How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in New Mexico?

Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in New Mexico, currently Burnett Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Mexico from out of state.

How much grant money goes to arts and culture in New Mexico?

$352M reached 409 arts and culture organizations in New Mexico, from 1,113 funders. 31% came from funders also based in New Mexico.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · New Mexico · Arts and culture

Who funds arts and culture in New Mexico

$352M reached 409 arts and culture organizations in New Mexico, from 1,113 funders, with no single one dominating.

$352M

granted

409

organizations

31%

from in-state

The short version

1,113 funders gave $352M to 409 arts and culture organizations in New Mexico across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
31% of that came from funders also based in New Mexico; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of arts and culture in New Mexico is Burnett Foundation, at $48M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, at $65M.

Largest funders of arts and culture in New Mexico

The funders giving the most to arts and culture organizations in New Mexico, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Burnett Foundation$48M 2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$28M 3Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation$21M 4American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc$14M 5The Chicago Community Trust$9M 6Museum of New Mexico Foundation$9M 7Santa Fe Community Foundation$7M 8The Kbk Foundation$7M 9Florence Dibell Bartlett$6M 10Albuquerque Community Foundation$6M

Arts and culture organizations in New Mexico that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

399 other arts and culture organizations$134M

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum$65M The Santa Fe Opera$38M Institute of American Indian Arts & Alaska Native$28M Museum of New Mexico Foundation$17M Institute of American Indian Arts Trust$17M Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation$16M

How to find arts and culture funders in New Mexico

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Start with the funders already active in New Mexico
The funders giving the most to arts and culture in New Mexico are Burnett Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation. A funder already writing arts and culture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
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Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
69% of arts and culture money in New Mexico comes from funders elsewhere, so national arts and culture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New Mexico.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in New Mexico?: Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in New Mexico, currently Burnett Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Mexico from out of state.
Who is the largest arts and culture funder in New Mexico?: Burnett Foundation gives the most to arts and culture organizations in New Mexico, $48M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in New Mexico?: $352M reached 409 arts and culture organizations in New Mexico, from 1,113 funders. 31% came from funders also based in New Mexico.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.