Community Grant-Making Program
To help improve lives of youth and families across New Mexico, the Del Norte LOV Foundation is proud to offer our bi-annual Community Grant-Making program, which provides special programmatic funding to non-profit organizations in New Mexico.
The Community Grant-Making Program 2025 Spring Grant Cycle online application is available for submissions and applications are due by 11:59 PM MST on Thursday, April 3, 2025.
Important things to know:
Our bi-annual Community Grant-Making Program will distribute a total of $35,000 among 14 grantees for the 2025 year. A total of $17,500 will be given to seven recipients during our respective Spring and Fall Cycles.
Applications for our 2025 Spring Grant Cycle is open and will close 11:59 PM MST on Thursday, April 3, 2025. Notifications will go out in early May.
Applications for our 2025 Fall Grant Cycle will open on Monday, September 15, 2025 and close on Wednesday, October 15, 2025. Notifications will go out by early December.
Guidelines:
Del Norte LOV Foundation Community Grant applicants must be registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (or have an equivalent fiscal sponsor) that align with our mission to improve the lives of youth and families in the communities that DNCU serves, including Bernalillo, Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, and Santa Fe counties.
Grant applicants need to address and benefit one of the following impact focus areas: at-risk youth, community enrichment, education & S.T.E.M., and arts & culture (you may make the case of support for more than one area).
Applicants must apply for for programmatic funding, not for salary wages nor operational expenses.
Applicants must not support any one particular religion or belief system.
The Del Norte LOV Foundation is proud to highlight past Community Grant-Making Program Recipients!
Abrazos Family Support Services
Adelante Program for the Santa Fe Public Schools with fiscal sponsor, Partners in Education Foundation for the Santa Fe Public Schools
ArtWorks Program for the Santa Fe Public Schools with fiscal sponsor, Partners in Education Foundation for the Santa Fe Public Schools
Cancer Foundation for New Mexico
CASA Partners 4NMKIDS, Inc.
Children's Grief Center of New Mexico
Communities in Schools of New Mexico
Embudo Valley Tutoring Association
Family Learning Center, Inc.
Free Flow NM, Inc.
Global Give A Book, Inc.
Ignited Minds
Resolve (formerly known as IMPACT Personal Safety)
IndigenousWays
INSIDE OUT
Junior Achievement of New Mexico
Las Cumbres Community Services, Inc.
Luciente Inc.
MAKE Santa Fe
Many Mothers
Ojo Sarco Community Center
Parent Academy Program for the Santa Fe Public Schools with fiscal sponsor, Partners in Education Foundation for the Santa Fe Public Schools
Pojoaque Valley Schools Educational Foundation
Queen Bee Music Association
Reach out and Read Program at Christus St. Vincent Entrada Contenta Pediatric Clinic
Rio Rancho Creative Crossroads
San Martin De Porres Soup Kitchen
Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association
STEM Santa Fe
Storehouse West, Inc.
The Family YMCA
The Food Depot
The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
The Sky Center/New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project
