The Taos Pueblo Foundation is a policy-driven, long-horizon institution rooted in over a thousand years of sovereign governance, committed to the next thousand. We build the infrastructure, strategy, and capital relationships that allow this region and its people to determine their own future.
Explore our strategyThe Taos Pueblo Foundation sets agendas. Grounded in the Pueblo's centuries-long tradition of sovereign governance and institutional action, the Foundation approaches the future the way it has always been approached here: with strategy, with conviction, and with a horizon that extends beyond any single generation.
We develop policy frameworks, deploy capital strategically, and build the infrastructure — physical, economic, cultural, and civic — that allows a place and its people to continue thriving on their own terms, with the discipline and vision the moment demands.
The Taos Pueblo Foundation is building a pipeline of the highest-impact investments in the Taos region — in close partnership with Taos Pueblo governance and community — and catalyzing the financial resources and strategic relationships needed to bring them to scale.
Strengthening the networks, spaces, and institutions through which Pueblo citizens and the broader community participate in shared life across generations.
Ensuring the traditions, knowledge systems, and living practices of Taos Pueblo are passed forward — not as artifacts, but as a living community.
Building the economic infrastructure, capital access, and institutional capacity that allows the Pueblo to determine its own future on its own terms.
Positioning Taos Pueblo as a driving force in the long-term development of the greater Taos region — for the benefit of all people who call it home.
Protecting the land, water, and ecological systems that are inseparable from the Pueblo's identity, sovereignty, and future.
A center of excellence for the entire community — anchored in the Taos region and led by the institution that has always known how to serve its people.
The knowledge that has sustained this land for a millennium, applied at regional scale — with the resources and policy frameworks to make it the standard, not the exception.
Not a collection housed elsewhere. A living institution — rooted in Taos, built for the world — that tells the full story of this land on its own terms.
The Taos Pueblo Foundation is building the blueprint for Indigenous-led, place-based institutional investment — one that others can follow. This is what self-determination looks like at full scale.
Not scholarships that send young people away. An educational infrastructure so exceptional it draws people to this region — and keeps them rooted in it.
A thriving ecosystem of Pueblo-based enterprise, built on sovereign ground, generating wealth that stays in the community and circulates across generations.
The Taos Pueblo Foundation brings to this work what cannot be built overnight — a continuous institution with deep roots in this land, an unbroken record of governance, and a community it has always answered to.
We think in generations because we always have. We build infrastructure that lasts because that is the only kind worth building. And we deploy capital with the same long-horizon discipline that has guided decision-making here for a thousand years.
We are looking for partners who understand that the most significant investments are the ones that outlast the people who made them.
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