rio Grande Return - Santa Fe
Rocky Mountain Youth Corps - Ranchos De Taos
San Juan Citizens Alliance - Durango
Sierra Club Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Sierra Club, Rio Grande Chapter - Oakland
Southwest Research and Information Center - Albuquerque
Southwest Research and Information Center, fiscal sponsor for Coalition for Clean Affordable Energy - Albuquerque
Taos Land Trust - Taos
Taos Land Trust, fiscal sponsor for Rio Fernando de Taos Revitalization Collaborative - Taos
Western Environmental Law Center - Taos

Strategies for Rural Development:  

Carrizozo Works, Inc. - Carrizozo
New Mexico Foundation, fiscal sponsor for Greenroots Institute - Santa Fe
READ "WRITE" ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM - Moriarty
Valencia Community Action Network (VCAN) - Los Lunas
Visiones Collaborativas Collaborative Visions - Mora



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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.


More Information on the Foundation’s Grantmaking

More Information on the Foundation’s Grantmaking