About Us:
Donors and Funding
The Sky Center of New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project strives to provide services at no cost to our clients and to make our services easily accessible to all who need them.
We rely entirely on grants, individual donations, civic and faith groups, foundations and in-kind support so that both clients and staff can focus on the work at hand. We are so grateful for the many donors listed below that make our services possible to the community. If you care about our mission, if your own life has been touched by suicide, depression, or related issues, or you want to be part of the collective invitation to offer hope, resiliency, and wellness to others- please send in your donation today and join our circle of care.
The Sky Center’s Current Donor List: 2020-2024
The Sky Center would like to give special thanks to the Edwards Wyatt Foundation for their generous donation that supported the development and creation of our new website. We would also like to give recognition to Joshua Sallach and Dickon Kent from Dsire Digital Design and Website Development for their work and support with designing and implementing our new website.
The Santa Fe Public School District has been a significant partner, providing facility space for our programs since 2009.
- All Together New Mexico Fund
- Anchorum St. Vincent
- Barker Welfare Foundation
- Brad Gallegos – Cardonal Financial
- Carl C. Anderson, Sr. & Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation
- Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W. Farris Foundation
- Charles Piper Cost Foundation
- CKD Inc. DBA El Toro Landscaping
- CHRISTUS Foundation Community Impact Fund
- CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center
- Church of the Holy Faith
- City of Santa Fe, Children and Youth Commission
- Community Health Funder Alliance
- Con Alma Health Foundation, COVID-19 Relief-RWJF Grant 2020
- Del Norte LOV Foundation
- Edwards Wyatt Foundation
- Envision Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation
- First Presbyterian Church
- Frost Foundation
- Individual donors
- James N. Cost Foundation
- Katz Amsterdam Charitable Fund
- Las Campanas Community Fund
- Lineberry Foundation
- Los Alamos National Lab Foundation
- Mayor’s Ball Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation
- Molina Healthcare
- McCune Charitable Foundation
- Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation
- New Mexico Department of Health, Office of School and Adolescent Health
- Resilient New Mexico: Behavioral Health for Families
- Resilient New Mexico: Telehealth Community Workgroup
- Robert A. Stranahan, Jr. Charitable Advised Fund of the Greater Toledo Community Foundation
- Roger Jordan Advised Fund of RSF Social Finance
- Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation
- Bede’s Episcopal Church
- Santa Fe Community Foundation Community Grants
- Santa Fe Community Foundation COVID-19 Response Fund
- Santa Fe Community Foundation – Envision Fund
- Santa Fe Community Foundation – Piñon Award
- Santa Fe Community Foundation Giving Together Program Donor Advised Funds
- Cabin Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation
- Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W. Farris Foundation Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation
- Chamisa Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation
- Edward John Noble Foundation for Jordan and David Smith Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation
- Jack and Mary Gilliam Endowment Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation
- Jordan and David Smith Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation
- Wallen-Eloisa Family Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation
- Santa Fe County Community Services Department
- Santa Fe Hestia Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation
- Santa Fe Kiwanis Club Foundation
- Santa Fe Public Schools
- The Sky Center/NMSIP Board of Directors
- Stanlic Foundation, a UBS Donor Advised Fund
- Still Point Foundation
- Steele Family Foundation
- Target Corporation
- The Catholic Foundation
- The Upswing Fund for Adolescent Mental Health
- Thornburg Foundation
- Thornburg Investment Management
Suicide Statistics
The Need for Suicide Prevention and Intervention Services
- Nationally among children aged 10 to 14, death by suicide is now more common than death from traffic accidents (National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2015).
- New Mexico ranks FIRST in the nation for youth suicide ages 15-19. (CDC Wonder, 2017)
- 40% of Santa Fe County high school students felt persistent sadness or hopelessness; 17% seriously considered suicide; and almost 10% attempted suicide in the past twelve months (NM Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey 2017).
- 40% of LGBTQ youth (including more than half of transgender and non-binary youth) report seriously considering suicide in the past 12 months (National Survey on LGBTQ Mental Health, Trevor Project, 2019).
These statistics do not reveal the true extent of the problem: the devastating loss of promise and hopefulness in a young life that is impossible to quantify. Unfortunately, suicide is a largely ignored issue until it is brought to the forefront by the incomprehensible death of a child.