Direct support, right where we live.
Our Community Funding program supports the local organizations providing essential services, education and housing stability across Greater Santa Fe.
The Thornburg Foundation envisions a Santa Fe where youth, families and vulnerable populations have access to the services they need today, the education and opportunity to build toward tomorrow, and a meaningful voice in the policies that shape both.
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25 years of standing with Greater Santa Fe.Sustained, direct support for the organizations doing the frontline work
The Thornburg Foundation’s deep commitment to Greater Santa Fe.
The Thornburg Foundation's Community Funding program reflects our deep commitment to the greater Santa Fe community. We support local organizations on the front lines of human services, education, homelessness and policy — organizations that exhibit strong leadership, sound financial management, a commitment to excellence and a history of making a difference in their field or community.
Three focus areas.
Human Services
We support organizations that promote the health and wellbeing of youth, families and communities through essential services like food, housing and other critical social support.
Youth Engagement
We believe that combining a high-quality education with a passion for the arts keeps students engaged and builds the resilience they need to succeed long-term. We fund statewide arts mastery schools, impactful youth programs and the wraparound support services that keep students in school and on track.
Homelessness
We support organizations on the front lines of outreach, shelter and services for people experiencing homelessness in Santa Fe, as well as those advancing the policy changes needed to move people out of homelessness and into stability for good.
A 25-Year Commitment
The Foundation has given operational grants to homelessness providers and other frontline Santa Fe organizations for more than two decades — even as our strategic initiatives have grown, we have remained firmly committed to sustaining the human service and education organizations serving the community.
A Coordinated Strategy on Homelessness
In 2022, the Foundation launched an initiative that brought together city, county, philanthropic and nonprofit organizations to advance a common strategy for tackling homelessness in Santa Fe — an approach now being extended through the Foundation's dedicated Housing initiative.
Reaching Students Who Need It Most
The Adelante Program, a longtime Community Funding grantee, identifies and supports students in Santa Fe Public Schools who lack stable housing. During the 2025–2026 school year, Adelante provided services for 1,036 students from 491 families — a snapshot of the intensifying need for the wraparound services Community Funding supports.
Featured Projects
The Food Depot
Northern New Mexico's regional food bank, distributing food through a network of partner agencies across nine counties to address hunger among the region's most vulnerable residents.
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The Life Link
Breaks cycles of homelessness, mental illness, trauma and addiction in Santa Fe—providing housing, behavioral health care and trauma-informed services that help individuals and families build healthier, more stable lives.
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Communities in Schools of New MexicoCommunities in Schools of New Mexico
Placing site coordinators inside Santa Fe schools to connect students with the food, tutoring, mental health support and stable housing resources they need to stay in school and succeed — including the Adelante Program's work with students experiencing housing instability.
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Adelante Program
Santa Fe Public Schools' own program for students and families experiencing homelessness, reaching roughly 1,100 children a year with emergency rent assistance, food, clothing and case management that helps kids stay housed, enrolled and supported at school.
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Leslie Garcia
Community Funding Officer“Santa Fe is our home. Through Community Funding, we stand with the local organizations serving youth, families, and vulnerable neighbors every day — the frontline work that keeps our community strong.”