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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 FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$540k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$4.3MYouth Development$301kHousing & Shelter$150kArts & Culture$26kPhilanthropy$8k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $841k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ABQ School of Excellence Fnd$540,000
Equip New Mexico$300,812
Solare Collegiate Charter Sch$50,000
Albuquerque Collegiate Inc$50,000
East Mountain High School Fnd$25,000
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Vista College Preparatory: $60k → 11%BES: $30k → 16%Achievement First Inc: $145k → 20%Mission Achiev and Success: $300k → 10%National Dance Institute NM: $26k → 12%Cottonwood Classical Fnd: $396k → 14%SGMS Foundation: $100k → 20%Aequitas Education: $250k → 32%Mission Achievement and Succe: $155k → 10%Homewise: $150k → 12%Cottonwood Classical Fnd: $17k → 14%Aequitas Education: $150k → 32%Mission Achiev and Success: $33k → 10%THRIVE Community School Fnd: $81k → 12%Friends of Montessori Fnd: $68k → 14%Aequitas Education: $8k → 32%Mission Achievement and Succe: $8k → 10%THRIVE Community School Fnd: $23k → 12%Altura Schools: $321k → 14%Turquoise Trail Charter Schoo: $318k → 12%Altura Schools: $8k → 14%Turquoise Trail Charter Schoo: $8k → 12%ABQ School of Excellence Fnd: $540k → 14%East Mountain High School Fnd: $200k → 14%East Mountain High School Fnd: $200k → 14%East Mountain High School Fnd: $25k → 14%Voz Collegiate Foundation: $182k → 14%Voz Collegiate Foundation: $23k → 14%Equip New Mexico: $301k → 14%Voz Collegiate Foundation: $23k → 14%Albuquerque Collegiate Inc: $100k → 14%Albuquerque Collegiate Inc: $82k → 14%Albuquerque Collegiate Inc: $68k → 14%Albuquerque Collegiate Inc: $50k → 14%Albuquerque Collegiate Inc: $23k → 14%Albuquerque Collegiate Inc: $13k → 14%Solare Collegiate Foundation: $150k → 14%Solare Collegiate Foundation: $62k → 14%Solare Collegiate Charter Sch: $50k → 14%Solare Collegiate Foundation: $45k → 14%Solare Collegiate Foundation: $8k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 10 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$3.4M
$579k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+18%

Still filing today

90%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $841k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • EM
    EAST MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $425k · revenue +172% · 52% of their budget
  • CC
    COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $412k · revenue +19%
  • AE
    Aequitas Education
    3× · 2019–2024 · $408k · revenue +91% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • HI
    HOMEWISE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +78%
  • AF
    ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $145k · revenue +19%
  • SF
    SGMS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -95% · 56% of their budget
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
Siembra Leadership High School Foundation
Education
2
Academy Charter School

Academy charter school (the "school") was formed in 1993 pursuant to the colorado charter schools act to form and operate a charter school.

Education
3
Las Vegas Collegiate

To provide high quality academics to k-5 students

Education
4
Nm Building Education Foundation
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5
Incline Schools Academic Excellence Foundation
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6
Santa Fe Texas Education Foundation Inc

The Santa Fe Texas Education Foundation CULTIVATES and NURTURES the culture of generosity in our community, IGNITES exemplary experiences for every student and teacher, and INSPIRES the achievement of lifelong success.

Education
7
Montessori Education Centre Charter School

Commitment to development of the whole child by providing students a well-rounded, individualized education and development experience that is grounded on Montessori principles

Education
8
Sdccs Foundation

Provide support to san diego cooperative charter schools (sdccs).

Education
9
Bosque School

To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.

Education
10
Cochise Community Development Corp

To be a collaborative academic community focused on scholar learning and achievement, and to set high expectations and provide each scholar with the essential tools to succeed.

Education
11
Explore Academy Foundation

To support the mission and activities of explore academy charter school, a new mexico governmental authorized charter school.

Education
12
Chase Collegiate School Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Solare Collegiate Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Voz Collegiate Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 19 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALBUQUERQUE SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION: $540,000 · EducationALBUQUERQUE SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATIONMISSION ACHIEVEMENT AND SUCCESS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $495,833 · EducationMISSION ACHIEVEMENT AND SUCCESS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCEAST MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $425,000 · EducationEAST MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONCOTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC: $412,400 · EducationCOTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INCAequitas Education: $408,333 · EducationAequitas EducationALBUQUERQUE COLLEGIATE INC: $335,579 · EducationALBUQUERQUE COLLEGIATE INCTURQUOISE TRAIL CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $325,833 · EducationTURQUOISE TRAIL CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATIONSOLARE COLLEGIATE FOUNDATION: $315,013 · EducationSOLARE COLLEGIATE FOUNDATIONVoz Collegiate Foundation: $226,558 · EducationVoz Collegiate FoundationACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $145,000 · Education+5 more: $362,022 · Education+5 moreEquip New Mexico: $300,812 · OtherEquip New …HOMEWISE INC: $150,000 · OtherHOMEWISE I…Altura Schools: $329,356 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $25,860 · Arts & Culture
Education$3,991,571Other$450,812Philanthropy$329,356Arts & Culture$25,860

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALBUQUERQUE SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION: $540,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetMISSION ACHIEVEMENT AND SUCCESS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $495,833 over 4y, 23% of budgetEAST MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $425,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetCOTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC: $412,400 over 2y, 21% of budgetAequitas Education: $408,333 over 3y, 32% of budgetALBUQUERQUE COLLEGIATE INC: $335,579 over 6y, 97% of budgetAltura Schools: $329,356 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetSOLARE COLLEGIATE FOUNDATION: $315,013 over 5y, 26% of budgetVoz Collegiate Foundation: $226,558 over 3y, 15% of budgetHOMEWISE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $145,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVE Community School Foundation: $103,622 over 2y, 13% of budgetSGMS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetFriends of Montessori Foundation: $68,400 over 1y, 64% of budgetVISTA COLLEGE PREPARATORY INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $25,860 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Charter Fund Inc D/B/…Louis Calder Foundati…Albuquerque Community…New Schools FundThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth FundCO19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Excellent Schools New Mexico funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Excellent Schools New Mexico. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Achievement First Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 19 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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