Opportunity Overview
The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico (CFSNM) is accepting applications for the Devasthali Family Foundation Fund fall 2026 cycle. The fund supports new and existing projects that positively impact southern New Mexico residents, with priorities in arts, education, and child hunger.
Funding and Deadline
Typical awards range from $1,500 to $4,000. CFSNM lists the 2026 fall cycle as August 1 through October 5, 2026. The controlling public grant page does not state an exact October 5 submission time or time zone, so Atlas does not infer one. Applicants should verify the portal cutoff directly with CFSNM before relying on the date alone.
Eligibility
CFSNM encourages nonprofit organizations located in Catron, Chaves, Doña Ana, Eddy, Grant, Hidalgo, Lea, Lincoln, Luna, Otero, Sierra, and Socorro counties to apply. The fund supports both new and existing projects aligned to its arts, education, or child-hunger purpose.
Realistic education and child-hunger candidates include Southern New Mexico nonprofits such as Children’s Reading Alliance, Casa de Peregrinos, Asombro Institute for Science Education, and Boys & Girls Club of Las Cruces, subject to each organization’s own nonprofit status, location, project scope, and portal eligibility confirmation.
Match, Allowable Costs, and Application Requirements
The controlling public page does not state a mandatory match or cost-share requirement and does not publish a fixed total program budget. It also does not provide a public itemized list of required forms or attachments. CFSNM specifically directs applicants to contact its team to confirm eligible and ineligible grant activities.
Applications are submitted through CFSNM’s online Grant Lifecycle Manager. New users must create an account. CFSNM instructs fiscally sponsored entities to register under the applying organization’s name and contact information, use the fiscal sponsor’s EIN, and provide fiscal-sponsor contact information in the pre-application form.
Contacts
General grant questions: (575) 521-4794 or info@cfsnm.org. Portal registration assistance is available from CFSNM Grant Administrator Valeria Arriaga at valeriaa@cfsnm.org.
Atlas Analysis
N9+ Fit Score: 0/100. This is a small nonprofit education/child-hunger grant and does not present a legitimate N9+ remote physical examination use case.
Atlas Opportunity Score: 70/100. This is a useful, currently open Southern New Mexico grant for appropriately located nonprofits with education or child-hunger projects. Award size is modest, and public application-detail visibility is limited before portal access. Dr. Miltie/QC Healthcare is classified No Bid as a direct applicant.
Outreach status: no recipient-facing outreach is advanced because CFSNM’s public page does not publish the exact October 5 cutoff time and time zone required by Atlas’s outreach gate.