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Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau at a glance

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Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau

As the official destination marketing organization for the city, visit albuquerque is responsible for promoting albuquerque as a competitive and world-class leisure, meeting, convention and sports destination, and enhancing its public image as a dynamic place to live and work.

$518k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$989kCommunity Improvement$130kFood & Nutrition$105kEmployment$60kReligion$60kHealth$50kYouth Development$10kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 31 grants below total $495,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $518,349 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,349 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE & HISTORY$30,000
BLUE RIVER PRODUCTIONS$30,000
EXPLORA$30,000
INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER INC$30,000
AMP CONCERTS$25,000
FLAMENCO WORKS INC$25,000
HISTORIC OLD TOWN ASSOCIATION$25,000
PASSPORT TO PUEBLO COUNTRY$25,000
MELTDOWN STUDIO LLC$25,000
LUNA AND LUZ LLC$20,000
CASA FLAMENCA$15,000
ARTEMIS PROMOTIONS INC$15,000
PLEASED TO PRESENT INC$15,000
ARTS HUB$15,000
NEW MEXICO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BIG JIM FARMS: $50k → 10%PASSPORT TO PUEBLO COUNTRY: $25k → 12%ADELANTE DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $50k → 14%SANTA FE ART TOURS LLC: $10k → 12%NM WINE: $25k → 14%ADELANTE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $10k → 14%NEW MEXICO WINE & GRAPE GROWERS ASSOC: $10k → 14%LUNA AND LUZ: $40k → 14%EXPLORA: $30k → 14%INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER INC: $30k → 14%HISTORIC OLD TOWN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO: $25k → 14%HISTORIC OLD TOWN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%TOURABQ: $25k → 14%MELTDOWN STUDIO LLC: $25k → 14%CASA FLAMENCA: $20k → 14%LUNA AND LUZ LLC: $20k → 14%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO: $19k → 14%ARTS HUB: $15k → 14%CASA FLAMENCA: $15k → 14%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO: $14k → 14%NEW NUEVO: $10k → 14%ROUTES BICYCLE TOURS: $10k → 14%COCREATIONS CANDLE SHOP: $10k → 14%ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE: $10k → 14%LAPIS ROOM: $10k → 14%ITALITY PLANT BASED FOODS (ITALITY LLC): $10k → 14%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO: $10k → 14%REMEDY COFFEE (DURAN PHARMACY): $10k → 14%BLUE RIVER PRODUCTIONS: $45k → 14%BLUE RIVER PRODUCTIONS: $30k → 14%NEW MEXICO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%RUNFIT: $10k → 14%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE & HISTORY: $30k → 14%GUJRATI SAMAJ OF NEW MEXICO: $25k → 14%GATHERING OF NATIONS: $25k → 14%MARIACHI SPECTACULAR: $25k → 14%NEW MEXICO TRADE ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%FUSION: $40k → 14%HERITAGE HOTELS: $31k → 14%FLAMENCO WORKS INC: $25k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE ORPHAN SIGNS: $25k → 14%FLAMENCO WORKS INC: $25k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE ORPHAN SIGNS: $25k → 14%PLEASED TO PRESENT INC: $15k → 14%AMP CONCERTS: $35k → 14%AMP CONCERTS: $25k → 14%FLYBY PROVISIONS: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NM; by stated purpose, 87%.

Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureaulessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$828k · 19 repeat orgs$596k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
17

Total granted

$828k
$346k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

68%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationEmploymentPhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NI
    NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO
    3× · 2023–2025 · $68k · revenue +47%
  • AD
    ADELANTE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +12%
  • MS
    Mariachi Spectacular de Albuquerque
    3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • EP
    ELECTRIC PLAYHOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • BJ
    BIG JIM FARMS
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • F
    FUSION
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Francisco Basque Folkloric Groups
Arts & Culture
2
El Museo Cultural De Santa Fe Inc

Mission is to promote, present and preserve hispanic arts & culture of nm. showcasing, encourging & supporting participation of hispanics in local arts economy; and presenting creative & cultural richness of our heritage, including arts &…

Arts & Culture
3
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
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4
Emiarteflamenco Academy

EmiArteFlamenco Academy is produced and directed by Vicente Griego and La Emi. Launched in 2014, this dynamic company is comprised of an ensemble of local and international artists, dancers and musicians. It embraces artistic excellence…

Education
5
Association of Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists of New Mexico
Science & Tech
6
Ballet Repertory Theatre of New Mexico

Enhance the cultural arts community through dance performance company and dance academy.

