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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of ALBUQUERQUE CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 31 grants below total $495,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $518,349 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,349 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUE RIVER PRODUCTIONS$30,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE & HISTORY$30,000
INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER INC$30,000
EXPLORA$30,000
HISTORIC OLD TOWN ASSOCIATION$25,000
FLAMENCO WORKS INC$25,000
PASSPORT TO PUEBLO COUNTRY$25,000
AMP CONCERTS$25,000
MELTDOWN STUDIO LLC$25,000
LUNA AND LUZ LLC$20,000
ARTS HUB$15,000
ARTEMIS PROMOTIONS INC$15,000
CASA FLAMENCA$15,000
PLEASED TO PRESENT INC$15,000
M'TUCCI'S BAR ROMA$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your 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%INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER INC: $30k → 14%EXPLORA: $30k → 14%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO: $25k → 14%HISTORIC OLD TOWN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%HISTORIC OLD TOWN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%TOURABQ: $25k → 14%MELTDOWN STUDIO LLC: $25k → 14%LUNA AND LUZ LLC: $20k → 14%CASA FLAMENCA: $20k → 14%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO: $19k → 14%CASA FLAMENCA: $15k → 14%ARTS HUB: $15k → 14%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO: $14k → 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%NEW NUEVO: $10k → 14%ROUTES BICYCLE TOURS: $10k → 14%COCREATIONS CANDLE SHOP: $10k → 14%BLUE RIVER PRODUCTIONS: $45k → 14%BLUE RIVER PRODUCTIONS: $30k → 14%NEW MEXICO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%DUKE CITY REPERTORY THEATRE: $10k → 14%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE & HISTORY: $30k → 14%GUJRATI SAMAJ OF NEW MEXICO: $25k → 14%NEW MEXICO TRADE ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%GATHERING OF NATIONS: $25k → 14%MARIACHI SPECTACULAR: $25k → 14%FUSION: $40k → 14%HERITAGE HOTELS: $31k → 14%FLAMENCO WORKS INC: $25k → 14%FLAMENCO WORKS INC: $25k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE ORPHAN SIGNS: $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

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NM; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureaulessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.6% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve 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

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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 +17%

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%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Albuquerque Little Theatre and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%15%<5yr12%7%5–10yr18%37%10–20yr15%15%20–35yr16%19%35–55yr17%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%13%<5yr12%9%5–10yr18%31%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr17%6%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/51
the rest of the field
11%
322/2,835

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 LIMITEDFLYBY PROVISIONS — $35,000 · OtherARTEMIS PROMOTIONS INC — $35,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO WINE & GRAPE GROWERS ASSOCIATION — $35,000 · OtherHERITAGE HOTELS — $31,000 · OtherMELTDOWN STUDIO LLC — $25,000 · OtherTOURABQ — $25,000 · OtherPASSPORT TO PUEBLO COUNTRY — $25,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION — $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 IncEXPLORA SCIENCE CENTER & CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALBUQUERQUE INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureEXPLORA SCIENCE CENTER & CHILDREN'S MU…NATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ATOMIC MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER — $30,000 · Arts & CultureINDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTERGUJRATI 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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

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

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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