New Mexico · Public charity
Excellent Schools New Mexico
Excellent Schools New Mexico is nonprofit organization that identifies New Mexicos most promising public schools and school leaders, makes data-driven investments to fund their growth, and provides ongoing support to expand their impact.
- $966k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $540,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Excellent Schools New Mexico funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $966k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $1.3M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $733k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $156k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $482k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $304k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $876k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque School of Excellence Foundation | $540,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Mission Achievement and Success Education Foundation Inc | $495,833 | 4 | 23% |
| East Mountain High School Foundation | $425,000 | 3 | 52% |
| Cottonwood Classical Foundation Inc | $412,400 | 2 | 21% |
| Aequitas Education | $408,333 | 3 | 32% |
| Albuquerque Collegiate Inc | $335,579 | 6 | 97% |
| Altura Schools | $329,356 | 2 | 8% |
| Turquoise Trail Charter School Foundation | $325,833 | 2 | n/a |
| Solare Collegiate Foundation | $315,013 | 5 | 26% |
| Equip New Mexico | $300,812 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque School of Excellence Foundation | $540,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Mission Achievement and Success Education Foundation Inc | $495,833 | 4 | 23% |
| East Mountain High School Foundation | $425,000 | 3 | 52% |
| Cottonwood Classical Foundation Inc | $412,400 | 2 | 21% |
| Aequitas Education | $408,333 | 3 | 32% |
| Albuquerque Collegiate Inc | $335,579 | 6 | 97% |
| Altura Schools | $329,356 | 2 | 8% |
| Turquoise Trail Charter School Foundation | $325,833 | 2 | n/a |
| Solare Collegiate Foundation | $315,013 | 5 | 26% |
| Equip New Mexico | $300,812 | 1 | n/a |
| Voz Collegiate Foundation | $226,558 | 3 | 15% |
| Homewise Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Achievement First Inc | $145,000 | 1 | 0% |
| THRIVE Community School Foundation | $103,622 | 2 | 13% |
| Sgms Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 56% |
| Friends of Montessori Foundation | $68,400 | 1 | 64% |
| Vista College Preparatory Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Bes Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Dance Institute Nm Inc | $25,860 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Excellent Schools New Mexico supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Louis Calder Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · New Schools Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Excellent Schools New Mexico
- How much does Excellent Schools New Mexico give?
- Excellent Schools New Mexico reported 5 grants totaling $965,812 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Excellent Schools New Mexico fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (90%), Youth Development (6%), Housing & Shelter (3%).
- Who are Excellent Schools New Mexico's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Albuquerque School of Excellence Foundation ($540k), Mission Achievement and Success Education Foundation Inc ($496k), East Mountain High School Foundation ($425k).
- Does Excellent Schools New Mexico fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Excellent Schools New Mexico?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, Louis Calder Foundation, Albuquerque Community Foundation.
- Where is Excellent Schools New Mexico based?
- Excellent Schools New Mexico is based in NM.
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