Arts & Culture
7
New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society

To promote folk music and dance.

Arts & Culture
8
National Institute of Mexican American History of Civil Rights
Civil Rights
9
Casa Dolores Co Claudia Mclaughlin
Arts & Culture
10
Santa Fe Jazz Foundation Inc
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11
New Mexico High School Musical Theatre Awards

Support and Enhance Performing

Arts & Culture
12
New Mexico Performing Arts Society

The new mexico performing arts society is organized exclusively for charitable, artistic, and educational purposes; more specifically to promote and perform high quality classical music and other performance art forms by new mexico artists…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Albuquerque Little Theatre; the most unlike its peers is Cardboard Playhouse Theatre Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
8/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUE RIVER PRODUCTIONS: $75,000 · OtherBLUE RIVER PRODUCTIONSLUNA AND LUZ: $60,000 · OtherLUNA AND LUZELECTRIC PLAYHOUSE: $50,000 · OtherELECTRIC PLAYHOUSEBIG JIM FARMS: $50,000 · OtherBIG JIM FARMSGATHERING OF NATIONS LIMITED: $45,000 · OtherGATHERING OF NATIONS LIMITEDNEW MEXICO WINE & GRAPE GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $35,000 · OtherARTEMIS PROMOTIONS INC: $35,000 · OtherFLYBY PROVISIONS: $35,000 · OtherHERITAGE HOTELS: $31,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · OtherPASSPORT TO PUEBLO COUNTRY: $25,000 · OtherTOURABQ: $25,000 · OtherMELTDOWN STUDIO LLC: $25,000 · Other+14 more: $155,000 · Other+14 moreNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO: $68,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCOAMP Concerts: $60,000 · Arts & CultureAMP ConcertsFLAMENCO WORKS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFLAMENCO WORKS INCMariachi Spectacular de Albuquerque: $45,000 · Arts & CultureMariachi Spectacular de AlbuquerqueFUSION: $40,000 · Arts & CultureFUSIONCasa Flamenca Inc: $35,000 · Arts & CultureCasa Flamenca IncINDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER: $30,000 · Arts & CultureINDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTERNATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATIONEXPLORA SCIENCE CENTER & CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALBUQUERQUE INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureEXPLORA SCIENCE CENTER & CHILDREN'S MU…GUJRATI SAMAJ OF NEW MEXICO: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCARDBOARD PLAYHOUSE THEATRE COMPANY: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $55,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreHISTORIC OLD TOWN ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementDowntown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative: $30,000 · Community ImprovementNEW MEXICO TRADE ALLIANCE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementADELANTE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $60,000 · EmploymentFriends of the Orphan Signs: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCARRIE TINGLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthDUKE CITY REPERTORY THEATRE: $10,000 · EducationRUN FIT: $10,000 · Education
Other$671,000Arts & Culture$488,000Community Improvement$105,000Employment$60,000Philanthropy$50,000Health$30,000Education$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO: $68,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAMP Concerts: $60,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetADELANTE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Orphan Signs: $50,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetFLAMENCO WORKS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetMariachi Spectacular de Albuquerque: $45,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetFUSION: $40,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNEW MEXICO WINE & GRAPE GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCasa Flamenca Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCARRIE TINGLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetNATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDowntown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative: $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetEXPLORA SCIENCE CENTER & CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALBUQUERQUE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW MEXICO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGUJRATI SAMAJ OF NEW MEXICO: $25,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetNEW MEXICO TRADE ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCARDBOARD PLAYHOUSE THEATRE COMPANY: $20,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetARTS HUB: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetDUKE CITY REPERTORY THEATRE: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNOB HILL MAINSTREET: $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRUN FIT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWHEELES MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Albuquerque Community…Marshall L and Perrin…Pnm Tnmp FoundationNusenda FoundationVintage Albuquerque F…New Mexico Humanities…Santa Fe Community Fo…Fidelity FoundationNetwork for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Albuquerque Community FoundationNM32.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albuquerque Community Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · Vintage Albuquerque Fine Wine & Art Auction · New Mexico Humanities Council · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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